Wackily magnetic Fontaine (Emmanuelle Devos) is an anesthesiologist with a serious commitment phobia who goes into full panic mode when her boyfriend proposes to her. She and Michel (Bruno Todeschini) seem well-matched yet her inclination is to aggressively put off answering. Fillières’s third feature exhibited early signs of the playful sometimes surrealist way with which she approached candid portraits of complex women—here a capricious one reeling with doubt and repressed desires. It also showed the director’s great taste in actors: Gentille’s supporting cast includes Lambert Wilson as a patient Fontaine fancies and Bulle Ogier and Michael Lonsdale as her potential parents-in-law.
Good Girl (Gentille)
Sophie Fillières 2005 102min 35mm
Starring Emmanuelle Devos Lambert Wilson Bruno Todeschini
Preceded by the short Nothing (Rien)
Sophie Fillières 1987 5min DCP
For her second short film a docu-fiction shot during her studies at La Fémis film school Fillières explores a curious hole in a pool locker room.
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