Big Is Beautiful | |
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French | Mince alors! |
Directed by | Charlotte de Turckheim |
Written by | Charlotte de Turckheim Gladys Marciano Jeanne Le Guillou |
Produced by | Dominique Besnehard Anne Derré Michel Feller Christine Gozlan |
Starring | Victoria Abril Lola Dewaere Catherine Hosmalin |
Cinematography | Pierre Aïm |
Edited by | Scott Stevenson |
Music by | Éric Neveux |
Production companies | |
Distributed by | UGC Distribution |
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Running time | 100 minutes |
Country | France |
Language | French |
Budget | $8 million [1] |
Box office | $11.6 million [2] |
Big Is Beautiful (French: Mince alors!) is a 2012 French comedy film, directed by Charlotte de Turckheim and starring Lola Dewaere, Victoria Abril and Catherine Hosmalin.
Plot
The young, round and lovely Nina is married to Gaspard, who, unfortunately, rather likes very thin women. The couple move to Paris and Nina is preparing to launch a sophisticated line of swimwear. Because of her love for her husband, Nina accepts his ambiguous gift: a slimming treatment at Brides-les-Bains, considered "the last hope of the fat". There, she makes two flamboyant friends. Sophie, a lawyer from Marseille who likes to control everything, including herself. Émilie is a caregiver whose weight has begun to affect her health and her love life yet her motto remains, "Big is beautiful".
Cast
- Lola Dewaere as Nina
- Victoria Abril as Sophie
- Catherine Hosmalin as Emilie
- Grégory Fitoussi as Gaspard
- Mehdi Nebbou as Doctor Hachemi
- Julia Piaton as Roxanne
- Raphaël Lenglet as Yussuf
- Dominique Besnehard as Antoine
- Martin Daquin as Thomas
- Pauline Lefèvre as Natacha
- Anouk Aimée as Mom
- Charlotte de Turckheim as Christelle
- Pascal Légitimus as Freddy
- Christine Citti as Roxanne's mother
- Frédéric Chau as Baptiste
- Claudine Wilde as Gundrun
- Émilie Gavois-Kahn as Nathalie
- Pascal Liger as Hans
- Valérie Moreau as Isabelle
- Alain Stern as Fred
- Barbara Bolotner as Jessica
- Vincent Bowen as Romain
- Jean-Baptiste Perichon as Léo
- David Salles as Andrej
- Jitka Grekova as Xenia
- Eric Boucher as Jean-Paul
- Alexis Sellam as Monsieur Scrabble
- Pablo Pauly as The driver
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