La Belle Personne

Christophe Honoré

IndieLisboa 2009 •

France, Fiction, 2008, 93′

16-year-old Junie finds herself in the same class as her cousin Mathias, who introduces her to his friends. All the boys want to date Junie, and she chooses the quietest among them, Otto Clèves. But soon after, she encounters the great love of her life in her Italian teacher, Nemours. The passion that burns between them is doomed. A contemporary adaptation of Madame de La Fayette’s novel, “The Princess of Clèves”, transferring the action from the court of Henry II to modern day Paris.