''Big Is Beautiful'' (french: Mince alors!) is a 2012 French comedy film, directed by

Charlotte de Turckheim Anne-Charlotte de Turckheim (born 5 April 1955) is a French actress, screenwriter, comedian and film producer. Born in Montereau-Fault-Yonne, Seine-et-Marne, France, the daughter of Françoise Husson and Arnaud de Turckheim, a member of a noble ...

and starring

Lola Dewaere Lola Dewaere, also known as Lola Céleste Marie Bourdeaux (born 4 December 1979 in Boulogne-Billancourt, Hauts-de-Seine), is a French actor well known for her portrayal of the resourceful and empathetic police commander Raphaëlle Coste in the te ...

Victoria Abril Victoria Mérida Rojas (born 4 July 1959), better known as Victoria Abril, is a Spanish film actress and singer based in France. She is possibly best known to international audiences for her performance in the film ''Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down!'' by ...

and

Catherine Hosmalin Catherine Hosmalin is a French actress. Personal life While promoting the movie "Mince Alors", Hosmalin told to Laurent Ruquier Laurent Hugues Emmanuel Ruquier (; born 24 February 1963) is a French television presenter, radio host and com ...

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 Brides-les-Bains () is a commune in the Savoie department in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region in south-eastern France. It was an Olympic Village for the 1992 Winter Olympics, based in Albertville, France. There is easy accessibility via Eurostar ...

, 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

as Nina *

as Sophie *

as Emilie *

Grégory Fitoussi Grégory Fitoussi (born 13 August 1976) is a French actor best known for appearing in television series such as ''Spiral'', ''Spin'' and ''Mr Selfridge''. Personal life He was born in Paris to Pied-Noir Sephardi Jewish parents. His parents opene ...

as Gaspard *

Mehdi Nebbou Mehdi Nebbou (born 10 January 1974) is a French actor. Biography Nebbou was born on 10 January 1974 in Bayonne, Pyrénées-Atlantiques, France, to a German mother and an Algerian father. His brother is the film director Safy Nebbou. He started ...

as Doctor Hachemi *

Julia Piaton Julia Piaton (born 29 January 1985) is a French actress. She is mainly known for playing the role of Odile in ''Serial (Bad) Weddings'' and Aure Hazan in ''Family Business A family business is a commercial organization in which decision-making ...

as Roxanne * Raphaël Lenglet as Yussuf *

Dominique Besnehard Dominique Besnehard (; born 5 February 1954) is a French actor, film producer, casting director, writer and talent manager. He has appeared in more than 80 films and television shows since 1975. He starred in the 1983 film '' À nos amours'', wh ...

as Antoine * Martin Daquin as Thomas * Pauline Lefèvre as Natacha *

Anouk Aimée Nicole Françoise Florence Dreyfus (born 27 April 1932), known professionally as Anouk Aimée () or Anouk, is a French film actress, who has appeared in 70 films since 1947, having begun her film career at age 14. In her early years, she studi ...

as Mom *

as Christelle *

Pascal Légitimus Pascal Légitimus (born 13 March 1959) is a French actor, comedian and theatre director. He is a member of the famous French humour band Les Inconnus Les Inconnus ("The Unknowns") are a French trio of humourists consisting of Didier Bourdon, ...

as Freddy *

Christine Citti Christine Citti (born 26 October 1962 in Paris) is a French actress, director and writer. Personal life Her brother, Marc Citti, is also actor. Her father was mayor of Ramoulu in the Loiret Loiret (; ) is a department in the Centre-Val d ...

as Roxanne's mother *

Frédéric Chau Frédéric Chau (born 6 June 1977) is a Vietnam-born French actor of Chinese-Cambodian descent. Life and career Frédéric Chau was born in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, to parents of the Chinese minority in Cambodia. In 1977, while his mother ...

as Baptiste *

Claudine Wilde Claudine Wilde (born 15 March 1967Eigenangabe des Geburtsdatums auf Webseite
) is a G ...

as Gundrun *

Émilie Gavois-Kahn Émilie Gavois-Kahn is a French actress. Theater Filmography References External links * French film actresses 21st-century French actresses Actresses from Paris Living people 1978 births {{france-film-actor-stub ...

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 Pablo Pauly (born 24 January 1991) is a French actor. Theater Filmography References External links

* 1991 births Living people French male film actors {{France-actor-stub ...

as The driver

References

External links

* 2012 films 2010s French-language films 2012 comedy films French comedy films 2010s French films {{2010s-France-film-stub