''L'Étudiante'' ( en, The Student) is a 1988 French

romantic comedy Romantic comedy (also known as romcom or rom-com) is a subgenre of comedy and slice of life fiction, focusing on lighthearted, humorous plot lines centered on romantic ideas, such as how true love is able to surmount most obstacles. In a typica ...

film directed by

Claude Pinoteau Claude Pinoteau (25 May 1925 – 5 October 2012) was a French film director and scriptwriter. Born in Boulogne-Billancourt, Hauts de Seine, Île-de-France, France. He died in Neuilly-sur-Seine, aged 87. (in French) His sister was the actress ...

and starring

Sophie Marceau Sophie Marceau (; born Sophie Danièle Sylvie Maupu, 17 November 1966) is a French actress. As a teenager, she achieved popularity with her debut films ''La Boum'' (1980) and ''La Boum 2'' (1982), receiving a César Award for Most Promising Act ...

Vincent Lindon Vincent Lindon (born 15 July 1959) is a French actor and filmmaker. For his role in the film '' The Measure of a Man'' (2015), Lindon won Best Actor at the 2015 Cannes Film Festival, Best Actor at the 41st César Awards and the IFFI Best Act ...

and Élisabeth Vitali. Written by Claude Pinoteau and Danièle Thompson, the film is about an ambitious teaching student, busy preparing for her final exams, whose studies are interrupted by a passionate affair with a jazz musician. The film was released to French theaters on 10 October 1988 and sold 1,583,067 admissions in France.

Plot

Twenty-one-year-old Valentine (

) is a part-time teacher preparing for her all-important final teaching examinations. She meets Edouard (

), a jazz musician who aspires to be a composer. Despite their different schedules and career agenda, they engage in a passionate affair. Valentine compares her relationship with Edouard to the dry dissertation of Molière's ''The Misanthrope'' in her oral exams at the Sorbonne.

Cast

as Valentine Ezquerra *

as Ned * Élisabeth Vitali as Celine * Jean-Claude Leguay as Charly * Elena Pompei as Patricia * Roberto Attias as Philippe * Brigitte Chamarande as Claire * Christian Pereira as Serge * Beppe Chierici as L'appariteur * Nathalie Mann as Alexandra * Anne Macina as Laura * Janine Souchon as La dame au chien * Virginie Demians * Hugues Leforestier as Patron du bouchon * Jacqueline Noëlle * Marc-André Brunet as Victor

References

External links

* * 1988 films French romantic comedy films 1980s French-language films Films directed by Claude Pinoteau Films scored by Vladimir Cosma 1980s French films 1988 romantic comedy films {{1980s-France-film-stub