Young & Beautiful

2013 1h 35m FR

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6.5

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★6.5TMDB · 1,355

Drama

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Isabelle, a 17-year-old student, loses her virginity during a quick holiday romance. When she returns home, she begins a secret life as a prostitute for a year.

“Some stories are better left unspoiled.”

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Cast

Marine Vacth
Isabelle
Géraldine Pailhas
Sylvie
Charlotte Rampling
Alice
Frédéric Pierrot
Patrick
Nathalie Richard
Véro
Johan Leysen
Georges
Fantin Ravat
Victor
Laurent Delbecque
Alex

Credits

Behind the camera

Director: François Ozon
Writers: François Ozon
Languages: French, German
Countries: France

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1 / 8

MONEY

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Shot for just $4.7M — micro-budget by Hollywood standards.

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2 / 8

ERA

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Released 13 years ago.

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3 / 8

WORLD

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Dialogue crosses 2 languages: French, German.

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4 / 8

DIRECTOR

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Directed by François Ozon, shot by Pascal Marti. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.

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5 / 8

DIRECTOR

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Original score by Philippe Rombi. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.

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6 / 8

DIRECTOR

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Editor Laure Gardette shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.

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7 / 8

CAST

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Marine Vacth and Géraldine Pailhas and Charlotte Rampling carry the top of the cast.

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8 / 8

WILD

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IMDB entry: tt2752200 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.

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Cinephile deep dive

The take

François Ozon directs. Pascal Marti behind the camera. Philippe Rombi scores. Laure Gardette cuts. Runs lean at under 100 minutes. Profitable at the box office. Produced in France. Dialogue in French, German.

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1Shot for just $4.7M — micro-budget by Hollywood standards.
2Released 13 years ago.
3Dialogue crosses 2 languages: French, German.
4Directed by François Ozon, shot by Pascal Marti. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.
5Original score by Philippe Rombi. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.
6Editor Laure Gardette shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.
7Marine Vacth and Géraldine Pailhas and Charlotte Rampling carry the top of the cast.
8IMDB entry: tt2752200 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.
9Released under 12 different titles around the world.

The technical file

Cinematography: Pascal Marti
Original score: Philippe Rombi
Editing: Laure Gardette
Production design: Katia Wyszkop
Costume design: Pascaline Chavanne
Runtime: 95 min · 1h 35m
Aspect ratio (typical): 1.37:1 (Academy)
Status: Released
Budget: $4,650,000
Box office: $9,757,417
Return: 210% of budget
Original language: FR
Certification (US): NR
IMDB: Young & Beautiful (2013)

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CinemaSerf2026-01-26
★ 6/10
“Isabelle” (Marine Vacth) has been chatting with her younger brother “Victor” (Fantin Ravat) about her losing her virginity. It looks like it’s “Felix” (Lucas Prisor) whom she’s lined up and he duly obliges. He’s not just after sex, though, he wants to engage with her - but she has got what she wanted from him, and now heads to the city where she embarks on a career at €300 an head. She has no real interest in these older men, nor even in the sex - it’s the preamble and the memories that she likes. When one of her regulars has the ultimate orgasm, she has to flee before the police begin to investigate. They are not daft, and are quickly at her door where she, still seventeen, has to explain to her mother just where she got a great wad of Euros from. Furious, she (Géraldine Pailhas) insists that she see a therapist, but might she just be better off with a lad her own age like “Alex” (Laurent Delbecque) or, when she inserts her secret SIM into her phone and a number comes up, might she just go back to her old habits? What this doesn't try to explain is what triggered her behaviour. Her sex with “Felix” was perfectly consensual, if a little perfunctory, so what drove her to hook up with a collection of wealthy older gents? “Isabelle”, as a character, just isn’t developed at all here and so watching her inflagrante delicto with some random men just came across as some softly photographed porn. Vacth delivers confidently, but I couldn’t quite fathom the dynamic between her and her brother, and though she is quite convincing when we see her, Pailhas hasn’t really enough until the last twenty minutes to get her teeth into. It’s always good to see Charlotte Rampling on screen, and her presence towards the end gives us a slightly quirky sense of closure, but I was underwhelmed by this slightly repetitious drama.

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