{"id":16420,"date":"2011-04-01T13:46:49","date_gmt":"2011-04-01T20:46:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=16420"},"modified":"2020-12-27T16:06:17","modified_gmt":"2020-12-27T23:06:17","slug":"beau-pere-1981","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=16420","title":{"rendered":"Beau Pere (1981)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>&#8220;We&#8217;re like two people who have come through a storm; we have to recover.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<table>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Beau-Pere-Poster.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Beau-Pere-Poster-195x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"195\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-60035\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Beau-Pere-Poster-195x300.png 195w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Beau-Pere-Poster-664x1024.png 664w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Beau-Pere-Poster-83x128.png 83w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Beau-Pere-Poster-175x270.png 175w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Beau-Pere-Poster.png 705w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 195px) 100vw, 195px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Synopsis:<\/strong><br \/>\nWhen his wife (Nicole Garcia) dies in a car accident, a grieving man (Patrick Dewaere) must deal with his increasingly seductive 14-year-old stepdaughter (Ariel Besse), who professes to be in love with him.\n<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p>\n<strong>Genres, Themes, Actors, and Directors:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Bertrand Blier Films<\/li>\n<li>Coming of Age<\/li>\n<li>French Films<\/li>\n<li>Incest and Incestuous Undertones<\/li>\n<li>May-December Romance<\/li>\n<li>Widows and Widowers<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Response to Peary&#8217;s Review: <\/strong><br \/>\nPeary is spot-on in his review of this typically provocative outing by Bertrand Blier, France&#8217;s most anarchic portrayer of unconventional romance. He notes that, following the (relatively) mainstream success of Blier&#8217;s Oscar-winning romantic comedy <a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=7546\"><em>Get Out Your Handkerchiefs<\/em> (1978)<\/a>, Blier &#8220;really test[ed] his audience&#8221; by turning <em>&#8230; Handkerchief<\/em>&#8216;s tale on its head, portraying an affair between a grown man and a teenage girl rather than a grown woman and a boy &#8212; only this time, as Peary points out, &#8220;the comedy is not so obvious&#8221;. Indeed, I can&#8217;t quite bring myself to categorize this as any kind of a comedy, though there are occasional, subtle hints at Blier&#8217;s trademark satire &#8212; most noticeably during a later scene when Besse&#8217;s father (Maurice Ronet) comes to visit his daughter, now in the full throes of a sexual affair with Dewaere. <\/p>\n<p>In his analysis, Peary argues that <em>Beau Pere<\/em>, while &#8220;not exploitative&#8221;, is nonetheless &#8220;dishonest&#8221;, given that &#8220;anytime Blier wants Dewaere and Besse to become more deeply involved, he writes words of seduction for Besse &#8212; not Dewaere &#8212; and has her deliver them in a mature manner, so we always know the affair is her idea&#8221;. In addition, Blier makes sure to show us &#8220;innocent scenes of Dewaere and Besse together before Besse&#8217;s mother was killed and [Besse] quickly evolved from daughter to wife and lover&#8221;. Whether one considers this &#8220;dishonest&#8221; or merely strategic screenwriting, it all leads to palpable sympathy on the part of audience members, who likely will find it difficult to blame Dewaere for eventually giving in to the temptations of his aggressively forthright &#8212; but understandably confused &#8212; stepdaughter. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Redeeming Qualities and Moments: <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A provocative yet surprisingly tasteful script<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Beau-Pere-Still.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Beau-Pere-Still.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"272\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-60033\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Beau-Pere-Still.png 640w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Beau-Pere-Still-300x128.png 300w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Beau-Pere-Still-128x54.png 128w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Beau-Pere-Still-604x257.png 604w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Must See? <\/strong><br \/>\nNo, though it&#8217;s certainly worth seeking out for at least one-time viewing. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Links: <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0082054\/\">IMDb entry<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/movies.nytimes.com\/movie\/review?res=9505E2D81038F93AA35753C1A967948260\">NY Times Original Review<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cinematicthreads.com\/review.php?id=1021&#038;ltr=B\">Cinematic Threads Capsule Review<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re like two people who have come through a storm; we have to recover.&#8221; Synopsis: When his wife (Nicole Garcia) dies in a car accident, a grieving man (Patrick Dewaere) must deal with his increasingly seductive 14-year-old stepdaughter (Ariel Besse), who professes to be in love with him. Genres, Themes, Actors, and Directors: Bertrand Blier Films Coming of Age French Films Incest and Incestuous Undertones May-December Romance Widows and Widowers Response to Peary&#8217;s Review: Peary is spot-on in his review&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=16420\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-responses-to-peary"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16420","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16420"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16420\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60036,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16420\/revisions\/60036"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}