Faustine et le Bel Été

Faustine et le Bel Été is a 1972 French romantic drama film directed by Nina Companéez.^[2] It was screened out of competition at the 1972 Cannes Film Festival.^[3]

Faustine et le Bel Été
Film poster
Directed by	Nina Companéez
Written by	Nina Companéez
Produced by	Mag Bodard
Starring	Muriel Catalá
Cinematography	Ghislain Cloquet
Edited by	Raymonde Guyot
Music by	Bruno Rigutto
Distributed by	Cinema International Corporation
Release date	12 January 1972 (1972-01-12)
Running time	98 minutes
Country	France
Language	French
Box office	433,892 admissions (France)[1]

Plot

Faustine, a romantic teenager, decides to spend her summer in the countryside with her grandparents. Upon her arrival she briefly meets a teenager named Joachim and quickly becomes obsessed with his family, spying on them from a distance.

Eventually she begins to integrate herself in to their lives, befriending Joachim's cousins, flirting with Joachim himself and developing a crush on his uncle.

Cast

• Muriel Catalá - Faustine
• Claire Vernet - Claire
• Jacques Spiesser - Florent
• Francis Huster - Joachim
• Georges Marchal - Julien
• Isabelle Adjani - Camille
• Marianne Eggerickx - Ariane
• Maurice Garrel - Jean
• Jacques Weber - Haroun
• Valentine Varela - Marie
• Pierre Plessis - Henri, the Grandfather
• Andrée Tainsy - The Grandmother
• Virginie Thévenet - Student 1
• Isabelle Huppert - Student #2
• César Torres - Haroun's Friend

See also

• Isabelle Huppert on screen and stage