Ciné-Club Online Discussion: Les Parfums

At Online Activity via Zoom

For our first ciné-club of the year we will discuss Les Parfums, a French comedy directed by Grégory Magne.

Anne Walberg is a celebrity in the perfume world. She creates fragrances and sells her incredible talent to companies of all kinds. She lives as a diva, selfish, and well-tempered. Guillaume is her new driver and the only one who is not afraid to stand up to her. No doubt this is the reason why she does not fire him.

It’s February: fall in love with these 2 delightful characters!

Join Barbara for an online discussion after you watch - at your leisure - Les Parfums.

The movie is available on Kanopy (free). To get more information on how to access Kanopy, please email our Cultural Manager at culture@frenchlibrary.org.

Members

Free

Non-members

Synopsis

A divorced father, Guillaume Favre (Call my agent’s Grégory Montel) is desperate to get shared custody of his daughter. He needs to keep his job as a chauffeur to pay for somewhere better to live, with room for his daughter. He is assigned a new client: a gifted perfumer Anne Walberg (Best Actress César Winner Emmanuelle Devos) whose skills at constructing and identifying scents are matched by her egotism, poor treatment of her drivers, and lack of tact. Unlike most people, Guillaume stands up to Anne, and she requests him to be her sole driver as she lands a series of jobs requiring her skills across France.