Elisa Movie Review 1994

Teenaged sexpot Marie (Paradis) has grown up in a reform school, thanks to her mother Elisa's suicide. Along with friends Solange (Courau) and Ahmed (Sall), Marie spends her time on the Paris streets shoplifting and flirting. Obsessed with finding her long-gone father, Marie discovers that Lebovitch (Depardieu), the writer of the popular song "Elisa," is daddy dearest. He's now a drunk, living on a fishing island, and Marie sets out to right the wrongs she believes drove her mother to suicide. Based on the song by Serge Gainsbourg. French with subtitles.

Distribution

Not Yet Released

Available on VHS
Running time 111 minutes.
Originally from French.

Cast and Crew

Genres

Bad Dads, Suicide, Adapted from a Song, Paris

Screenplay

Jean Becker, Fabrice Carazo

Cast

Vanessa Paradis, Gerard Depardieu, Clotilde Courau, Sekkou Sall, Florence Thomassin

Cinematography

Etienne Becker

Director

Jean Becker

Music

Zbigniew Preisner

Awards

Cesar 1995: Support. Actress (Courau), Score.