You're Beautiful, Jeanne (1990)

Original title

T'es belle, Jeanne

Directed by

Robert Ménard

Genre

drama, romance

Country

Canada

Runtime

1h 22m

Rating

4.5 of 10 from 4 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

After an accident leaves her paraplegic, a woman struggles with her failing marriage. She then meets another paraplegic man in rehab and finds a chance at new love.

melancholichopefulintimategroundedslow-burnbittersweetemotionally raw

What happens

You're Beautiful, Jeanne (French: T'es belle, Jeanne) is a Canadian drama film, directed by Robert Ménard and released in 1988. The film stars Marie Tifo as Jeanne, a woman who becomes paraplegic in an accident, resulting in the decline of her relationship with her husband Paul (Pierre Curzi) and the opportunity at new love with Bert (Michel Côté), another paraplegic man she meets in a physical rehabilitation program. The cast also includes Angèle Coutu, Diane Jules, Claude Maher and Marie Michaud. The film premiered in August 1988 at the Montreal World Film Festival, before being broadcast by Télé-Québec on October 29. It also received some theatrical screenings in 1990. The film won five Gémeaux Awards in 1989, for Best Television Drama, Best Actor in a Television Drama (Côté), Best Actress in a Television Drama (Tifo), Best Direction in a Television Drama (Ménard) and Best Script in a Television Drama (Claire Wojas). (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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