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AKA: Stepfather
Year: 1981
Directed by: Bertrand Blier
Starring: Patrick Dewaere (Remi), Ariel Besse (Marion), Maurice Ronet (Marion’s biological Dad Charly)
Country: France
Language: French (English subtitles)
Runtime: 01:59:12
Genres: Old-Young, Incest
Plot – Spoilers:
Remi is a cynical depressed pianist who works at a posh French restaurant and is married to a small-time model Martine who has recently taken up lingerie shoots to offset their precarious financial situation. Remi is hitting 30 and is convinced he’s a failure with no hope of redeeming a career that was full of promise at a younger age. Their marriage too has hit rock bottom with the two hardly ever seeing each other – as Remi puts it, When I get home at night, you’re asleep. When you awake, I’m asleep.
Martine has a 14 year-old daughter Marion from a previous marriage to night club owner Charly. Marion has been raised by Remi from the age of 6 and so when Martine suddenly dies in an accident, Marion opts to stay on with Remi despite Charly offering to care for her. The Remi-Marion relationship from Remi’s point of view initially appears non-sexual. He looks at her fatherly and sees in her innocence, someone who cares and acknowledges him and his music that few give a damn about. But soon things get weird and complicated when Marion unconditionally expresses her love for him in a non-daughterly way….
Favourite Scenes:
1. Remi has taken Marion moving out badly and is sitting lonely and miserable in his apartment when she returns. Can’t even be miserable in peace is his state of mind when he hears the bell ringing. The fact that she has chosen him over her biological Dad gives him a new zest for life and he even perks up, especially when she asks him to fight for her. It makes him feel like a man again and feel wanted. When Charly arrives to take Marion back, the two get into an awkward fight that’s funny; but what’s funnier is when they sit together, bruised and hilariously sheepish as Marion patches them up.
2. When Marion unburdens herself to Remi:
Over the course of the interactions where Marion lets Remi know about her sexual urges, his primary issue is not that she is like a daughter whom he therefore cannot imagine being sexually attracted to. Rather, it’s about their age difference and what Martine, if she were alive, would have had to say about the relationship. In fact, just before Marion tells him her feelings for the first time, you can clearly see him checking her out as she walks away from his bed. So it’s fairly possible that Remi had been attracted to her as she grew up but suppressed these feelings out of guilt and shame.
The first two times when Marion talks to Remi about her feelings are separated by a short scene of Remi playing the piano with uncharacteristic wild abandon, which is kind of funny.
Remi, a pianist with killer chops and zero confidence, finds himself in a quandary when his wife, who no longer loves him, is killed in a tragic car accident. Remi has to break the news to his step daughter Marion and figure out where she will live, with him or with her real father. 14 year old Marion begins to tantalize and taunt 29 year old Remi with sexual innuendo and he eventually succumbs to her charms. As their relationship progresses it becomes more creepy, disturbing and complicated leading to it’s inevitable doomed conclusion. The final shot of the film points to future debauchery. This is the 2nd time I’ve seen this film. It’s a little slow in spots and a bit boring at times but it’s a good drama. 3 and a half stars.
Um belo filme só que no final ficou várias questões em aberto Remi era um cara que tem uma tendência a ser um sociopata que usa as mulheres que são divorciada e tem uma filha parece como o cara disse no comentário no foi um acidente ele nem tinha dinheiro pra pagar a gasolina e o corre tava sem freio será que não teria sido planejado e quando a menina chega da escola ele demorou a dizer que a mãe dela morreu. O pai viu os dois se beijando e não falou nada eu acho que e cultural da frança tipo o filme lolita nota7 um final e tem plot twist
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Ariel Besse was 16 during the filming of this movie
That’s fucked up why would someone let a 14 year old do that
Why am I so sad after watching that movie?? like very sad!!>> Does anyone have the same issue ??
Anyone who has seen this should be able to tell the writer and director was very respectful in regarding his controversial subject matter!
A effedup movie I saw on TV when I was a child. It filled the wet dreams of my early teenage years for a while.
Ariel Besse’s parents sued the distributors of the film poster because it showed her bare breasts when she was 15.
Marion is so sexy and hot. I would fuck her everyday, twice a day. Impregnate her and married her. Her beautiful little budding breasts are so arousing. I masturbated to all her nude scenes
This is the way life should really be without labels or fear of legality. Without a doubt, if I was in his shoes…I would have done the same.
A beautiful love story! Great movie!
Rest in peace, Ariel Besse (1965-2022) aka Marion. She retired from acting shortly after this film, and died at the age of 56 from unknown causes.
Such a brief appearance from the mother and the beetle. Quite a predicament!
puberty is the start point of sexual attraction, the original meaning of childhood is the stage before puberty. biologically, and logically there is no such thing that children can have physicall attraction only to eachother but not to adults, usually the age of consent ment that those under that age can never have physical contact regardless the age of partner, the first legal ages set were even 10_12 which suits the original meaning of childhood,so either sex is always natural desire regardless the age gap crap, or its alaways a bad thing, stop the discriminative idiot age gap crap.
I had no right in having this much fun with this movie, considering, you know…
Anyway, wow, what a ride. Gotta appreciate a good story!
It ticked all the boxes: excellent filmmaking, captivating soundtrack, and stellar acting.
Love the movie, every minute of it from start to finish. And gonna think of it for a while just like the movie lolita.
The relationship of the kid and her step father excites me.
I think this is not pedo cos the girl is 15 and is already close to legal age
dumb bastards
Hello. Firstly, he set this up from the beginning. He never loved his wife, he was always after her daughter. And if you watch the scene when she crashes her car, he says “ I liked her face “ or something to this effect. But he uses past tense. He knew that her brakes were cut and she would get into the accident. It was all set up. And then when she came onto him, he knew he had to play it as if he didn’t want it to build the tension to a fever pitch. Why else would he pine over her not being with him. This main character is one of the smoothest, most manipulative and cunning main characters in film history. This movie is incredible. I will simply not forget it’s plot and will strongly encourage others to watch it.
julien bichet if u see this i fucking love you
Great film!
I’d actually read this in a psychology book. Teens usually feel attraction to their parents those years. Yes, it’s wrong what Remi did and he can go to jail for it but it’s also a sad thought that we, humans can’t always have what we wanted.
wow, i loved this film. This will take up some space in my brain for quite a while, the last scenes makes you second guess Remi’s intentions and what he really wanted
just because some teenage girls seem like they are more mature and appear ready to be sexual in a adult way dosent mean adults should be having sex with them. A lot of young girls and boys think they know what they are doing when they are young and grow up to regret it. its up to adults to try and steer them in the right direction not take advantage of them. there seems to be a lot of pedo apologists on this site who think its close minded to say what im saying but that is just a cope. if you truly believe you love someone that is not of age you would wait until they are. if you cant you are sick. you are scared that in the time that they are growing up they will have realized youre a fuckin loser cuz you are. youre not “open minded” you are a small minded ape and you will never be happy and dont deserve to be. i feel sorry for people who are actually sick in the head but pedophilia is becoming way to normalized in our society and people dont even realize it. if you are attracted to kids and have no self control you need to do yourself and the world a favor and put a gun in your mouth and pull the trigger. no one should allow themselves or be allowed to go around ruining peoples lives and thats exactly what happens when you act… Read more »
I think we all very sensitive to who is 18 who is not. She was ready for love and the transition from being a child to being a teenager has been already started. Legal age should be 15 not 18.
I think that some of you are missing the point here. The film is about man who has sexual relations with a child. Throughout the movie it clouds your moral judgement because it seems that the girl is driving the relationship. However in the very last scenes it becomes abundantly clear what is going on. Moral judgement reinstated.
Great film, the acting really helps sale the story. The premise makes it seem like it would just be squicky, but it’s actually very sensitive and beautiful. I couldn’t help but feel for Remi and also Marion
Es una pelicula muy triste que recoje sentimientoos encontrados,la verdad la recomiendo