Beau Pere (1981)
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.
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
But in the end, its wrong from society eyes.
Remi did choose a woman his age and its a good decision because marion must live her life, a normal life.
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
stop stalking me
what the fuck
lol
Lmao 😆
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.
But its not her father
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’m assuming you haven’t actually seen the movie as your comment was taken entirely out of context. I wouldn’t say this is a film about pedophilia and if you actually had taken the time to watch it you’d understand what I mean. Also, if you are so moral, this probably isn’t the website for you… I would elaborate further, but I believe both Pieter and OJ made very good points and I don’t think I could add much to what they have said. I’d also like to say that I am not a defender of pedophiles or a pedophile myself, rather a defender of sexually frustrated, sexually repressed teenage girls (I was one, once, and I’m sure I’m not the only person who has felt that way). It’s unfair to assume that girls in these situations are always victims, or that young girls are too stupid or ignorant to know what they want. Watch some Catherine Breillat films (36 Fillette, Une vraie jeune fille for instance) and you might understand what I’m trying to say. Also, there is never reason to tell someone to kill themself, It’s quite a pathetic retaliation actually. I can’t stand these sort of petty attacks. These days it seems that instead of criticising somebody constructively (if that makes sense) people just call each other names like they’re still in the school playground. I see it a lot on this website. ‘Fucking loser!’ ‘Cunt-faced whore!’ ‘Sick fucking bastard!’ Based on the way your comment was phrased… Read more »
ur weird af
and you are extremely boring, start to think about anything that sorrounds you. You are on a website called effedupmovies and call people out for being weird, how uninspired do you need to be
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.
how would you like to die?
Get over yourself you pathetic keyboard warrior.
I like your username, hope you live up to it
do you know that when gays have been fighting for their rights there was a tendention discovered; people who were the most anti-gay happened to be gay and wanted to do everything against gays just so they don’t be associated with the community. I’d say it is extremely interesting that you’re so captivated to hate pedophilia, you must spend a lot of time thinking about sexual relations involving underage people, right?
“A tendention discovered” Oh really, you fucking imbecilic clown tool. You believe everything you read? Even with all the exposure of total bullshit propaganda pushed by radical, lying scumbags only to serve their sick and twisted narratives? And you can’t even consider that it is obviously VERY likely that the sick FUCKS who want to destroy immature, overly-emotional and unstable, underage CHILDREN’s LIVES for their own warped desire to get a NUT OFF… would DEFINITELY fabricate such BULLSHIT – and here you are so fucking braindead that you uncuriously suck that kool-aid down with the biggest straw that you can find. IDIOTS like you still deny that the deep state exists, and hillary’s campaign, the DNC and the FBI and CIA made up every lie about Trump for five+ years now, and the radical left-wing media (and now the fake right-wing) willingly propagated the fuck out of it 24/7. You’re what is called a sock puppet tool-bag. Btw, you fucking retarded stooge; there’s no such word as tendention. Did you mean tendency or propensity or proclivity, you fucking twit? And I notice that you’re only able to steal the left-tards tactics of deferral as character assassination, which is what weak-minded dumb-asses rely on. As most unintelligent people do, you made ASSUMPTIONS and SPECULATIONS… and then tried to turn them into inferences and accusations… all over the place. I did not. That’s because my IQ is most likely at least 25 points higher than yours. One more thing; “so they don’t… Read more »
Oj ur gross
The movie is about a young girl experiencing love, sexuality and obsession for the first time. Remi is handling all this all very sensitively, to an extend. The movie is about the taboo of adolescent sexuality, just like Lolita was and still is. Young girls grow to be sexual beings much earlier than boys and they experience it most of the time in most brutal ways… People who throw accusations at people here who try to understand this social dilemma and watch this movie from that perspective is downright stupid and says more about those who accuse then about those who acknowledge the issue.
Wow.. just fuckin wow. I have a bag of hammers WAAAAAY more intelligent than you. AND it is NOT an excuse-making, sick and twisted pedophile like you.
Well read some of all morons answers here its obvoius some “realy” r .
But ok , sensetive to 18 nope , who say its 18. Sensetive to legal low age yes. 18 is In America and kinda supriced Thailand . In Norway its 16 ,sweden 15 , Spain 13 – And for those shout out pedo to ya just for question some …. The real “pedo” pope vaktikat its 12…
Also i was in carribean yea was 16 . But as long still past 12 it was just a fine . Sure guess worked for the locals – A fine like a month pay for them .But a foreigner mabe 1 weak , a rich one few day … what i in basic try say . For a “pedo” with cash who realy wanted he could kinda with that law fuck a 12 year + and pay the fine with a smile – .
How many strokes did you have when you were typing this, or were you just born retarded?
Mate… great comment, couldn’t agree more but PLEASE stop using my Avatar. Don’t want to hunt you down
Kys
Maybe some day you will loose your virginity and find a woman crazy and dirty enough to have a baby with you. And I hope it will be a baby girl… and by 15 she will be gang banging on the streets in exchange of drugs. But hey, she will be an adult and nothing you can do about it!
And you were critiquing someone else for their inability to write a sensible, cogent and concise comment??? You’re a fucking IDIOT. Just for one; the word you haven’t grasped yet, but should have learned in the third grade is “lose”, not “LOOSE”, you fucking monkey-brained dipshit.
this is the only good comment you have ever made
Coming from one of the dumbest douche-bags on this site, that is not an endorsement to be proud of. BUT I wouldn’t be surprised if that IDIOT you’re replying to has made one good comment somewhere, sometime.. whereas I doubt you EVER have. AND your agreeing with his STUPID take on this thing shows that you both are dumber than a pencil.
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.
I could see from the beginning when he was so obsessed her not getting a hold of him, picking up the phone calling her….it’s one thing “normal” step parent, to be healthy obsessed with how her transition is going her health and just happy to talk to her, not taking all their now loneliness and all that guilt on a 14 year olds shoulder, in a sense manipulating and twisting in what should just be school and “normal” 14 year old responsibilties and adding the back false thoughts of them needing to substitute the intimate position of the lost parent….
Are you completely fucked up on crack… or are you an imbecile who doesn’t possess the ability to write a single intelligible thought at even a third grade level?
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
Hey, they just came up with a brand new word – about 2800 years ago. It is “sell”. SELL the story, you fucking retard. And WTF is “squicky”?? Holy FUCK, reading posts from the greatest gathering of uneducated baboons makes my brain hurt. I mourn my country and my world. I GUARANTEE you that I could write far better than nearly everyone on this website (and almost everywhere I look on the world-wide interwebs) when I was in the fourth grade, 57 years ago. WTF happened to our educational systems?? I did notice that in my sophomore or junior year in HS, they hired a pack of left-wing hippy buffoons with wing-nut “teaching methods” that would certainly DUMB DOWN the citizenry. Was that well-planned?? Ya know; to control the masses? I’m voting “yea”.
Es una pelicula muy triste que recoje sentimientoos encontrados,la verdad la recomiendo