Fanfan is a 1993 French romantic comedy written and directed by Alexandre Jardin

Alexandre Jardin

Alexandre Jardin is a French writer, and winner of the Prix Femina, 1988, for Le Zèbre.-References:...

, and starring Sophie Marceau

Sophie Marceau

Sophie Marceau is a French actress director, screenwriter, and author. She has appeared in 38 films. As a teenager, Marceau achieved popularity with her debut films La boum and La boum 2 , receiving a César Award for Most Promising Actress...

 and Vincent Perez

Vincent Pérez

Vincent Pérez is a Swiss-born French speaking actor and director. He is best known internationally for playing the title character Ashe Corven in The Crow: City of Angels, and for starring in Queen of the Damned, playing Marius de Romanus...

. This film is based on the director's best-selling novel, which was translated into almost two dozen languages.

Plot

After seeing the initial passion and romance fade into a series of routine and boring relationships, Alexandre (Vincent Perez) concludes that romance ends when sex enters into a relationship. Determined to prevent this from happening with his latest love-interest—a sexy young woman named Fanfan (Sophie Marceau)—he decides that platonic love

Platonic love

Platonic love is a chaste and strong type of love that is non-sexual.-Amor Platonicus:The term amor platonicus was coined as early as the 15th century by the Florentine scholar Marsilio Ficino. Platonic love in this original sense of the term is examined in Plato's dialogue the Symposium, which has...

 is the solution. Despite the wonderful, romantic, and inventive ways Alexandre finds for them to spend time together, Fanfan is left disappointed by his refusal to make love to her. Their exciting relationship becomes jeopardized by Alexandre's unwillingness to change his new approach to love.

Cast

• Sophie Marceau
  Sophie Marceau
  Sophie Marceau is a French actress director, screenwriter, and author. She has appeared in 38 films. As a teenager, Marceau achieved popularity with her debut films La boum and La boum 2 , receiving a César Award for Most Promising Actress...
  
   as Fanfan
• Vincent Perez
  Vincent Pérez
  Vincent Pérez is a Swiss-born French speaking actor and director. He is best known internationally for playing the title character Ashe Corven in The Crow: City of Angels, and for starring in Queen of the Damned, playing Marius de Romanus...
  
   as Alexandre
• Marine Delterme
  Marine Delterme
  Marine Delterme is a French actress, painter, sculptor and former model.-Early life and private life:Marine Delterme was born in Toulouse, France. She grew up in Paris. Her parents worked in the art restoration business...
  
   as Laure
• Gérard Séty as Ti
• Bruno Todeschini
  Bruno Todeschini
  Bruno Todeschini is a Swiss actor.Todeschini studied at L'école supérieure d'art dramatique in Genève and after graduating in 1986, he joined the Théàtre des Amandiers in Nanterre, directed by Patrice Chéreau....
  
   as Paul
• Arielle Séménoff
• Marcel Maréchal as Le père de Fanfan
• Gérard Caillaud as Le père de Laure
• Micheline Presle
  Micheline Presle
  Micheline Presle is a French actress also known in English language films as Micheline Prelle.Born Micheline Nicole Julia Émilienne Chassagne in Paris, she wanted to be an actress from an early age. She took acting classes in her early teens and made her film debut at the age of fifteen in the...
  
   as Maude
• Patrick Aubrée
• Jean-Marie Cornille
• Béatrice Esterle as La mère de Fanfan
• Pierre Gérald
• Thierry Lhermitte
  Thierry Lhermitte
  Thierry Lhermitte is a French actor, known for his comedic roles. He was one of the founders of the comedy troupe Le Splendid in the 1970s, along with, among others, his high-school friends Christian Clavier, Gérard Jugnot, and Michel Blanc...
  
  
• Maxime Lombard
• Samuel Sogno
• Mathilde Vitry

External links

• Fanfan at the Internet Movie Database
  Internet Movie Database
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