Year of the Jellyfish
| L'Année des méduses | |
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| Directed by | Christopher Frank |
| Produced by | Alain Terzian |
| Written by | Christopher Frank |
| Starring |
Bernard Giraudeau Valérie Kaprisky Caroline Cellier Jacques Perrin Béatrice Agenin Emmanuelle Seigner |
| Music by |
Nina Hagen Alain Wisniak |
| Cinematography | Renato Berta |
| Distributed by | European Classics Video |
Release date |
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Running time | 110 min. |
| Language | French |
| Box office | $11.7 million[1] |
L'année des méduses (The Year of the Jellyfish) is a French drama film inspired by a novel by Christopher Frank, directed by Frank himself with Valérie Kaprisky and Bernard Giraudeau. The film had a total of 1,554,641 admissions in France where it was the 23rd highest grossing film of the year.[2]
Plot
The teenage Chris is on holiday at St Tropez with her mother Claude, while her father remains at work in Paris. After seducing a married friend of her parents and undergoing an abortion, she is looking forward to new sexual adventures. Initially she falls for the older Romain, whose interest is in supplying young girls to rich men. For himself, Romain is far more interested in the mother Claude, who gradually thaws to his approaches and becomes his enthusiastic lover. Put out at this, Chris befriends a German married couple but, after a threesome in their hotel room, the husband leaves in disgust. While starting a romance with the abandoned wife (Barbara), Chris murders Romain in order to thwart her mother.
Principal cast
- Caroline Cellier : Claude, the mother
- Valérie Kaprisky : Chris, the daughter
- Bernard Giraudeau : Romain, the pimp
- Jacques Perrin : Vic, former lover of Chris
- Barbara Nielsen : Barbara, current lover of Chris
Awards and nominations
- César Awards (France)
- Won: Best Actress – Supporting Role (Caroline Cellier)