La Crème de la crème
Film poster
Directed byKim Chapiron
Written byKim Chapiron
Noé Debré
Produced byBenjamin Elalouf
Pierre-Ange Le Pogam
Brahim Chioua
Vincent Maraval
StarringThomas Blumenthal
Alice Isaaz
Jean-Baptiste Lafarge
CinematographyCrystel Fournier
Edited byBenjamin Weill
Music byIbrahim Maalouf
Production
companies
Moonshaker
Stone Angels
Wild Bunch
Distributed byWild Bunch Distribution
Release date
  • 2 April 2014 (2014-04-02)
Running time
90 minutes
CountryFrance
LanguageFrench
Budget€4 million[1]
Box office$1.1 million[1]

La Crème de la crème (also titled Smart Ass) is a 2014 French comedy-drama film directed by Kim Chapiron. The film received three nominations at the 20th Lumières Awards, where Thomas Blumenthal and Jean-Baptiste Lafarge were nominated for Most Promising Actor and Alice Isaaz for Most Promising Actress.[2]

Filming took place from 20 August to 5 October 2012.[3]

Cast

Synopsis

The quiet-natured Kelia has just joined a prestigious business school in France. At a party, she meets Dan, an unpopular second-year student whose intelligence is ruled by a cold assessment of the commercial value of every thing. Dan’s room-mate, Jaffar, is continually unsuccessful with girls.

Kelia and Dan then engage a young woman and pay her to accompany Jaffar to a soirée in order to increase his seductive capital with the girls at the school. This is remarked by Louis, a student from Versailles, who proposes to Dan and Kelia that they collaborate and extend the strategy to all those students who wish to increase their seduction 'capital'. This consists of setting up a prostitution club « Les amateurs de Cigares ».

The sub-heading of the film refers to their respecting the rules of the marketplace; they rent young people to attend parties. Kelia recruits clients, Louis takes care of them and Dan of the accounts. Kelia, who pretends to be a lesbian with her friends, is attracted to Louis, who is confident of his charm, unlike Dan. For his birthday, Kelia and Louis offer Dan Eulalie, recruited in a perfume shop.

Dan refuses the gift although they end up seeing each other even if Eulalie is working for them. Business goes well, and they expand into an engineering college. However, they are called out and accused of procuring.

Eulalie distances herself from Dan, over-jealous. Kelia tries to prove to the principal that they are the best students on campus since they have successfully applied the methods they were taught. At the disciplinary council, Louis and Kelia kiss.

References

  1. 1 2 "La Crème de la Crème". JP's Box-Office.
  2. "France's Lumiere Awards Nominations Unveiled". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 12 January 2015.
  3. La Crème de la crème (2012) Kim Chapiron - Fiche: Tournage. Ciné-Ressources website. Accessed 1 August 2023.
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