Big Is Beautiful (French: Mince alors!) is a 2012 French comedy film, directed by Charlotte de Turckheim and starring Lola Dewaere, Victoria Abril and Catherine Hosmalin.
| Big Is Beautiful | |
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| French | Mince alors! |
| Directed by | Charlotte de Turckheim |
| Written by | Charlotte de Turckheim Gladys Marciano Jeanne Le Guillou |
| Produced by | Dominique Besnehard Anne Derré Michel Feller Christine Gozlan |
| Starring | Victoria Abril Lola Dewaere Catherine Hosmalin |
| Cinematography | Pierre Aïm |
| Edited by | Scott Stevenson |
| Music by | Éric Neveux |
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| Distributed by | UGC Distribution |
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Running time | 100 minutes |
| Country | France |
| Language | French |
| Budget | $8 million [1] |
| Box office | $11.6 million [2] |
Plot
The young, round and lovely Nina is married to Gaspard, who, unfortunately, rather likes very thin women. The couple move to Paris and Nina is preparing to launch a sophisticated line of swimwear. Because of her love for her husband, Nina accepts his ambiguous gift: a slimming treatment at Brides-les-Bains, considered "the last hope of the fat". There, she makes two flamboyant friends. Sophie, a lawyer from Marseille who likes to control everything, including herself. Émilie is a caregiver whose weight has begun to affect her health and her love life yet her motto remains, "Big is beautiful".
Cast
- Lola Dewaere as Nina
- Victoria Abril as Sophie
- Catherine Hosmalin as Emilie
- Grégory Fitoussi as Gaspard
- Mehdi Nebbou as Doctor Hachemi
- Julia Piaton as Roxanne
- Raphaël Lenglet as Yussuf
- Dominique Besnehard as Antoine
- Martin Daquin as Thomas
- Pauline Lefèvre as Natacha
- Anouk Aimée as Mom
- Charlotte de Turckheim as Christelle
- Pascal Légitimus as Freddy
- Christine Citti as Roxanne's mother
- Frédéric Chau as Baptiste
- Claudine Wilde as Gundrun
- Émilie Gavois-Kahn as Nathalie
- Pascal Liger as Hans
- Valérie Moreau as Isabelle
- Alain Stern as Fred
- Barbara Bolotner as Jessica
- Vincent Bowen as Romain
- Jean-Baptiste Perichon as Léo
- David Salles as Andrej
- Jitka Grekova as Xenia
- Eric Boucher as Jean-Paul
- Alexis Sellam as Monsieur Scrabble
- Pablo Pauly as The driver
