| L'Étudiante | |
| Director: | Claude Pinoteau |
| Producer: | Alain Poiré |
| Music: | Vladimir Cosma |
| Cinematography: | Yves Rodallec |
| Editing: | Marie-Josèphe Yoyotte |
| Studio: | Gaumont Film Company |
| Distributor: | Gaumont Film Company |
| Runtime: | 103 minutes |
| Country: | France |
| Language: | French |
| Gross: | $11.9 million[1] |
L'Étudiante (English: The Student) is a 1988 French romantic comedy film directed by Claude Pinoteau and starring Sophie Marceau, Vincent Lindon and Élisabeth Vitali.[2] Written by Claude Pinoteau and Danièle Thompson, the film is about an ambitious teaching student, busy preparing for her final exams, whose studies are interrupted by a passionate affair with a jazz musician. The film was released to French theaters on 10 October 1988 and sold 1,583,067 admissions in France.[3]
Twenty-one-year-old Valentine (Sophie Marceau) is a part-time teacher preparing for her all-important final teaching examinations. She meets Edouard (Vincent Lindon), a jazz musician who aspires to be a composer. Despite their different schedules and career agenda, they engage in a passionate affair. Valentine compares her relationship with Edouard to the dry dissertation of Molière's The Misanthrope in her oral exams at the Sorbonne.