Big Is Beautiful | |
Native Name: | |
Director: | Charlotte de Turckheim |
Producer: | Dominique Besnehard Anne Derré Michel Feller Christine Gozlan |
Starring: | Victoria Abril Lola Dewaere Catherine Hosmalin |
Music: | Éric Neveux |
Cinematography: | Pierre Aïm |
Editing: | Scott Stevenson |
Studio: | TF1 Droits Audiovisuels UGC M6 Films |
Distributor: | UGC Distribution |
Runtime: | 100 minutes |
Country: | France |
Language: | French |
Budget: | $8 million [1] |
Gross: | $11.6 million [2] |
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.
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".