Vilaine (2008) Directed by Jean-Patrick Benes, Allan Mauduit
Comedy
aka: Ugly Melanie
Film Synopsis
Mélanie is an ordinary, dowdy looking girl with one fatal
flaw. She can't help being nice to people. It seems that
her sole mission in life is to please others, and so naturally everyone
takes advantage of her. Her mother, her boss, her friends - all
play on her apparent naivety for their own gain. But all is not
what it seems. Mélanie's apparent sanctity evaporates in
an instant when a date with a man she thought would be the love of her
life goes disastrously wrong. So much for niceness. So much
for good deeds and forced smiles. Now it is time for revenge...
Science-fiction came into its own in B-movies of the 1950s, but it remains a respected and popular genre, bursting into the mainstream in the late 1970s.
Continental Films, quality cinema under the Nazi Occupation
At the time of the Nazi Occupation of France during WWII, the German-run company Continental produced some of the finest films made in France in the 1940s.