goku33 wrote: Fri Mar 31, 2023 8:35 pmYes I had read this as well some weeks ago. Could be cancer but could also be suicide, who knows. I have to agree with an IMDb review I just read about „beau pere“ and the same goes for the stuff Brooke Shields did: It says a lot about the parents of a child actress when they allowed (or even pressured) their daughter to appear nude on camera as a kid, or in Besse‘s case make out with a ~30yo man.
It’s sad, because Besse performance in „Beau Pere“ was incredible. I’d go as far as to say she outshined Dealaware
Assuming her family aren't the incredibly private sort, I would say it could be suicide, but more likely (statistically speaking) substance abuse issues. Either situation you can understand them not wanting to talk publicly. Of course if they are just very private people it could be anything.
Yeah, Ariel was the real star here. No question. Marion was a stronger and more mature character. Watching the movie I've always wondered what the hell she saw in Remi. She could've found herself a much better guy ... pretty much anywhere. Remi was a perennial slacker who used people to get what he needed. He seemed to have no ambition in life and no spine to stand up for himself.
I don't think Ariel's parents pressured her into anything. She seems to have known there would be nudity, but didn't expect some of the scenes to be as explicit as they were. It sounds (from the material on IMDb) like both the director and her costar kept forgetting how young she really was. Patrick Dewaere was surprised to learn she was a virgin. Ariel didn't quite know how to act like she was getting into it, show real passion, in the ski lodge bedroom scene, and he got impatient with her. Once he got a reality check he apparently coached her on how to fake what she had never experienced in real life. Also that scene where she parades past almost naked earlier in the film, she insisted that they clear out the entire crew. I think the cameraman was the only one left there with her. But the fact that she was setting conditions - if you want me to do this, here's how it's going to work - suggests she wasn't being pushed around.
Her parents objected to one of the movie posters used to advertise the film, which showed Ariel topless and sitting on Dewaere's lap. They even sued the studio to force them to remove it and use different posters but they lost the case. It seemed Ariel was worried about the reaction of her classmates when that picture was plastered on walls and metro stations all over France. It wouldn't surprise me if some of the boys at her school made crude comments to her after seeing it. The studio probably should have been a little more sensitive to the situation. Used a poster that was seductive but not so revealing.
Patrick Dewaere (1992) documentary
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