Elisa ★★ 1994 Teenaged sexpot Marie (Paradis) has grown up in a reform school, thanks to her mother Elisa's suicide. Along with friends Solange (Courau) and Ahmed (Sall), Marie spends her time on the Paris streets shoplifting and flirting. Obsessed with finding her long-gone father, Marie discovers that Lebovitch (Depardieu), the writer of the popular song "Elisa," is daddy dearest. He's now a drunk, living on a fishing island, and Marie sets out to right the wrongs she believes drove her mother to suicide. Based on the song by Serge Gainsbourg. French with subtitles. 111m/C VHS. FR Vanessa Paradis, Gerard Depardieu, Clotilde Courau, Sekkou Sall, Florence Thomassin;
Director:
Jean Becker;
Writer:
Jean Becker, Fabrice Carazo;
Writer:
Etienne Becker;
Cameo:
Zbigniew Preisner. Cesar '95: Support. Actress (Courau), Score.
