Year of the Jellyfish

Year of the Jellyfish
FrenchL'Année des méduses
Directed byChristopher Frank
Written byChristopher Frank
Produced byAlain Terzian
StarringBernard Giraudeau
Valérie Kaprisky
Caroline Cellier
Jacques Perrin
CinematographyRenato Berta
Music byNina Hagen
Alain Wisniak
Production
company
Distributed byParafrance Films
Release date
  • 14 November 1984 (1984-11-14)
Running time
110 minutes
CountryFrance
LanguageFrench
Box office$11.7 million[1]

Year of the Jellyfish (French: L'année des méduses) is a 1984 French drama film inspired by a novel by Christopher Frank, directed by Frank himself with Valérie Kaprisky and Bernard Giraudeau. The film had a total of 1,554,641 admissions in France where it was the 23rd highest-grossing film of the year.[1]

Plot

The teenage Chris is on holiday at Saint-Tropez with her mother Claude, while her father remains at work in Paris. After seducing a married friend of her parents and undergoing an abortion, she is looking forward to new sexual adventures. Initially she falls for the older Romain, whose interest is in supplying young girls to rich men. For himself, Romain is far more interested in the mother Claude, who gradually thaws to his approaches and becomes his enthusiastic lover. Put out at this, Chris befriends a German married couple but, after a threesome in their hotel room, the husband leaves in disgust. While starting a romance with the abandoned wife (Barbara), Chris murders Romain in order to thwart her mother.

Principal cast

Awards and nominations

References

  1. ^ a b "L\'Année des méduses (1984) - JPBox-Office". jpbox-office.com. Retrieved 16 December 2020.


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