Wackily magnetic Fontaine (Emmanuelle Devos) is an anesthesiologist with a serious commitment phobia who goes into full panic mode when her boyfriend proposes to her. She and Michel (Bruno Todeschini) seem well-matched, yet her inclination is to aggressively put off answering. Fillières’s third feature exhibited early signs of the playful, sometimes surrealist way with which she approached candid portraits of complex women—here, a capricious one reeling with doubt and repressed desires. It also showed the director’s great taste in actors: Gentille’s supporting cast includes Lambert Wilson as a patient Fontaine fancies, and Bulle Ogier and Michael Lonsdale as her potential parents-in-law.

Good Girl (Gentille)

Sophie Fillières, 2005, 102min, 35mm

Starring Emmanuelle Devos, Lambert Wilson, Bruno Todeschini

Preceded by the short Nothing (Rien)

Sophie Fillières, 1987, 5min, DCP

For her second short film, a docu-fiction shot during her studies at La Fémis film school, Fillières explores a curious hole in a pool locker room.

Cinema at L’Alliance New York is made possible by the generous support of BNP Paribas and Air France.

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