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The New Girlfriend
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The New Girlfriend (Une nouvelle amie) is a 2014 French drama film directed by François Ozon, starring Romain Duris, Anaïs Demoustier, Raphaël Personnaz and Isild Le Besco.Laura (Le Besco) is the best friend of Claire (Demoustier). Laura is married to David (Duris) and Claire is married to Gilles (Personnaz). Soon after the birth of Lucie, her first child, Laura dies. Both Claire and David have to cope with grief. Then Claire discovers that David likes crossdressing. Claire calls David's female persona Virginia. | |
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Daydream Surprise | |
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Daydream Surprise: When Claire and David spend a night in Créancy, someone comes in Claire's bed and starts caressing her. Then this person is revealed to be Laura and Claire wakes up. At the tennis club, Claire sneaks into the men's shower room and she catches her husband having sex with David, but it is just her imagination: when Claire comes round David and Gilles are just having a shower side by side. | |
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Intimate Hair Brushing: In the Flashback, Claire as a child combs Laura's hair. This scene is used as a Time Passes Montage: both girls are immediately shown doing the same thing as teenagers. In Créancy, Claire combs Virginia's wig. | |
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Creator Cameo: The director, François Ozon, plays the role of a pervert man in the cinema. | |
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Plot-Triggering Death: The events of the film are triggered by the death of Laura. | |
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In Medias Res: The film starts with the making-up and the dressing of Laura's dead body, and her funeral. Then, a short Flashback sums up Laura's life, in particular her friendship with Claire. | |
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Wholesome Crossdresser | |
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Wholesome Crossdresser: Even if Claire's first reaction when she discovers that David likes crossdressing is to call him a pervert, David is presented in a neutral way. In the end, everybody (including David himself) accepts that he cross-dresses. | |
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Catapult Nightmare: Happens to Claire in Créancy, when she dreams that Laura has come into her bed. | |
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Mistaken for Cheating | |
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Mistaken for Cheating: When Gilles hears that his wife Claire spent a couple of days with David in Créancy, he assumes that she cheated on him, but she did not. | |
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Distant Finale | |
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Distant Finale: The epilogue is set 7 years after the main events of the story. | |
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Attractive Bent-Gender | |
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Attractive Bent-Gender: When David goes to the cinema dressed as a woman, a man immediately sits next to him and puts his hand on David's thigh. Claire is also attracted to David's female persona. When they are going to have sex together, Claire suddenly stops and goes away because she realizes that David has a penis. | |
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Flashback | |
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In the Flashback, Claire as a child combs Laura's hair. This scene is used as a Time Passes Montage: both girls are immediately shown doing the same thing as teenagers. | |
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Mistaken for Gay | |
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Mistaken for Gay: Claire tells her husband that David has realized that he is gay to justify the fact that she spent secretly a couple of days with him in Créancy. So, Gilles thinks that David is gay, whereas he is not, even if he likes crossdressing. | |
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Replacement Goldfish | |
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Replacement Goldfish: David claims at first that he cross-dresses because Lucie's mother is dead and the baby needs a mother figure. His female persona also replaces Claire's best friend. | |
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Shopping Montage | |
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Shopping Montage: There is one when David goes out of his house dressed as a woman for the first time. Claire takes him to a shopping mall and they buy female clothes together. | |
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Once More, with Clarity | |
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Once More, with Clarity!: In the opening scene, we do not see who dresses and makes up Laura's dead body. Later, in a Flashback, it is revealed that David did it. | |
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Invented Invalid: Claire tells Gilles that her mother is sick and she must visit her, so that she can spend some days with Virginia in Créancy. | |
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Drag Queen | |
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Drag Queen: Claire and David (as Virginia) go to a nightclub where a drag queen strips to the sound of "Une femme avec toi" by Nicole Croisille. | |
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Posthumous Character | |
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Posthumous Character: Laura's dead body is shown in the opening sequence of the film. Then, a short Flashback sums up her life. A large part of the whole movie is about how Claire and David deal with her death. | |
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Meaningful Funeral | |
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Meaningful Funeral: Laura's funeral shows how Claire was attached to her. In particular, Claire reveals that she promised Laura to take care of her husband David and her daughter Lucie. | |
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Look Both Ways | |
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Look Both Ways: In the end, David (as Virginia) is hit by a car after leaving the hotel where Claire turned down his advances. He is seriously injured, but he survives. | |
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Soundtrack Dissonance | |
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Soundtrack Dissonance: In the opening sequence, Richard Wagner's wedding march is played while Laura's dead body is put into a coffin. | |
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Convenient Coma | |
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Convenient Coma: After being hit by a car, David goes into a coma. He gets out of it easily, when Claire dresses him and makes him up as Virginia and when she sings "Une femme avec toi" (a song by Nicole Croisille) for him. | |
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Love Triangle | |
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Love Triangle: Claire is married to Gilles, but she is attracted to Virginia, David's female persona. | |
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The Film of the Book | |
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The Film of the Book: The story is based on The New Girlfriend, a 1985 novel by Ruth Rendell | |
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Where Everybody Knows Your Flame | |
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Where Everybody Knows Your Flame: Claire and Virginia go to a gay nightclub. There, a drag queen strips, then the people dance to the sound of "Follow Me", a euro disco song by Amanda Lear. | |
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A Minor Kidroduction | |
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A Minor Kidroduction: In the beginning, a Flashback shows Claire and Laura when they were children. | |
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The Lost Lenore | |
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The Lost Lenore: The film starts with the funeral of Laura, David's wife. The movie depicts how he deals with her death. | |
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Little Black Dress: Claire wears one when she goes out for dinner with her husband and David. | |
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