Too Beautiful for You - 1990 * * *

Gerald Depardieu is a brilliant actor but he doesn't half play some horrible and unappealing characters. In this movie he plays Bernanrd, who is married to a beautiful woman but finds himself drawn to his plain and not very attractive secretary. The two begin an affair and very soon Bernard is in love with her, but cannot leave his wife. The movie starts as though you have missed out a chunk of the script which is very confusing, almost immediately they are in love, and then Bernard tells his wife about the affair but does nothing to rectify it. He doesn't seem to have a conscience or to worry about his wife's feelings, and also spends a good deal of the movie going from one woman to the next like a lovesick schoolboy because he can't make up his mind which one he prefers. The famous phrase of 'having your cake and eating it too' was never more fitting than for this character. However the women aren't much better and seem to have zero respect for themselves anyway ( the secretary stays with him even after she finds out he is married and his wife tries to brush the affair under the carpet hoping he will choose her all over again). The ending is excellent though and really made me feel that there is some justice in the world when it comes to men like that.