Gaby Baby Doll
Description
Gaby is neurotic, self-centered and incapable of sleeping alone. When she and her boyfriend decamp to the Burgundy countryside (at the suggestion of Gaby’s therapist), he quickly catches on to the fact that Gaby keeps him around less for the romance and more as a sleep aide. When he abandons her, Gaby is determined to demonstrate her love by remaining on her own in the cavernous house, but proves unable to endure such solitude. She starts by hijacking someone’s dog, proceeds to cozy up to strangers in the local bar, and eventually invades the shack of Nicolas (Benjamin Biolay), a solitary groundskeeper for an abandoned chateau who has fashioned his life to avoid all human companionship. Sophie Letournour’s film cheerfully skirts meet-cute romantic comedy tropes with laid-back ease, laying in some fairy-tale tones at the same time. Isabelle Huppert’s daughter, Lolita Chammah (Farewell, My Queen), gives a charmingly offbeat performance as the equally exasperating and endearing Gaby.
Director, screenwriter and actress Sophie Letourneur studied applied arts and film at the French National School of Decorative Arts. She has directed experimental and documentary shorts, and her first feature-length narrative film, La Vie au Ranch (Chicks), was the third in a trilogy about growing up. Letourneur starred in Les Coquillettes (Macaroni & Cheese), her offbeat semi-fictional film set and filmed during the Locarno Film Festival.
Trailer
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Language French
Year 2014
Runtime 88
Country France
Director Sophie Letourneur
Producer Emmanuel Chaumet
Writer Sophie Letourneur, Anne-Louise Trividic
Editor Jean-Christophe Hym
Cinematographer Jeanne Lapoirie
Music Yong-jin Jeong, Benjamin Biolay
Cast Lolita Chammah, Benjamin Biolay, Félix Moati
Print Source Ecce Films