Sauvons les apparences! (2008)
After his mother has an accident, obese Julien (14) is taken in by his uncle's family in Switzerland. The family, who to all appearances are totally "normal", make Julien's nutrition and well-being their highest priority. But then Julien falls in love with Keiko, a young Japanese girl. In order to seduce her he pretends to be a Sumo-champion but soon finds himself in a quandary: he needs to lose weight for his new family, but he needs to gain weight if he is going to take part in the Sumo training and seduce Keiko. Bit by bit Julien's lies start to crumble and it becomes very apparent that the other protagonists' notion of normality is very relative.
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Cast
Agnès Soral
as Marie-Claire
Agnès Soral (born 8 June 1960) is a Franco-Swiss actress, comedian and writer.
Her family settled in Meudon in the 1960s before the expropriation by the state of forest land owned by her father, who...
Wladimir Yordanoff
as François
Wladimir Yordanoff (28 March 1954 – 6 October 2020) was a French actor of Bulgarian origin. He has appeared in more than sixty films since 1979.
Yordanoff died on 6 October 2020, aged 66.
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Li Xing
as Keiko
Li Xing, or Sophia Li, as she’s also known, is a Taiwanese actress. She was born on August 3, 1984 and made her acting debut in 2017. Since then, she has appeared in a handful of films and television...
Ingrid Juveneton
as Clotilde
Alice Langlois
as Garance
Director
Nicole Borgeat