Most Promising Young Actress

Most Promising Young Actress
French: Meilleur espoir féminin
Most Promising Young Actress; French: Meilleur espoir féminin
Directed by	Gérard Jugnot
Written by	Gérard Jugnot; Isabelle Mergault
Produced by	Dominique Farrugia; Olivier Granier
Starring	Gérard Jugnot; Bérénice Bejo; Antoine Duléry; Chantal Lauby
Cinematography	Pascal Gennesseaux
Edited by	Catherine Kelber
Music by	Khalil Chahine
Production; companies	Rigolo Films 2000; Novo Arturo Films; Ariane Films; TF1 Films Production
Distributed by	UGC Fox Distribution
Release date	31 May 2000;
Running time	100 min.
Country	France
Language	French
Budget	$7,4 million
Box office	$14.4 million

Most Promising Young Actress (French: Meilleur espoir féminin) is a 2000 French comedy film, directed and co-written by Gérard Jugnot.

Plot

Yvon Rance, hairdresser by vocation, in the small town of Cancale, have one student daughter Laetitia, he wants to make her a successful hairdresser. She would open a salon in Laval or Quimper. But Laetitia wants to make films, she secretly auditioned and was selected for the leading role. Not easy to break the news to her father who shows rather unpleasant and, as soon as he heard the news, trying by all means to prevent his daughter to make films. Yvon, which nevertheless wants happiness of his daughter, finally agrees to take her on location in Paris, but never stays away, always suspecting Stéphane Leroy, the writer and director of the film, to shoot with Laetitia disturbing sequences.