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As directed by acclaimed and award-winning French documentarist Pascale Lamche, the non-fiction opus French Beauty rests on a decades-old question: what impalpable quality is it that so many French actresses exhibit, which explains their irresistible appeal to millions of moviegoers? Lamche explores the possibilities by drawing from old French film clips, and newly-shot interviews with Gallic actresses including Catherine Deneuve, Juliette Binoche, Audrey Tautou, and Jeanne Moreau.