''La Crème de la crème'' (also titled ''Smart Ass'') is a 2014 French comedy-drama film directed by

Kim Chapiron Kim Chapiron (born 4 July 1980) is a French film director, screenwriter, and musician of Vietnamese descent. Biography Of Vietnamese origin by his mother, Chapiron is the son of graphic designer Christian Chapiron, better known as Kiki Picasso, ...

. The film received three nominations at the 20th Lumière Awards, where Thomas Blumenthal and Jean-Baptiste Lafarge were nominated for Best Male Revelation and Alice Isaaz for Best Female Revelation. Filming took place from 20 August to 5 October 2012.

Plot

The quiet-natured Kelia has just joined a prestigious business school in France (some media will consider this to be

HEC Paris HEC Paris () is a business school and ''grande école'' located in Jouy-en-Josas, a southwestern outer suburb of Paris, France. It offers Bachelor, MiM, MSc in International Finance, MBA, EMBA, executive education, professional developm ...

).La Crème de la crème, HEC bien fouettée
/ref> At a party, she meets Dan, an unpopular second-year student whose intelligence is ruled by a cold assessment of the commercial value of every thing. Dan’s room-mate, Jaffar, is continually unsuccessful with girls. Kelia and Dan then engage a young woman and pay her to accompany Jaffar to a soirée in order to increase his seductive capital with the girls at the school. This is remarked by Louis, a student from Versailles, who proposes to Dan and Kelia that they collaborate and extend the strategy to all those students who wish to increase their 'seduction capital'. This consists of setting up a prostitution club, Les amateurs de Cigares. The sub-heading of the film refers to their respecting the rules of the marketplace; they rent young people to attend parties. Kelia recruits clients, Louis takes care of them, and Dan handles the accounts. Kelia, who pretends to be a lesbian with her friends, is attracted to Louis, who is confident of his charm, unlike Dan. For his birthday, Kelia and Louis offer Dan Eulalie, recruited in a perfume shop. Dan refuses the gift, although they end up seeing each other even if Eulalie is working for them. Business goes well, and they expand into an engineering college. However, they are called out and accused of procuring. Eulalie distances herself from Dan, who is overly jealous. Kelia tries to prove to the principal that they are the best students on campus since they have successfully applied the methods they were taught. At the disciplinary council, Louis and Kelia kiss.

Cast

* Thomas Blumenthal as Dan * Alice Isaaz as Kelly * Jean-Baptiste Lafarge as Louis * Karim Ait M'Hand as Jaffar * Marine Sainsily as Eulalie *

Marianne Denicourt Marianne Denicourt (née Cuau; born 14 May 1966) is a French actress, director and screenwriter who has appeared in more than 50 films and television productions since 1986. She studied under Patrice Chéreau in 1985–86 at the Théâtre Nan ...

as Louis' Mother * Bruno Abraham-Kremer as Dan's Father * Jenna Thiam as Photocopy Shop Girl * Noémie Merlant as The Redhead * Lucas Bravo as Antoine Mufla

References

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* 2014 films 2014 comedy-drama films 2010s French-language films French comedy-drama films 2010s French films French-language comedy-drama films Films set in universities and colleges {{2010s-France-drama-film-stub