Dieu est grand, je suis toute petite (2001)

Director:

Pascale Bailly

Writers:

Alain Tasma (screenplay) and
Pascale Bailly (adaptation)

Release Date:

26 September 2001 (France)

Genre:

Comedy | Romance

Plot:

Michèle, 20 years old, feels terrible after having broken up with her boy-friend. She meets Francois...

Plot Keywords:

Veterinarian | Judaism | Wedding | Love | Male Female Relationship

Cast

Audrey Tautou	...	Michèle
Edouard Baer	...	François
Julie Depardieu	...	Valérie
Catherine Jacob	...	Evelyne
Philippe Laudenbach	...	Jean
Cathy Verney	...	Florence
Anna Koch	...	Régine
Max Tzwangue	...	Simon
Mathieu Demy	...	Bertrand
Atmen Kelif	...	Ali
Nelly Camara	...	Laetitia
Jean Reichman	...	Joseph
Bruno Slagmulder	...	Fred
Lucien Melki	...	Laurent
Nathalie Levy-Lang	...	Jessica

Also Known As:

God Is Great and I'm Not (USA) (DVD title)
God Is Great, I'm Not (USA) (festival title)
Dios es grande, yo soy pequeña (Argentina) (Spain) (DVD title) [es]
Bóg jest wielki, a ja malutka (Poland) [pl]
Dio è grande, io no (Italy) [it]
Gud är stor, jag är liten (Finland: Swedish title) (TV title) [sv]
Hyvässä uskossa (Finland) (TV title) [fi]
Isten nagy, én kicsi vagyok (Hungary) [hu]
Unglaublich (Germany) (DVD title) [de]

Runtime:

100 min

Country:

France

Language:

French | English | Hebrew

Color:

Color

Sound Mix:

DTS

Certification:

Spain:T | South Korea:15 | Singapore:M18 | Argentina:13 | France:U | Switzerland:7 (canton of Geneva) | Switzerland:7 (canton of Vaud)

Filming Locations:

Paris, France

Company:

Canal+

Quotes:

Michèle: What's your religion?
François: Meaning?
Michèle: What religion are you?
François: I'm nothing. Do I have to have one? The cops ask easier questions.

Movie Connections:

References Jaws (1975)

For what it is, it's just right

OK. This movie has had its fair share of bashing so I just wanted to even things out a bit. This movie really isn't all that bad. In fact, I quite liked it.

It's a French romantic comedy, so don't look for any sort of great depth or intellectual mindblowing epiphanies about the world. It's a happy, fun and stylish movie featuring Audrey Tautou. I'm sort of a closet Tautou fanatic; I've seen all her movies and this one is actually one of my favorites. No, it's nothing like Amelie nor does it aspire to be - but it does feature Audrey doing what she does best: being a whimsical, cute and slightly aloof twenty something girl who is lovelorn and lost in the busy Paris life that she is enveloped in.

Virtually stealing the spotlight from Tautou, Edouard Baer's "Francois" character is great. He is passionate, volatile, and paranoid of Michele's reasons for doing anything she does. Both leads exemplify the roller-coaster of confusion that comes along with being young and trying to discover yourself, and to watch it all play out through the charismatic performances of these two great actors is exactly what people who enjoy lighthearted French romantic comedies pay to see. For what it is, it's just right.