Most Promising Young Actress

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.

Cast

 * Gérard Jugnot as Yvon Rance
 * Bérénice Bejo as Laetitia Rance
 * Antoine Duléry as Stéphane Leroy
 * Chantal Lauby as Françoise
 * Hubert Saint-Macary as Loïck
 * Sabine Haudepin as Hélène
 * Didier Flamand as Belabre
 * Dora Doll as Madame Guiguan
 * Mohamed Hicham as Kader Achour
 * Daniel Martin as Michel
 * Philippe Beglia as Andrea
 * Sylvie Granotier as Claudia
 * Laurent Lebras as Cyril
 * Frédérique Meininger as Madame Pigrenez
 * Anne-Marie Jabraud as Madame Picot
 * Anna Gaylor as Madame Favart
 * Marie Mergey as Madame Le Cloarec
 * Thierry Obaïka as François
 * Élise Otzenberger as Julie
 * Arthur Jugnot as Alex
 * Patrice Juiff as Marco
 * Romain Thunin as Christophe
 * Justine Bruneau as Marie
 * Noémie Ringressi as Anna
 * Claire Chiron as Brigitte
 * Jean-Claude Bourlat as Ronald
 * Olivier Granier as Jean-Paul
 * Victoria Obermayer as Stéphanie

Cameo

 * Ticky Holgado as The Homeless
 * Jean-Pierre Foucault as himself
 * Daniela Lumbroso as herself
 * Thierry Lhermitte as A Comedian
 * Philippe de Broca as The Director
 * Dominique Besnehard as The Flattering
 * Michèle Garcia as The Buyer
 * Guillaume de Tonquédec as SNCF Employee

Award

 * Bérénice Bejo was nominated for the César Award for Most Promising Actress.