Originally made for French television, La belle personne updates to the present Marie Madeleine Pioche de la Vergne’s (Madame de La Fayette’s) 1678 novel La Princesse de Clèves, transferring its sexual and other intrigues from royal court to high school, in this case, a distressingly dilapidated one. When the action starts, young, popular Nemours, who […]