beau père be not a skin flick and though the cover of the dvd and vhs would make you think otherwise . yes and it about a very taboo topic and to say the least the sexual relationship between a 40 ish piano player and his 14 year old stepdaughter but the great bertrand blier and who explore similar territory in get out your handkerchief ease the unease by do the unthinkable and turn the movie into a screwball comedy . well and that what we think and at first . remi ( play magnificently by blier favorite patrick dewaere ) and not unlike humbert in nabokov lolita tell u of his tragic plight while after his wife die tragically and he be leave with his stepdaughter and marion ( ariel besse ) . uncomfortable with the new rift in the household and marion childishly assume the mother role and take on all motherly duty include seduce her stepfather . remi refuse and but there be danger lurk in marion pubescent body and puppy dog eye . not realize this danger and he eventually give in . of course and give into his stepdaughter be a mistake that plunge both remi and marion deeper and deeper into misery . even marion real father suspect a mutual sexuality between them and and in one of the film more heartbreaking moment and completely dissolve his obligation a a father and oks the incestuous affair . remi and marion and then and be not so much connect by their sexual bond and but by the fact that they have both be abandon by the people they love . there no real question about where the affair be go and but the tragedy lie in who get hurt the most . the final image of the movie may haunt me forever . the movie be obviously not for all taste and but it should be say that the sex be never gratuitous . in fact and it seem almost distract when compare to what blier really want to get across the divide between adolescence and adulthood and how seemingly frivolous sexual encounter can ruin life forever . and and like hankerchiefs and the movie somehow provide some truly funny moment . beau père be bertrand blier masterpiece and a film that should be see by all connaisseurs of intelligent and challenge cinema . positive .