Lifelong Party Girl

It seems I wasn't the only one who preferred to see more of Sophie Marceau because 1982's La Boum 2 focuses almost entirely on her character, Vic. Without the weird need to prop up Claude Brasseur (who's still in the film in a reduced role) the story becomes mostly an easy-going treat.



Vic is now looking very much like a young woman as her mother observes when watching her in a dance studio. She imagines Vic as Debbie Reynolds in Singin' in the Rain and then as Cyd Charisse and we can see the skinny girl from La Boum is, in La Boum 2, able to match Charisse toe to tip.



The film becomes a sequence of mildly amusing episodes in which Vic agonises about parties and the boys she has to choose from to break her cherry. Only one scene really recalls the tedium of the first film, when Vic loses a bet at a party and has to dress as a streetwalker and stand on the curb for three minutes. Of course, her father immediately just happens to find her.

But mostly this is a sweet showcase for Marceau who was fortunate to grow up beautifully.