Noce Blanche (English: White Wedding) is a 1989 French romantic drama film written and directed by Jean-Claude Brisseau.
It stars Vanessa Paradis, Bruno Cremer and Ludmila Mikaël, with François Négret, Jean Dasté and Véronique Silver.
At a secondary school in Saint-Étienne, Mathilde Tessier, a moody 17-year-old with a reputation for truancy, arrives late for her philosophy lesson and is not admitted to class.
The next day, Mathilde excels in her philosophy class, explaining with clarity and rigour Freud’s theory of the unconscious to her fellow students.
Aware of François's jealousy, Mathilde makes overt advances by calling him at home to say goodnight, touching his hand during classes and other seductive measures.
When she asks him to divorce his wife, he realises that his affair with a 17-year-old is impossible, worries about the unavoidable scandal that would ruin his career, and backs down.
Mathilde, however, grows jealous of Catherine, first sending her threatening messages then arranging to have the bay windows of her bookshop smashed.
When he comes to identify the body, the police inform him that Mathilde had rented a small apartment near his school with an unobstructed view of his classroom.
"[2] During the investigation that preceded the 2005 sexual-harassment trial of Jean-Claude Brisseau, Paradis' mother reported an incident that occurred during the filming of Noce Blanche.