L'Étudiante (English: The Student) is a 1988 French romantic comedy film directed by Claude Pinoteau and starring Sophie Marceau, Vincent Lindon and Élisabeth Vitali.^[2] Written by Claude Pinoteau and Danièle Thompson, the film is about an ambitious teaching student, busy preparing for her final exams, whose studies are interrupted by a passionate affair with a jazz musician. The film was released to French theaters on 10 October 1988 and sold 1,583,067 admissions in France.^[3]

Twenty-one-year-old Valentine (Sophie Marceau) is a part-time teacher preparing for her all-important final teaching examinations. She meets Edouard (Vincent Lindon), a jazz musician who aspires to be a composer. Despite their different schedules and career agenda, they engage in a passionate affair. Valentine compares her relationship with Edouard to the dry dissertation of Molière's The Misanthrope in her oral exams at the Sorbonne.

• Sophie Marceau as Valentine Ezquerra
• Vincent Lindon as Ned
• Élisabeth Vitali as Celine
• Jean-Claude Leguay as Charly
• Elena Pompei as Patricia
• Roberto Attias as Philippe
• Brigitte Chamarande as Claire
• Christian Pereira as Serge
• Beppe Chierici as L'appariteur
• Nathalie Mann as Alexandra
• Anne Macina as Laura
• Janine Souchon as La dame au chien
• Virginie Demians
• Hugues Leforestier as Patron du bouchon
• Jacqueline Noëlle
• Marc-André Brunet as Victor^[4]