The Girl from the Chartreuse

{{Short description|2002 French novel}}

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| name = The Girl from the Chartreuse

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| alt = Original title: La Petite Chartreuse

| director = Jean-Pierre Denis

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  • Pierre Péju (novel)
  • Jean-Pierre Denis (screenplay)
  • Yvon Rouvé (screenplay)

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| music = Michel Portal

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| released = {{Film date|2005}}

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| country = France

| language = French

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The Girl from the Chartreuse (original title: La Petite Chartreuse) is a French novel written by Pierre Péju and published for the first time in France in 2002.{{Cite journal |last=Ponnou-Delaffon |first=Erin Tremblay |date=2022 |title=Into great silence: Pierre Péju’s La Petite Chartreuse, a contemporary tale of secular pilgrimage |url=https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/oli.12340 |journal=Orbis Litterarum |language=en |volume=77 |issue=5 |pages=285–298 |doi=10.1111/oli.12340 |issn=1600-0730}} It has been translated in several other languages{{Cite web |date=2016-06-18 |title=Pierre Peju’s “Girl from the Chartreuse” comes to Iranian bookstores |url=https://www.tehrantimes.com/news/403500/Pierre-Peju-s-Girl-from-the-Chartreuse-comes-to-Iranian-bookstores |access-date=2025-04-18 |website=Tehran Times |language=en}} including English{{Cite book |last=Péju |first=Pierre |url=https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/358292/the-girl-from-the-chartreuse-by-pierre-peju/9781784705626 |title=The Girl from the Chartreuse |date=2016-11-24 |language=en}} and it has been adapted in an eponymous film by Jean-Pierre Denis.{{Cite web |last= |date=2005-02-23 |title="La Petite Chartreuse" : Rencontre avec Olivier Gourmet |url=https://www.allocine.fr/article/fichearticle_gen_carticle=18369759.html |access-date=2025-04-18 |website=AlloCiné |language=fr}}

The film

The adapted film was shot in 2004, in the French Alps around Grenoble,{{Cite web |title=La Petite Chartreuse |url=https://history.sffs.org/films/film_details.php?id=3846 |access-date=2025-04-18 |website=San Francisco Film Festival}} and released in France and Belgium in 2005. It stars Olivier Gourmet, Marie-Josée Croze, Yves Jacques and young newcomer Bertille Noël-Bruneau. The scenario was co-written by director Jean-Pierre Denis with Yvon Rouvé.{{Cite web |last=Nesselson |first=Lisa |date=2005-03-15 |title=La Petite Chartreuse |url=https://variety.com/2005/film/reviews/la-petite-chartreuse-1200527230/ |access-date=2025-04-18 |website=Variety |language=en-US}} The original soundtrack was composed by Michel Portal.

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