Is France Ready For A FLILF?
December 17, 2007 4:32 PM   Subscribe

Heiress, supermodel, singer, and serial homewrecker, Carla Bruni has "been linked" to quite a few celebrities. Now, she's been spotted with the recently-elected, and even-more-recently-divorced President of France. Now, the question is: Is France ready for a FLILF?
posted by Skeptic (30 comments total)

This post was deleted for the following reason: bleh. -- jessamyn



 
-ILF is an acronym that I really, really can't stand. I don't mind obscene, but given how childishly sexist its original form was, it seems odd to me that so many people want to increase its currency.
posted by koeselitz at 4:43 PM on December 17, 2007 [5 favorites]


The forced humor of the acronym "FLIFL" is the only reason for this post to exist, and it's not a good reason. Besides, anyone outside of France who buys into the common stereotype of French people (even slightly) will say "Fuck Yeah!"
posted by wendell at 4:51 PM on December 17, 2007


This will Wittler.
posted by grouse at 4:53 PM on December 17, 2007


No, more likely it'll Hoffman.
posted by wendell at 5:08 PM on December 17, 2007 [2 favorites]


Call her hot all you want, that song still rules.
posted by DU at 5:10 PM on December 17, 2007


Thank God they can't Flag thoughts...
posted by oh pollo! at 5:24 PM on December 17, 2007


Did anyone see ET tonight?
posted by localhuman at 5:33 PM on December 17, 2007


Serial homewrecker. Finally, something French that I can aspire to.
posted by Cool Papa Bell at 5:36 PM on December 17, 2007 [1 favorite]


I'm with koeselitz on this one.
posted by caddis at 5:42 PM on December 17, 2007


Is there some magic button I'm not pressing? All I get is the ad.

WAY TO GO, I.T.
posted by Civil_Disobedient at 5:54 PM on December 17, 2007


Additionally, one fucking picture in all those links? Are you fucking kidding me? You can't objectify women worth a shit.

Carla Bruni photo gallery.
posted by Civil_Disobedient at 6:00 PM on December 17, 2007


Good looking and rich... bien joué, Sarko!
posted by clevershark at 6:05 PM on December 17, 2007


My guess is he has been seeing her for a while. Whenever someone pops up with a relationship months after a death/divorce, things don't normally happen that fast unless there is more to the story.
posted by stbalbach at 6:13 PM on December 17, 2007


"Serial homewrecker"? "FLILF"? Geez louise, where's the "flagged as ultra-classy" button?

I think Bruni made a real mistake going English on her second album (and setting serious poems to music is nearly always a very, very bad idea), but Bruni's first album is splendid. God forbid we ignore the earthshaking facts that she has breasts and a social life for the two nanoseconds necessary to observe that she's a pretty good guitar player and excellent songwriter.
posted by FelliniBlank at 6:30 PM on December 17, 2007


I'd read that the French media got tired of the story a long time ago, and it wasn't that interesting to them to begin weez with.

Without taking time to research this comment, I also remember being told that Francois Mittterand once attended a state funeral with both his wife and his lover, and it didn't cause much of a stir, relative to the stir it would cause in the US if Bill went to ___[deceased leader]___'s funeral with Hilary and Monica.

Someone correct me or add to this or fling poo at me?
(FLILF? HMPH.)
posted by not_on_display at 6:31 PM on December 17, 2007


Oh, the 2nd album is in English? That's no fun at all. I enjoyed the incomprehensibility of the 1st one.
posted by smackfu at 6:31 PM on December 17, 2007


not_on_display, the Mitterrand/funeral thing you're thinking of is his funeral, where his mistress and their daughter attended Mitterrand's state funeral and were given precedence along with his legitimate family.
posted by Ranucci at 6:56 PM on December 17, 2007


Whenever someone pops up with a relationship months after a death/divorce, things don't normally happen that fast unless there is more to the story.
There was the detail that his wife had been publicly seeing someone else for a couple years, if I remember right.
posted by louie at 7:09 PM on December 17, 2007


I can only assume that a supermodel first lady would pose less of a problem that a vice president who seems, by all reasonable measure, to be some sort of supervillain. I have been wrong before.
posted by stet at 7:33 PM on December 17, 2007


What's the point of this post again?
posted by signal at 7:41 PM on December 17, 2007


I keep reading "hairless supermodel" and thinking "so she works in porn, eh?"
posted by maxwelton at 7:50 PM on December 17, 2007


"so she works in porn, eh?"

With all the guys that have been pounding her, she might as well have.
posted by jayder at 8:08 PM on December 17, 2007


How soon you forget they almost had a president you'd like to fuck.
posted by birdie birdington at 8:40 PM on December 17, 2007


Hey, I actually heard her playing on my colleague's cd player and listened to her music *before* finding out she was the hotty supermodel. And thus my conversion to being a Fark poster is slightly delayed.
posted by craniac at 9:34 PM on December 17, 2007


I'd read that the French media got tired of the story a long time ago

Hardly, since the story only broke yesterday. (And, boy, they aren't going to get tired of it anytime soon.)

Apart from that, maybe the righteous souls getting all annoyed over my use of "serial homewrecker" and "FLILF" could have had a look at the links to find out that Bruni is a very, very interesting character (more than Sarkozy, and certainly much more than Segolène Royal who, let's face it, may be "hot", but sucked as a presidential candidate).

For instance, "homewrecker" links to the story of how she was living with Bernard-Henri Lévy's best friend and editor, Jean-Paul Elthoven, and left him for his married son, who was married to Lévy's daughter Justine, who wrote a bestselling, much-awarded book out of the humiliating experience.

Also, Bruni not only sings rather well, but writes her own lyrics, and is the sister of actress, director and writer, Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi. No, she isn't your stereotypical dumb bimbo.
posted by Skeptic at 11:38 PM on December 17, 2007


^ o v e r - r e a c t i o n
posted by philomathoholic at 1:06 AM on December 18, 2007


Don't care.
posted by nicolin at 1:37 AM on December 18, 2007


So she left some dude for some other dude and the other dude's wife wrote a book, and she's some other dude's sister? That's the meat of this post?
posted by signal at 3:13 AM on December 18, 2007


but given how childishly sexist its original form was,

it comes from a movie where a guy humps an apple pie and another ejaculates in a glass of beer and then someone drinks it, what the hell were you expecting? me, I'm a big fan of the fact that men and women of all sexual persuasions very often think "that's someone I'd Like to Fuck", it's very beautiful and very human: moms one'd like to fuck, dads one'd like to fuck, aunts, bakers, pharmacists, house painters, nurses, bank clerks (and, yes, models) one would like to fuck: the -ILF thing is actually very beautiful, a celebration of desire. I'd like to see more of that. yay for fucking.

Bruni's first album is splendid

where "splendid" means "very weak, thin, reedy voice of someone who can't sing and then has to basically whisper and purr hoping that people will think it's sexy just because it's in French, whispered/purred over generic guitar chords". her two CDs put together aren't worth two bars of a Françoise Hardy song, and that's not saying that much.

the only remotely interesting thing Bruni ever did was posing naked in her father's lap and with her half-naked brother for that appalling Helmut Newton spread, because everybody went, "what the fuck was she thinking?".

and please don't get me started about her less talented sister.
posted by matteo at 3:19 AM on December 18, 2007 [3 favorites]


it comes from a movie where a guy humps an apple pie and another ejaculates in a glass of beer and then someone drinks it, what the hell were you expecting?

A juvenile, sexist phrase.
posted by signal at 3:40 AM on December 18, 2007


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