Marion Hill set out to depict a triad relationship honestly in “Ma Belle, My Beauty”
Ma Belle, My Beauty, a romance à trois set amidst the sun-kissed hills of Anduze, in the south of France. “It for sure sometimes feels dangerously personal.”Yet, while Hill considers her first feature film to be semi-autobiographical, she also took some license in creating its characters Bertie, Lane, and Fred, crafting the story of three who became two after one left unexpectedly.In the film, an Audience Award winner at the 2021 Sundance Film Festival, jazz singer Bertie (Idella Johnson) and bandleader Fred (Lucien Guignard) have married, moved to a vineyard in Anduze, and moved on from their poly days in New Orleans.