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HOW TO BE A GOOD WIFE

LA BONNE EPOUSE

By Martin PROVOST

MEMENTO INTERNATIONAL - as SALES All rights, World

Comedy - Completed 2019

How To Be A Good Wife is a humorous and satirical take on a universal story about solidarity and gender equality.

- Year of production
- 2019
- Genres
- Comedy
- Countries
- FRANCE
- Languages
- FRENCH
- Duration
- 108 mn
- Director(s)
- Martin PROVOST
- Writer(s)
- Martin PROVOST, Séverine WERBA
- Cast
- Juliette BINOCHE, Edouard BAER, Yolande MOREAU, Noémie LVOVSKY
- Producer(s)
- François KRAUS (LES FILMS DU KIOSQUE), Denis PINEAU-VALENCIENNE (LES FILMS DU KIOSQUE)
- Synopsis
- Paulette Van Der Beck (Juliette Binoche) and her husband have been running a homemakers institute in Bœrsch, Alsace, for many years. Their mission is to train teenage girls to become perfect housewives at a time when women were expected to submit to their husbands.
  When her husband suddenly dies, Paulette takes over and discovers that the school is on the verge of bankruptcy. But while preparations are underway for the best homemaking competition sponsored by a popular TV show, she and her lively students start questioning their beliefs as the nationwide protests of May 1968 transform society around them.
  Reunited with her first love, André, and with the help of her eccentric sister-in-law Gilberte (Yolande Moreau) and a stern nun Marie-Therese (Noémie Lvovsky), Paulette joins forces with her pupils to overcome their subservient status and become liberated women.
  How to Be a Good Wife is a humorous and satirical take on a universal story about solidarity and gender equality.