How to be a Good Wife


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“Binoche is irresistible. A wonderful, very well-made, good humored portrayal of the road traveled over the past 50 years towards female emancipation. – Fabien Lemercier, Cineuropa

France, 1967. Old-fashioned sexual politics still rule the day, but unrest among students in Paris and a nationwide protest movement will soon change the country forever. César Award-winning director Martin Provost’s HOW TO BE A GOOD WIFE (La bonne épouse) delightfully satirizes the social conservatism and traditional gender roles of 1960s France. The dutiful homemaker Paulette Van Der Beck (Juliette Binoche) and her husband Robert (Françoyis Berléand) have been running Van der Beck’s School of Housekeeping and Good Manners for decades, but the sudden death of her husband leaves her certainties shaken. Before long, the lives of Paulette and her students will be transformed in the feminist uprising of May 68. Blending classic farce, playful satire and full-hearted feminist conviction, HOW TO BE A GOOD WIFE is a crowd-pleasing send-up of 1960s France and celebration of the women who fought for change.

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108Rated NR
Aspect Ratio - Scope (2.39 : 1)
Distributor - Distrib FIlms
in French with English subtitles

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