HOW TO BE A GOOD WIFE

LA BONNE EPOUSE

By Martin PROVOST

WALLIMAGE SA - as FIN

Comedy - Completed 2019


    • Year of production
    • 2019
    • Genres
    • Comedy
    • Countries
    • FRANCE, BELGIUM
    • Languages
    • FRENCH
    • Duration
    • 106 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Martin PROVOST
    • Producer(s)
    • Bastien SIRODOT (Umedia Production SPRL)
    • Synopsis
    • Paulette Van Der Beck (Juliette Binoche) and her husband have been running the housekeeping
      school of Bitche in Alsace for many years. Their mission is to train teenage girls to become the
      perfect housewives at a time when women were expected to be subservient to their husband.
      After the sudden death of her husband, Paulette discovers that the school is on the verge of
      bankruptcy and has to take her responsibilities. But while preparations are underway for the
      best housekeeping competition TV show, she and her lively students start questioning their
      beliefs as the nation-wide protests of May 1968 transform society around them.
      Reunited with her first love, André, and with the help of her eccentric stepsister Gilberte
      (Yolande Moreau) and strict nun Marie-Therese (Noémie Lvovsky), Paulette joins forces with
      the schoolgirls to overcome their suppressed 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.