Femmes fatales
Synopsis
Two men, fortyish, worn out by their wives, abandon everything to go and live in the back of beyond. There they meet a truculent priest, a boozer, Émile (Bernard Blier) who recalls them to life's simple pleasures. Calm is what they want. But soon their example inspires thousands of disorientated males, fleeing the feminist 1970s. Soon, too, there arrives a squadron of nymphomaniac Amazons.
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Director (1)
Actors (58)
Production and distribution (4)
- Executive Producer : Films Christian Fechner
- Co-productions : Renn Productions, AMLF
- Film exports/foreign sales : Tamasa Distribution
- French distribution : AMLF
Full credits (15)
- Screenwriters : Bertrand Blier, Philippe Dumarçay
- Director of Photography : Claude Renoir
- Music Composer : Georges Delerue
- Assistant Director : Michel Leroy
- Editor : Claudine Merlin
- Costume designer : Michèle Cerf
- Producers : Bernard Artigues, Claude Berri, Christian Fechner
- Assistant Operator : René Chabal
- Camera Operator : Yves Rodallec
- Production Manager : Henri Brichetti
- Assistant editors : Élisabeth Moulinier, Annick Menier
- Continuity supervisor : Annie Maurel
- Production Designer : Jean André
- Still Photographer : Maurice Chapiron
- Unit Production Managers : François Menny, Christine Gozlan
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Technical details
- Type : Feature film
- Genres : Fiction
- Sub-genre : Comedy, Drama
- Themes : Sexuality, Dreams
- Production language : French
- Production country : France (100.0%)
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Critical reception
Pauline Kael reviewed the film in The New Yorker : "Blier's method worked in Les Valseuses, and it works in Préparez Vos Mouchoirs, but something went wrong in his sexual extravaganza Calmos (and the picture failed, even in France)...The two men are joined by other escaping men; women demanding gratification come after them with guns, and it's a full-scale tedious war of the sexes until, finally, the two pals, old men now and shrivelled in size, are dropped out of a cloud onto an island...Calmos is an overscaled back-to-the-womb satiric fantasy - a male daydream about the impossibility of escape from the sexual wars..It's about the demands of sex on men who spent their youth chasing women and now - jaded - want a break from it - they want to go off and live like pigs. It's a funny idea, and though Calmos abandons it, there are still things to look at all through the picture...Throughout the women are made repellently beautiful - they have a neon voraciousness. Brigitte Fossey, a blond cat with a perfect tiny mouth, is like sensual porcelain. No one but Blier has matched such raunchiness and such visual beauty; you have to have a true respect for raunchiness to do that."
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