Dirty Dishes
A Feature film of
Produced by
Production year1978
French release19/04/1978
Runtime1 h 57 min
Synopsis
Diary of a housewife, going mad. Armelle is nearly 30, with a husband and two sons. It's the early 80s in France, unemployment is high, and she's not worked (outside the home) since she was a dancer at age 20. She cooks, cleans, shops, takes her boys to school, and her guilty pleasure is to have her hair shampooed, an addiction she tries to hide from her husband. An architect in her building leers at her. She becomes depressed and tries to find a job. When the brakes on the family car go out as she's taking it to a garage and she narrowly misses several pedestrians, she snaps. The architect assaults her, and desperation sets in. Has she any options or any hope?
Credits
Director (1)
Actors (23)
Production and distribution (3)
- Executive Producer : Stephan-Films
- Film exports/foreign sales : Wide
- French distribution : NPF Planfilm
Full credits (18)
- Executive Producer : Véra Belmont
- Screenwriter : Joyce Buñuel
- Director of Photography : François Protat
- Music Composer : Jean-Marie Sénia
- Assistant directors : Bernard Grenet, Philippe Dodet, Joëy Faré
- Editor : Jean-Bernard Bonis
- Sound recordist : Alix Comte
- Costume designer : Michèle Cerf
- Sound Assistant : Claude Bertrand
- Assistant Operator : Jean-Marie Estève
- Camera Operator : Gilberto Azevedo
- Production manager : Linda Gutenberg
- Assistant editor : Annie Miller
- Continuity supervisor : Suzanne Durrenberger
- Production Designer : Michel De Broin
- Sound Mixer : Maurice Gilbert
- Still Photographer : Stephan Holmes
- Location Manager : Bernard Granger
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Technical details
- Type : Feature film
- Genres : Fiction
- Sub-genre : Drama
- Themes : Femininity, Family
- Production language : French
- Production country : France
- Original French-language productions : Unspecified
- Production year : 1978
- French release : 19/04/1978
- Runtime : 1 h 57 min
- Current status : Released
- Visa number : 48331
- Visa issue date : 03/05/1978
- Approval : Unknown
- Production formats : 35mm
- Color type : Color
- Audio format : Mono
