Synopsis
Celine (Bernadette Lafont) is a free-spirited woman who marries a dull, middle manager named Philippe (Michel Duchaussoy) in this comedy drama. The union results in her being pegged as a household ornament for her husband by her husband's coworker. She makes friends with a woman who shows her how to juggle the couple's living expenses to get whatever material goods she desires. When the couple entertains the coworker and his wife, the drunken men suggests they swap wives. Celine strips the man and makes him look at himself in a mirror to prove he is not desirable. Celine turns to painting and writes papers on the inequity between genders as she asserts her independence and gradually frees herself from her husband's claustrophobic world.
Credits
Director (1)
Actors (14)
Production and distribution (4)
- Executive Producer : Films de la Licorne
- Foreign production company : Saroy Films
- Film exports/foreign sales : Tamasa Distribution
- French distribution : SN Prodis
Full credits (18)
- Executive Producer : Michel Cousin
- Adaptation : Christiane Rochefort, Moshé Mizrahi
- Dialogue Writer : Christiane Rochefort
- Director of Photography : Jean-Marc Ripert
- Music Composer : The Art Ensemble of Chicago
- Assistant Director : Vincent Darasse
- Editor : Dov Hoenig
- Costume designer : Michèle Cerf
- Author of original work : Christiane Rochefort
- Sound Assistant : Guy Maillet
- Assistant Operator : Max Monteillet
- Camera Operator : Daniel Gaudry
- Production Manager : Hubert Mérial
- Assistant editors : Christiane Lorenzi, Monique Prim
- Continuity supervisor : Suzanne Ohanessian
- Sound Mixer : Jean Nény
- Still Photographer : Fabrice Rouleau
- Location Manager : Armand Tabuteau
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Technical details
- Type : Feature film
- Genres : Fiction
- Sub-genre : Social comedy
- Themes : Femininity, Freedom
- Production language : French
- Coproducer countries : France, Canada
- Original French-language productions : Unspecified
- Production year : 1970
- French release : 03/02/1971
- Runtime : 1 h 30 min
- Current status : Released
- Visa number : 37647
- Visa issue date : 23/02/1971
- Approval : Unknown
- Production formats : 35mm
- Color type : Color
- Audio format : Mono
- Rating restrictions : Under 12
