HOW TO BE A GOOD WIFE
by Martin Provost
Synopsis: Paulette Van Der Beck and her husband have been running a homemakers institue in Bœrsch, Alsace, for many years. Their mission is to train teenage girls to become perfect housewives at a time when women were expected to submit to their husbands.
When her husband suddenly dies, Paulette takes over and discovers that the school is on the verge of bankruptcy. But while preparations are underway for the best homemaking competition sponsored by a popular TV show, she and her lively students start questioning their beliefs as the nationwide protests of May 1968 transform society around them.
Reunited with her first love, André, and with the help of her eccentric sister-in-law Gilberte and a stern nun Marie-Thérèse, Paulette joins forces with her pupils to overcome their subservient 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.
Cast: Juliette Binoche, Edouard Baer, Yolande Moreau, Noémie Lvovsky, François Berléand.
2020 / Comedy / France / 108 min / French / Completed
Produced by Les Films du Kiosque (La Belle Epoque, Little Tickles, Standing Tall, Mr. & Mrs. Adelman).
By the director of The Midwife (Berlinale Out of Competition), Violette and Séraphine (7 French Césars including Best Film, Best Actress and Best Screenplay) / By the cinematographer of The Artist, Populaire, OSS 117 / More than 630K admissions in France (Memento Distribution)
