Drama

Romance

Le Bonheur

Parc Film

France

Français

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Jean-Claude Drouot

Claire Drouot

Olivier Drouot

Sandrine Drouot

Marie-France Boyer

Marcelle Faure-Bertin

Manon Lanclos

Sylvia Saurel

Marc Eyraud

Christian Riehl

Paul Vecchiali

Yvonne Dany

Agnès Varda

Hubert Monloup

Michel Choquet

Claude Beausoleil

Joseph Gerhard

Mag Bodard

Jean Rabier

Jean-Paul Savignac

Jean-Michel Defaye

Janine Verneau

Philippe Dussart

Serge Groffe

Charles Merangel

Claude François

Claude Zidi

Alex Pront

Antoine Bonfanti

Robert Cambourakis

Martha Lourdes Osorio

Jeanne Marie Olivier

Jean-Louis Malige

Agnès Soulet

Pascal Bazart

Bernard Largemains

Francine Corteggiani

Louis Hochet

Marcel Dindault

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Yves Agostini

Annie Maurel

Catherine Savignac

Laurence Clairval

Paul Bonis

Helga Romanoff

Daniele Grimberg

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Ha! Talk about having your cake and eating it! "François" (Jean-Claude Drouot) is happily married to "Thérèse" (Claire Drouot) and living in a small apartment with their two children "Pierrot" and "Gisou". They are a loving couple and seem perfectly content with life. Then "François" is despatched to do some work away from home and when calling his boss from the post office encounters "Émilie" (Marie-France Boyer) with whom he swaps a smile. That's just the beginning as the two chat a little, flirt a little and then... Now he isn't a bad man in any malevolent sense, he genuinely loves his wife and makes it clear to his new friend that she will always take priority - a situation that "Émilie" appears to be quite willing to accept - albeit reservedly. Thing is, on a family picnic he decides that it's only fair that his wife know the truth. On the face of it, at least that's an half way honest thing to do but, well you'll have to watch and see. There’s something unnervingly inconclusive about this film. Nobody is inherently bad or evil or even deliberately thoughtless, yet he is possibly one of the most selfish people I've ever seen (benignly) portrayed in cinema. He genuinely thinks his cherry-picking, almost like a job-share, arrangement will satisfy these women. It's tightly cast with a sufficient minimum of dialogue to augment a story that is surprisingly thought-provoking to watch. Maybe a little over-scored but well worth eighty minutes before a denouement that might make you want to look your own partner in the eye! Or maybe into a mirror...?

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Jean-Claude Drouot

Claire Drouot

Olivier Drouot

Sandrine Drouot

Marie-France Boyer

Marcelle Faure-Bertin

Manon Lanclos

Sylvia Saurel

Marc Eyraud

Christian Riehl

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