A 50-year-old woman ghosted by her husband? Time to hunt him down with your chaotic sister.
Several lives intersect when a middle-aged woman is left by her husband, and she decides to trek him down with the help of her equally troubled sister.
Acting
Lafont and Ogier's deliciously unhinged sister chemistry.
Direction
Vernoux's wry, unsentimental gaze at female midlife crisis.
Director
Marion Vernoux
Bernadette Lafont
Annie
Bulle Ogier
Françoise
Lio
Marie
Michèle Laroque
Marie-Christine 'Cricri'
Maaike Jansen
Dizou
Jean-Pierre Léaud
Lucien
André Marcon
Jacques Meyer
Antoine Chappey
Pierre
Boris Bergman
L'homme au bar
Yann Collette
Jean-Yves
Isabelle Petit-Jacques
Lucie
Paul Minthe
Michel
Diane Pierens
Agnès
Anne Gautier
Patricia
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Part of a 1990s wave of French 'féminin mûr' cinema centering women over 50 as complex, desiring protagonists—still radical then, still rare now.
Bernadette Lafont was a Nouvelle Vague icon (Truffaut's 'Les Mistons')—this was her late-career triumph as a leading lady, not grandmother.
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