A French mom buying condoms while her son fails at life? Peak suburban chaos.
Handsome Jules has problems with school and girls. His domineering dad doesn't make matters easier, although his mom is supportive of her only child. Contemplating an extramarital affair, Claude Jade attempts to discreetly shop for condoms, a cute twist on what is traditionally a teenage boy's awkward ordeal.
Acting
Claude Jade's mortified condom-shopping face is cinema.
Writing
Teen boy problems + mom's affair = delicious parallel humiliation.
Director
Charles Nemes
Guillaume de Tonquédec
Jules Martin
Claude Jade
Gabrielle Martin
Philippe Khorsand
Paul Martin
Guillaume Gallienne
Castagnier
François Berléand
Alain Denizet
Éric Elmosnino
Christian Ribet
Cécile Pallas
Cécile
Jean-Paul Roussillon
Albert Croquebeois
Evelyne Buyle
Geneviève Fournet
Patrick Guillemin
Vachette
Kathy Kriegel
Delphine
Mathias Mégard
Didier Portman
Léa Drucker
Solange
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Claude Jade was a Truffaut muse (Antoine Doinel films); this was her late-career pivot to suburban comedy.
The title refers to French honor roll students—ironic given Jules's academic catastrophe and his father's obsession with status.
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