Fifteen years of 'perfect' marriage? Oh honey, grab the popcorn — this duck's about to burn.
Liz and Hugh have been boasting of living in perfect harmony for fifteen years. But beneath the varnish of the ideal couple loom a weariness engendered by the routine and habits born of everyday life. A travel plan will soon strike the hour for settling scores ...
Acting
Michel Roux and Nadine Alari's delicious passive-aggressive duet.
Writing
Dialogue that cuts like a butter knife — smooth, then suddenly sharp.
Direction
Mondy lets silences scream what words won't.
Director
Pierre Mondy
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Adapts William Douglas-Home's 1960s British play, transposed to French upper-middle-class milieu with surgical precision.
The title's 'duck' becomes increasingly symbolic — a golden-crusted thing that conceals something increasingly rotten underneath.
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