After learning of her husband's infidelities, a housewife invites an itinerant lesbian to move in with them. None of their lives will ever be the same again.
Acting
Victoria Abril's slow-burn from betrayed wife to chaos agent
Direction
Balasko directing herself with zero vanity, maximum mischief
Director
Josiane Balasko
Victoria Abril
Loli
Josiane Balasko
Marijo
Alain Chabat
Laurent Lafaye
Ticky Holgado
Antoine
Catherine Hiegel
Dany
Catherine Samie
Prostitute
Catherine Lachens
Fabienne, boss of the Sopha
Katrine Boorman
Emily Crumble
Véronique Barrault
Véro
Sylvie Audcoeur
Ingrid
Michèle Bernier
Solange
Maureen Diot
Cristelle
Miguel Bosé
Diego, the young man
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Released as 'Gazon Maudit' (literally 'Cursed Lawn'), this became a rare French comedy to crack the US market by sheer audacity.
Balasko wrote this after observing how French cinema treated lesbian characters as tragic or invisible—her response was to make one chaotic, horny, and fully human.
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