A few stories about marriage and its problems. Antoine is about to marry Gisèle. His friend Julien, an established bachelor, desperately tries to convince him not to do it, recounting his own painful experiences.
Acting
Belmondo and Brialy's chaotic chemistry carries every frame.
Costume
Françoise Dorléac's wardrobe alone justifies the ticket price.
Director
Édouard Molinaro
Jean-Claude Brialy
Antoine Monteil
Françoise Dorléac
Françoise Bicart alias Sandra Rossen
Claude Rich
Julien
Jean-Paul Belmondo
Fernand
Marie Laforêt
Gisèle
Marie Dubois
Sophie
Catherine Deneuve
Denise
Hélène Duc
Madame Armande
Bernadette Lafont
Flora
Bernard Blier
M. Heurtin
Francis Blanche
Nino Papatakis
Micheline Presle
Isabelle Lartois
Michel Serrault
Gaston Lartois
Jacqueline Mille
la soeur de Gisèle
Tanya Lopert
Mauricette
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This was one of five films Françoise Dorléac released in 1964 alone; her tragic death three years later makes her radiant screen presence here almost unbearably poignant.
Molinaro made this smack in the middle of the Nouvelle Vague era, yet the polished studio comedy deliberately rejected the movement's gritty handheld aesthetic—it's practically a manifesto for traditional French craft.
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