Your ex-husband's a pompous ass. His play needs a star. You ARE the star. Drama? Delicious.
Backstage at a Paris theater, a famous, exasperatingly fatuous playwright learns that the actress who was to play the lead in his play is expecting a child. No great actress is available to take on the role. Except the famous actress Gabrielle Tristan, to whom he was married for ten years and to whom he no longer speaks. But their love of theater and their playfulness outweigh all their grudges, and Gabrielle takes on her ex-husband's play.
Writing
Wildean dialogue that slices and dazzles.
Acting
Le Poulain's magnificent buffoonery steals every scene.
Production
Evocative 1960s Paris theater world captured perfectly.
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Interdit au Public was adapted from a stage hit by Jean Marsan, who also plays Jean Bayard—blurring reality and theatrical self-reference.
Jean Le Poulain was one of France's most celebrated theatrical clowns; this film preserves his genius rarely captured on celluloid.
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