Two comedians weaponize their shared trauma into 90 minutes of marital chaos.
A couple of comedians attempt (they never agree) to tell the story of how they met and their picturesque careers in the arts. Guy recounts with dark humor the circumstances of his first, unhappy marriage, his family dramas, his early days as an extra... Sophie describes her professional and sentimental adventures with a friend, Manon, in a no less hard-hitting style. Following a trip to Italy, the two young women end up in a center for "single mothers", whose atmosphere is more reminiscent of a barracks. A few years later, Sophie's son Balthazar attends his mother's wedding to Guy and takes part in the couple's whimsical life.
Acting
Real-life ex-spouses weaponizing their actual divorce on screen.
Writing
Dueling unreliable narrators who can't even agree on their own love story.
Direction
Pierre Badel lets the performers devour the frame with chaotic confidence.
Director
Pierre Badel
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Bedos and Daumier were France's 'it' comedy couple in the 1960s; their real 1968 divorce made this 1971 reunion a national curiosity.
The 'single mothers center' scenes were shot at an actual facility, with residents as background performers—Daumier insisted on this.
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