She's horny, he's laundering money through a second family — French marriage, 1969 style.
Annie is a middle-age wife, still sexy and pampered by her husband, Phillippe, who is the owner and general manager of a dynamic company. Under the deluge of sexy Swedish movies, sexy advertising on the streets, sexy intimate clothing in ladies' shops, and even talks about sex and marital infidelity with her mother and female friends, Annie starts feeling left aside by her husband, and trying to attract in a number of ways - and failing. It's not the all-purpose secretary at the office that is keeping him late, it's a tax expert that, asking the most innocent questions, is finding out how Philippe can manage a company without profits, and still manage a home, may be two... with high quality levels.
Acting
Annie Girardot's physical comedy of frustrated seduction
Costume
Lingerie as character development, literally
Writing
Tax fraud and adultery treated with identical banality
Director
Gérard Pirès
Annie Girardot
Annie
Jean Yanne
Philippe
Francis Blanche
Le polyvalent
Dominique Maurin
Bernard
Rufus
le comptable de Philippe
Venantino Venantini
Sylvio
Uta Taeger
Jeanne
Louisa Colpeyn
la mère d'Annie
Erna Schürer
Sylvie
Jacques Martin
le vendeur
Nicole Croisille
Florence
Jacques Higelin
Bob
Daniel Prévost
le démarcheur dessinateur
Serge Gainsbourg
l'individu dragueur au cinéma
Jacques Balutin
le chauffeur du taxi
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Released months before De Gaulle's resignation, the film captures bourgeois anxiety about changing gender roles while ignoring May '68 entirely — deliberate escapism or cluelessness?
Annie Girardot reportedly rewrote several scenes herself after finding the original script too male-gazey; her improvised supermarket seduction attempt made the final cut.
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