The very French plot device of ménage-à-trois is given a thoroughly modern update here as beautiful repressed housewife Loli (Victoria Abril, she of several Pedro Almodóvar films) falls in love with a butch, cigar-chomping visitor named Marijo (director Josiane Balasko), much to the distress of Loli's macho, philandering husband (Alain Chabat). Hubby nonetheless comes to accept the situation (how very civilised), even if it means a certain amount of negotiating over his conjugal rights. Balasko keeps the farce bubbling under nicely until events erupt to a nice boil by the climax. --Leslie Felperin
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Avg. Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0
It's good - don't be put off by the subtitles! This film is a good bet for that vaguely cultural smug feeling that comes from watching a film with subtitles, whilst not being in that headache-inducingly lofty stratosphere of intellectualism inhabited by certain other French films (naming no names...) In other words, it's good fun. If you can suspend your disbelief in the rather tenuous plotline, it is charming and whimsical in the best French tradition (for any fans of French comedy - it's got the same slightly loopy feel to it as 'Amelie' or 'La vie en... more info
A bright, witty and observant comedy Loli, played by Victoria Abril, has given up a promising career as a dancer to become the wife of a womanising estate agent; and though she knows of one woman he has had an affair with and has forgiven him, she knows nothing about any of the others - not even her own baby-sitter! No. Her main complaint against him is not his promiscuity but that he takes her for granted and shows her little affection. So, when a butch lesbian, played by Josiane Balasko, appears on the scene, stopping at the house to ask for... more info
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