How to Be a Good Wife (2020)
Rating: 5.7/10
Duration: 108 min
Year: 2020
Genres: Comedy
Director(s): Martin Provost
Description:
Paulette Van Der Beck and her husband have been running the housekeeping school of Bitche in Alsace for many years. Their mission is to train teenage girls to become the perfect housewives at a time when women were expected to be subservient to their husband. After the sudden death of her husband, Paulette discovers that the school is on the verge of bankruptcy and has to take her responsibilities. But while preparations are underway for the best housekeeping competition TV show, she and her lively students start questioning their beliefs as the nation-wide protests of May 1968 transform society around them. Reunited with her first love, André, and with the help of her eccentric stepsister Gilberte and strict nun Marie-Therese, Paulette joins forces with the schoolgirls to overcome their suppressed status and become liberated women.
Cast
- Juliette Binoche as Paulette Van Der Beck
- François Berléand as Robert Van der Beck
- Anamaria Vartolomei as Albane Des-deux-Ponts
- Édouard Baer as André Grunvald
- Yolande Moreau as Gilberte Van der Beck
- Armelle as Christiane Rougemont
- Noémie Lvovsky as Marie-Therese
- Marie Zabukovec as Annie Fuchs
- Lily Taïeb as Yvette Ziegler
- Pauline Briand as Corinne Schwartz
- Marine Berlanger as Residential school student
- Clémence Blondeau as Residential school student
- Marie Cornillon as Marie-Jo Lorentz
- Lauren Deguitre as Residential school student
- Clémentine Delange as Residential school student
