Overview - How to Be a Good Wife
Date of release
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Spoken Languages
- Français
Production companies
Name: Les Films du Kiosque
Production country France
Name: France 3 Cinéma
Production country France
Name: Orange Studio
Production country France
Name: uMedia
Production country
Name: Memento Films Production
Production country France
Name: Imagine Films
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Overview
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
Name: Juliette Binoche
Character: Paulette Van Der Beck
Popularity: 1.6362
Name: Yolande Moreau
Character: Gilberte Van der Beck
Popularity: 0.4242
Name: Noémie Lvovsky
Character: Marie-Therese
Popularity: 0.4995
Name: Édouard Baer
Character: André Grunvald
Popularity: 0.4538
Name: François Berléand
Character: Robert Van der Beck
Popularity: 1.1728
Name: Marie Zabukovec
Character: Annie Fuchs
Popularity: 0.3193
Name: Anamaria Vartolomei
Character: Albane Des-deux-Ponts
Popularity: 1.9459
Name: Lily Taïeb
Character: Yvette Ziegler
Popularity: 0.1772
