Overview - How to Be a Good Wife

Date of release

Genres

  • Comedy

Runtime: 108 minutes

Homepage: How to Be a Good Wife

Budget

Budget data not disclosed

Revenue

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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

    Production country

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

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  • Name: Yolande Moreau

    Character: Gilberte Van der Beck

    Popularity: 0.4242

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  • Name: Noémie Lvovsky

    Character: Marie-Therese

    Popularity: 0.4995

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  • Name: Édouard Baer

    Character: André Grunvald

    Popularity: 0.4538

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  • Name: François Berléand

    Character: Robert Van der Beck

    Popularity: 1.1728

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  • Name: Marie Zabukovec

    Character: Annie Fuchs

    Popularity: 0.3193

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  • Name: Anamaria Vartolomei

    Character: Albane Des-deux-Ponts

    Popularity: 1.9459

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  • Name: Lily Taïeb

    Character: Yvette Ziegler

    Popularity: 0.1772

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