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5.4
/10
73 Ratings

HOW TO BE A GOOD WIFE

La bonne épouse

Directed by Martin Provost
France, 2020
Drama
  • 109109 minutes

Synopsis

Keeping your home and bending to conjugal duty is what Paulette Van Der Beck ardently teaches in her housekeeping school. Her certainties falter when she finds herself widowed and ruined. Is it the return of his first love or the wind of freedom of May 68? What if the good wife becomes emancipated?

Synopsis

Keeping your home and bending to conjugal duty is what Paulette Van Der Beck ardently teaches in her housekeeping school. Her certainties falter when she finds herself widowed and ruined. Is it the return of his first love or the wind of freedom of May 68? What if the good wife becomes emancipated?