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How to Be a Good Wife (2020)
Directed by Martin Provost
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.
Length 108 minutes
Actors
Juliette Binoche | Yolande Moreau | Noémie Lvovsky | Edouard Baer | François Berléand | Marie Zabukovec | Anamaria Vartolomei | Lily Taïeb | Pauline Briand | Armelle | Marine Berlanger | Clémence Blondeau | Marie Cornillon | Lauren Deguitre | Clémentine Delange | Juliet Doucet | Suzanne-Marie Gabriell | Elise Girard | Marie-Anne Guilbert | Sasha Herschritt | Margaux Houssiaux | Blandine Laignel | Andréa Mands | Salomé Soares | Julien Sibre | Stéphane Bissot | Dominique Pozzetto | Philippe Morand | Cécile Dominjon | Stéphane Hausauer | François Hauteserre | Cécile Ribault-Caillol | Alex Dey | Lucas Bleger | Perrine Avisse