Potiche (Blu-ray) R
France, 1977: Women's Liberation is in the air.
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Blu-ray Details
- Rated: R
- Run Time: 1 hours, 43 minutes
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: July 19, 2011
- Originally Released: 2010
- Label: Music Box Films
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Catherine Deneuve, Gérard Depardieu, Judith Godrèche, Fabrice Luchini & Karin Viard | |
Directed by | François Ozon | |
Screenwriting by | François Ozon | |
Composition by | Philippe Rombi | |
Photography by | Jean-Claude Moireau, Nicolas Schul & Patrick Swirc | |
Director of Photography: | Yorick Le Saux |
Entertainment Reviews:
3 stars out of 5 -- Ozon plays it for laughs, reveling in his pastel vision of the '70s.
Total Film
Rating: 3/4 --
It's sophisticated without being stuffy and witty without being pretentious - an utterly enchanting homage to the great comedies of yesteryear.
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From the Front Row
Rating: 3/5 --
Deneuve's combination of dignity and a determined ordinariness is just right, while Depardieu's lovelorn political beast is equally watchable.
London Evening Standard
Rating: B- --
Even though we don't really care about the dialogue or script at times, it's easy--and fun!--to be distracted by the pretty pictures.
The Playlist
[Deneuve] whisks her way through POTICHE like a cheerful Disney princess of a certain age....It's a relief to watch an actress who hasn't vested every ounce of her energy to be a younger version of herself.
Movieline
Rating: 4/5 --
It is a period pastiche executed with brilliant attention to detail and a weird, suppressed passion, like a sitcom in a bad dream.
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Guardian
Rating: 4/5 --
A warm-hearted story of a woman's rise in a man's world belies a biting satire.
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Product Description:
A trophy wife proves capable of much more than acting as an adornment for her egotistical husband in director François Ozon's adaptation of the hit play by Pierre Barillet and Jean-Pierre Grédy. Saint-Guénolé, France: 1977. Their children having long since grown up and moved out, submissive housewife Suzanne Pujol (Catherine Deneuve) spends most of her days catering to her ornery husband, Robert (Fabrice Luchini), the owner of his family's prosperous umbrella factory. But Robert is hardly a savvy businessman, so when his workers protest their poor working conditions by going on strike, the stress leads him to suffer a massive heart attack. This provides Suzanne with the perfect opportunity to finally show her true value, and with a little help from the mayor (and her former lover), Maurice Babin (Gérard Depardieu), the much ridiculed trophy wife manages to get the factory back up and running so efficiently that the exasperated, trash-talking workers are forced to eat their words. Later, Robert makes a full recovery, and resorts to some decidedly unethical tactics to wrestle back control of the factory. But Robert's hasty grab for power sparks a bitter battle of wills with his unusually shrewd wife, who isn't about to give up her newfound leadership role without a fight.