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Femmes Fatales

Femmes Fatales

Comedy · 1976

Two men, fortyish, worn out by their wives, abandon everything to go and live in the back of beyond. There they meet a truculent priest, a boozer, Émile who recalls them to life's simple pleasures. Calm is what they want. But soon their example inspires thousands of disorientated males...

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Femmes Fatales

1976 Comedy 1h 21m

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TMDB

6.1 / 10

Community rating

Two men, fortyish, worn out by their wives, abandon everything to go and live in the back of beyond. There they meet a truculent priest, a boozer, Émile who recalls them to life's simple pleasures. Calm is what they want. But soon their example inspires thousands of disorientated males...

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Directed by

Bertrand Blier

Written by

Philippe Dumarçay · Bertrand Blier

Jean-Pierre Marielle

Jean-Pierre Marielle

Paul Dufour

Jean Rochefort

Jean Rochefort

Albert

Brigitte Fossey

Brigitte Fossey

Suzanne Dufour

Bernard Blier

Bernard Blier

Father Émile

Claude Piéplu

Claude Piéplu

A Guerrilla

Gérard Jugnot

Gérard Jugnot

A Follower

Sylvie Joly

Sylvie Joly

The Head Doctor

Court is in session

Put Femmes Fatales on trial.

Two incompatible taste archetypes. One film. Read the arguments, then issue a completely binding cultural ruling.

The defence The Adrenaline Seeker

“Its refusal to behave is the point.”

The strange choices create the kind of friction that follows you out of the theatre and into the argument.

The prosecution The Cool Ironist

“Oddness is not depth.”

A film can break every rule and still leave nothing behind but the memory of how hard it tried to be singular.