How to Be a Good Wife (2020)

How to Be a Good Wife (2020)

2020-03-11 France 108 Min. PG-13
5.8 219 votes

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

Juliette Binoche is Paulette Van Der Beck
Paulette Van Der Beck
Yolande Moreau is Gilberte Van der Beck
Gilberte Van der Beck
Noémie Lvovsky is Marie-Therese
Marie-Therese
Édouard Baer is André Grunvald
André Grunvald
François Berléand is Robert Van der Beck
Robert Van der Beck
Marie Zabukovec is Annie Fuchs
Annie Fuchs
Anamaria Vartolomei is Albane Des-deux-Ponts
Albane Des-deux-Ponts
Lily Taïeb is Yvette Ziegler
Yvette Ziegler
Pauline Briand is Corinne Schwartz
Corinne Schwartz
Armelle is Christiane Rougemont
Christiane Rougemont
Marine Berlanger is Residential school student
Residential school student
Clémence Blondeau is Residential school student
Residential school student