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Potiche / Mandarin Cinéma présente ; en coproduction avec FOZ [and others] ; avec la participation de Canal + ; produit par Eric & Nicolas Altmayer ; un film de François Ozon ; scénario, adaptation, et dialogues, François Ozon.
- Format:
- Video
- Series:
- Academic Video Online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Housewives--France--Drama.
- Housewives.
- Umbrella industry--France--Drama.
- Umbrella industry.
- Strikes and lockouts--France--Drama.
- Strikes and lockouts.
- Industrial relations--France--Drama.
- Industrial relations.
- Genre:
- Feature films.
- Fiction films.
- Comedy films.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (103 minutes)
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago, IL : Music Box Films, 2011.
- Language Note:
- In French with English subtitles.
- System Details:
- data file
- Summary:
- In Potiche, it's 1977 and women's liberation is in the air but Suzanne (Catherine Deneuve) is still the self-effacing, elegant housewife of wealthy industrialist Robert Pujol (Fabrice Luchini). Pujol oversees his umbrella factory with an iron fist and is equally tyrannical with his children and & trophy housewife; When the workers go on strike and take Robert hostage, Suzanne steps in to manage the factory. To everyone's surprise, she proves herself a competent and assertive woman of action. Her new role throws her back in touch with union leader Gerard Depardieu, a romantic fling from the past that still has sparks. When Robert returns from a restful cruise looking to reassert himself, things get complicated. Directed with superb style by François Ozon ("Swimming Pool") and based on the popular 1970's French stage play by Pierre Barillet and Jean-Pierre Gredy (Cactus Flower).
- Notes:
- Title from resource description page (viewed August 18, 2017).
- Won 2010 Cinemania Film Festival, Audience Award
- Won 2012 Magritte Awards, Belgium, Best Supporting Actor (Meilleur acteur dans un second rôle) Jérémie Renier
- OCLC:
- 933548202
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