How to Be a Good Wife (La bonne éspouse)

Five Funny French Films

How to Be a Good Wife (La bonne éspouse)

Directed by Martin Provost
(France/Belgium, 2020, digital, in French with English subtitles)

How to Be a Good Wife stars Juliette Binoche as the prim-and-proper Paulette. In 1968 France, as she tries to keep her boarding school afloat while reconnecting with her first love (Edouard Baer), unexpected events prompt Paulette to embrace feminism.

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Generous support has been provided by L’Alliance Française de Houston, Franci Neely, Melanie Gray and Mark Wawro, and Nina and Michael Zilkha.

How to Be a Good Wife (La bonne éspouse)

Directed by Martin Provost
(France/Belgium, 2020, 109 minutes)
Brown Auditorium Theater

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Caroline Wiess Law Building
1001 Bissonnet Street
Houston, TX 77005
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