How to Be a Good Wife

How to Be a Good Wife (2024)

2024

Drama / Comedy

5.9 from 10 with total 121 votes

2020-03-11

108 minutes

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.

Juliette Binoche character Paulette Van Der Beck

Yolande Moreau character Gilberte

Noémie Lvovsky character Marie-Therese

Edouard Baer character André Grunvald

François Berléand character Robert Van der Beck

Marie Zabukovec character Annie Fuchs

Anamaria Vartolomei character Albane Des-deux-Ponts

Lily Taïeb character Yvette Ziegler

Pauline Briand character Corinne Schwartz

Armelle character Christiane Rougemont

Marine Berlanger character Elève du pensionnat

Clémence Blondeau character Elève du pensionnat

Marie Cornillon character Elève du pensionnat

Lauren Deguitre character Elève du pensionnat

Clémentine Delange character Elève du pensionnat

Juliet Doucet character Elève du pensionnat

Suzanne-Marie Gabriell character Elève du pensionnat

Elise Girard character Elève du pensionnat

Marie-Anne Guilbert character Elève du pensionnat

Sasha Herschritt character Elève du pensionnat

Margaux Houssiaux character Elève du pensionnat

Blandine Laignel character Elève du pensionnat

Andréa Mands character Elève du pensionnat

Salomé Soares character Elève du pensionnat

Juilen Sibre character L'assistant 'bonjour madame'

Stéphane Bissot character Raymonde

Dominique Pozzetto character Le curé

Philippe Morand character M. Schmitt

Cécile Dominjon character Birgit, la serveuse chez Mado

Stéphane Hausauer character M. Frantz, le serveur chez Mado

François Hauteserre character L'automobiliste embouteillage

Cécile Ribault-Caillol character Ménie Grégoire (voice)

Alex Dey character Gaëtan

Lucas Bleger character Le client du bistrot

Perrine Avisse character La maquilleuse