Mme Bigeard
Claude Chabrol film for TV based on the short story An Invitation to the Hunt by Georges Hitchcock. Receiving an unexpected invitation to participate in the annual hunt party given by the local marquis, a common man deludes himself into thinking he’s a valued member of society, gets in debt to live up to his own fantasies, puts on airs, and invents a perfectly untrue—but, to his mind, fitting—past for a man of his new station. Then the cruel game starts.
Nicole
파리에 사는 중년의 네 남자, 파일럿인 마르첼로, 방송국 종사자 미첼, 주방장 우고 그리고 판사 필립. 그들의 삶은 부유하고 안락해 보이지만, 반복되는 삶에 대한 권태와 남모르는 정신적인 박탈감을 안고 있다. 필립의 외딴 빌라에 모여 그들은 먹고 마시고 섹스만 하는 이상한 게임을 시작한다. 마르코 페레리 감독은 이 영화에서도 이유도, 목적도 없는 유럽사회의 천박한 소비주의를 끔찍하게 묘사하고 있다.
L'épouse du ministre
Louis-Philippe Fourchaume, another typical lead-role for French comedy superstar Louis de Funès, is the dictatorial CEO of a French company which designs and produces sail yachts, and fires in yet another tantrum his designer André Castagnier, not realizing that man is his only chance to land a vital contract with the Italian magnate Marcello Cacciaperotti. So he has to find him at his extremely rural birthplace in 'la France profonde', which proves a torturous odyssey for the spoiled rich man; when he does get there his torment is far from over: the country bumpkin refuses to resume his slavish position now the shoe is on the other foot, so Fourchaume is dragged along in the boorish family life, and at times unable to control his temper, which may cost him more credit then he painstakingly builds up...
