Women and Hollywood's Weekly Newsletter
March 10
All synopses are courtesy of press materials, unless otherwise noted.
FILMS ABOUT WOMEN AND NON-GENDERED PERSONS OPENING AND COMING TO STREAMING/VOD
How to Be a Good Wife – Written by Séverine Werba and Martin Provost
It’s 1967. The immaculate and morally upright Paulette Van der Beck (Juliette Binoche) and her husband Robert (François Berléand) have been running Van der Beck’s School of Housekeeping and Good Manners in the lush region of Alsace, France for over two decades, with the help of Paulette’s eccentric step-sister Gilberte (Yolande Moreau) and the school’s communist-fearing, ex-Resistance nun, Marie-Therese (Noémie Lvovsky). Their mission: to train teenagers to become perfect housewives, in times when women were expected to be largely subservient. After an accident turns clockwork order into chaos, Paulette discovers that the school is on the verge of financial ruin. Forced to assume executive responsibilities, she is flustered even more by an encounter with her long-lost first love, André (Edouard Baer), who becomes relentless in his desire to rekindle their romance. Meanwhile, a sweeping nationwide protest movement is transforming society around them, encouraging the school’s pupils to challenge authority and question their own desires and beliefs. Before long the entire group undertakes a journey of liberation, one that will transform all their lives.
“How to Be a Good Wife” is now available on VOD.