Femmes Fatales

Two men, fortyish, worn out by their wives, abandon everything to go and live in the back of beyond. There they meet a truculent priest, a boozer, Émile who recalls them to life's simple pleasures. Calm is what they want. But soon their example inspires thousands of disorientated males...

Cast

Jean-Pierre Marielle

as Paul Dufour

Jean Rochefort

as Albert

Brigitte Fossey

as Suzanne Dufour

Bernard Blier

as Father Émile

Claude Piéplu

as A Guerrilla

Gérard Jugnot

as A Follower

Sylvie Joly

as The Head Doctor

Dominique Lavanant

as The Myopic Woman

Claudine Beccarie

as The Gynecologist's Patient

Pierre Bertin

as The Canon

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