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Catherine Deneuve & Francois Ozon Interview
We speak to Catherine Deneuve and Francois Ozon about Potiche…
French actress Catherine Deneuve and director Francois Ozon talk about reworking Pierre Barillet and Jean-Pierre Grédy's play Potiche, and reuniting after working together on 8 Women, nine years ago...
Set in 1977 in a provincial French town, Potiche is a free adaptation of the 1970s eponymous hit comic play. Catherine Deneuve is Suzanne Pujol, a submissive, housebound trophy housewife (or "potiche,") who steps in to manage her wealthy and tyrannical husband’s (Fabrice Lucchini) umbrella factory after the workers go on strike and take him hostage. To everyone's surprise, Suzanne proves herself a competent and assertive woman of action. But when her husband returns from a restful cruise in top form, things get complicated. Gerard Depardieu plays a former union leader and Suzanne's ex-beau who still holds a flame for her. Acclaimed writer-director Francois Ozon (Swimming Pool, Under the Sand) who had previously directed Ms. Deneuve in 8 Women, twists the original play on its head to create his own satirical and hilarious take on the war between the sexes and classes.
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