Karin Viard

The wife of a successful chef feels unfulfilled in her rôle as dining-room hostess and consults career counselor, who is herself dissatisfied by her useful but mundane place in the scheme of things. Without meaning to, the two women find their lives growing tangled together, with ever more complex tragicomic consequences.—Roger Downey

The Chef's Wife

The Chef's Wife (2014)

Jake Scully comes home to find his girlfriend with another man and has to find a new place. In between his acting workshops and his job in a vampire B-movie, he scans the paper looking for anything. He happens to meet Sam Bouchard, a fellow actor who needs a house sitter. Both are pleased with the arrangement that will have Jake staying in the house and for a sweetener, Sam shows him his favorite neighbor, a well-built woman who strips with her window open each night. Jake becomes obsessed with meeting her and is able to help recover her purse from a thief, but shows his own phobia, he is incapacitated by claustrophobia when the thief runs through a tunnel. When Jake witnesses a murder, he finds out that the police love to pin crimes on peeping Toms. Jake discovers that here are just too many coincidences but must hunt them down himself without the police.—John Vogel

Body Double

Body Double (1984)

Rémy, a young Parisian with an unskilled job, lives alone in his apartment. Mélanie, a young Parisienne who works in scientific research, lives alone in her apartment. Two solitary, depressive moods living in close proximity but strange to each other. Will they ever meet?—Guy Bellinger

Someone, Somewhere

Someone, Somewhere (2019)

Martial's mother owns a chain of supermarkets. He had spent some years in a mental hospital because of pervasive indolence. Hoping that an active task may improve his condition, he is sent to inspect one of the supermarkets. The manager had taken a large loan of money belonging to the firm. When exposed he expects to lose his job. Instead friendship develops between him and Martial who remitted the debt. A sexual relation begins between Francine and Martial, without jealousy from her boyfriend Fernand. Suddenly Martial disappears. He was called to his mother's sickbed. Francine took a job as a waitress. It is not clear if she understood that the owner of the bar would force her to do sexual services for some customers. To save Francine Fernand kills the owner. The only witness is Martial who says 'Run! Do you want to spend ten years in prison!' If he takes the murder on him, he will just return to the luxury hospital he recently came from. Only Francine saw a glimpse of Fernand and understood what really happened. The double sacrifice radically changed her emotions: she came to feel for Fernand as for an older brother and they parted.—Max Scharnberg, Stockholm, Sweden

A Few Days with Me

A Few Days with Me (1988)

A divorced teacher suddenly becomes jealous of everyone, including her daughter, friends and neighbors.

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The Chef's Wife

2014

Action/ Comedy/ Drama

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Duration: 90 min

IMDB Rating: 5.8

Language: fr

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Karin Viard as -Marithé Bressy

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