This little movie owes a lot to its
main stars ,Marina Vlady and Frederic de Pasquale.This is the simple story of a laborer working overtime to give his wife a comfortable life,but who does not understand she's frustrated.While snatches of turmoil are heard on the radio,their couple runs into difficulties when she falls in love with a teacher.He epitomizes culture,a world she hardly knew(there is a very odd scene,at the beginning,showing the eleven-year old son and his mother,watching some kind of opera "the Persians";another unusual scene : on the building site,the laborers discover some kind of Venus de Milo and some of them act with it as if it were a woman in the flesh) Simone Signoret's daughter Catherine Allégret plays the occasional prostitute who appears briefly at the end .A very nice score by Georges Moustaki.
main stars ,Marina Vlady and Frederic de Pasquale.This is the simple story of a laborer working overtime to give his wife a comfortable life,but who does not understand she's frustrated.While snatches of turmoil are heard on the radio,their couple runs into difficulties when she falls in love with a teacher.He epitomizes culture,a world she hardly knew(there is a very odd scene,at the beginning,showing the eleven-year old son and his mother,watching some kind of opera "the Persians";another unusual scene : on the building site,the laborers discover some kind of Venus de Milo and some of them act with it as if it were a woman in the flesh) Simone Signoret's daughter Catherine Allégret plays the occasional prostitute who appears briefly at the end .A very nice score by Georges Moustaki.
