

How to Be a Good Wife(2020)
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Paulette Van Der Beck and her husband have been running the housekeeping school of Bitche in Alsace for many years. Their mission is to train teenage girls to become the perfect housewives at a time when women were expected to be subservient to their husband. After the sudden death of her husband, Paulette discovers that the school is on the verge of bankruptcy and has to take her responsibilities. But while preparations are underway for the best housekeeping competition TV show, she and her lively students start questioning their beliefs as the nation-wide protests of May 1968 transform society around them. Reunited with her first love, André, and with the help of her eccentric stepsister Gilberte and strict nun Marie-Therese, Paulette joins forces with the schoolgirls to overcome their suppressed status and become liberated women.
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Juliette Binoche
Paulette Van Der Beck

Yolande Moreau
Gilberte Van der Beck

Noémie Lvovsky
Marie-Therese

Édouard Baer
André Grunvald

François Berléand
Robert Van der Beck

Marie Zabukovec
Annie Fuchs

Anamaria Vartolomei
Albane Des-deux-Ponts

Lily Taïeb
Yvette Ziegler

Pauline Briand
Corinne Schwartz

Armelle
Christiane Rougemont

Marine Berlanger
Residential school student

Clémence Blondeau
Residential school student

Marie Cornillon
Marie-Jo Lorentz

Lauren Deguitre
Residential school student

Clémentine Delange
Residential school student

Juliet Doucet
Residential school student
Suzanne-Marie Gabriel
Residential school student
Elise Girard
Residential school student

Marie-Anne Guilbert
Residential school student
Sasha Herschritt
Residential school student
Margaux Houssiaux
Residential school student

Blandine Laignel
Residential school student

Andréa Mands
Residential school student
Salomé Soares
Residential school student

Julien Sibre
The “bonjour madame” assistant

Stéphane Bissot
Raymonde

Dominique Pozzetto
The priest

Philippe Morand
Mr. Schmitt

Cécile Dominjon
Birgit, the waitress at Mado

Stéphane Hausauer
Mr. Frantz, the waiter at Mado

François Hauteserre
The motorist in the traffic jam

Cécile Ribault-Caillol
Ménie Grégoire (voice)

Alex Dey
Gaëtan

Lucas Bleger
The bistro customer

Perrine Avisse
The makeup artist
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