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48 heures par jour
2008 Comedy / Drama
Review
48 heures par jour is a film
that attempts to make light of a serious social issue, which is the
need for couples to balance the competing pressures of work and family
in a world where employers expect their staff to harder and
harder. It is a subject which merits serious attention since the
problem is rapidly becoming one of the great social malaises of our
time. This film does little more than remind its audience that
the problem exists, using it as the starting point for a lightweight
comedy which ultimately goes nowhere and feels like an antiquated piece
of feminist nonsense. In her first film, Catherine Castel shows
more promise as a director than as a screenwriter. Whilst the
film is technically up to scratch, the scripting deficiencies are all
too apparent – the jokes are too simplistic, the characters and
situations too clichéd - with the result that a
respectable cast is pretty well wasted. The film is watchable and
mildly entertaining, but it clearly deserves to be much better than it
is.
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Director:
Catherine Castel
Starring: Aure Atika, Antoine de Caunes, Catherine Jacob, Victoria Abril, Bernadette Lafont Synopsis
Marianne is determined to make a success of her career in
advertising. Unfortunately, her ambitions look set to be thwarted
by her high-flying husband, Bruno, who expects her to look after their
children and take on all the household duties. Out of
desperation, Marianne contrives a plan to force Bruno to shoulder his
fair share of their domestic arrangements. She tells him that her
employer is sending her to Tokyo for a few weeks. In reality, she
intends to stay in Paris. Bruno is not happy with this news but
he isn’t prepared to show his wife that he cannot cope. Besides,
he has Marianne’s mother-in-law to help him and he can always hire
someone to do the housework and look after the children. The
separation has a greater effect on Marianne, who begins to imagine all
kinds of things: the children may end up as delinquents; Bruno may have
a string of affairs with au pairs.... Marianne soon realises that
her deception wasn’t such a good idea...
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