Mariées mais pas trop
| The Very Merry Widows | |
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| Directed by | Catherine Corsini |
| Produced by | Philippe Martin Jacques-Henri Bronckart |
| Written by | Catherine Corsini Philippe Blasband Christophe Morand |
| Starring |
Jane Birkin Émilie Dequenne Pierre Richard |
| Music by | Krishna Levy |
| Cinematography | Jeanne Lapoirie |
| Edited by | Yannick Kergoat |
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Les Films Pelléas
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| Distributed by | Mars Distribution |
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Running time
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89 minutes |
| Country | France Belgium |
| Language | French |
| Budget | €3.9 million |
| Box office | $345,478 |
The Very Merry Widows (French: Mariées mais pas trop) is a 2003 Franco-Belgian film directed and co-written by Catherine Corsini.
The film is a black comedy. Renée (Jane Birkin) is a wealthy widow several times over. When her orphaned granddaughter Laurence (Émilie Dequenne) turns up looking for a place to stay, she gives the naïve young woman some instruction on marriage to the rich and terminal as a means of self-enrichment. After trying a couple of local men, Laurence sets her sights on the insurance agent investigating her grandmother's latest loss, Thomas (Jérémie Elkaïm). Renée herself, on the other hand, finds herself falling in love: with Maurice (Pierre Richard).
A reviewer in Variety called the film "jauntily amoral" while noting that other critics had judged it "lame and distasteful".
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