Potiche

Potiche is a 2010 comedy film written and directed by François Ozon, based on the play of the same name by Pierre Barillet and Jean-Pierre Gredy. It stars Catherine Deneuve, Gérard Depardieu, Fabrice Luchini, Karin Viard, Judith Godrèche and Jérémie Renier. Set in 1977, the film tells the story of a submissive wife who gets to run her husband's umbrella factory, after the employees rebel against their tyrannical manager. In French, a potiche is a decorative vase, but by extension means "window dressing" or, roughly, "trophy wife". The film competed at the 67th Venice International Film Festival and received two Magritte Award nominations, winning Best Supporting Actor for Jérémie Renier.

==Plot== In 1977, in the fictional small French town of Sainte-Gudule, Nord, Suzanne Pujol is the submissive trophy wife of Robert, the president of the umbrella factory founded by Suzanne's late father. Tyrannical and reactionary, Robert often patronizes Suzanne, treats his workers with contempt and is having an affair with his secretary Nadège. Suzanne and Robert have two adult children; daughter Joëlle, the conservative wife of a constantly traveling businessman and mother of two young children, is considering divorcing her husband, while son Laurent, a liberal-minded and artistically inclined student, is engaged to a frequently absent woman.