Potiche

Potiche
Theatrical release poster
Directed byFrançois Ozon
Screenplay byFrançois Ozon
Based on
Potiche (play)
by
Produced by
  • Éric Altmayer
  • Nicolas Altmayer
Starring
CinematographyYorick Le Saux
Edited byLaure Gardette
Music byPhilippe Rombi
Production
companies
Distributed by
  • Mars Distribution (France)
  • Cinéart (Belgium)
Release dates
  • 4 September 2010 (2010-09-04) (Venice)
  • 10 November 2010 (2010-11-10) (France and Belgium)
Running time
99 minutes
Countries
  • France
  • Belgium
LanguageFrench
Budget$13.2 million
Box office$28.8 million[1]

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.[2] In French, a potiche [pɔ.tiʃ] is a decorative vase, but by extension means "window dressing" or, roughly, "trophy wife".[3] The film competed at the 67th Venice International Film Festival and received two Magritte Award nominations, winning Best Supporting Actor for Jérémie Renier.[4]

  1. ^ "Potiche (2010) - JPBox-Office". Retrieved 8 June 2022.
  2. ^ "Film profile: Potiche". Cineuropa. Retrieved 18 November 2010.
  3. ^ "Potiche press kit" (PDF). Wild Bunch. Archived from the original (PDF) on 11 September 2010. Retrieved 19 November 2010.
  4. ^ "Bouli Lanners et " Tête de boeuf ", les Magritte du cinéma belge". Le Soir (in French). 4 February 2012. Retrieved 12 January 2013.