The Very Merry Widows
{{Infobox film
| name = The Very Merry Widows
| image = Mariées mais pas trop.jpg
| caption = Film poster
| director = Catherine Corsini
| producer = Philippe Martin
Jacques-Henri Bronckart
| writer = Catherine Corsini
Philippe Blasband
Christophe Morand
| starring = Jane Birkin
Émilie Dequenne
Pierre Richard
| music = Krishna Levy
| cinematography = Jeanne Lapoirie
| editing = Yannick Kergoat
| studio = Les Films Pelléas
| distributor = Mars Distribution
| released = {{Film date|2003|07|09|France|2003|8|20|Belgium|df=y}}[http://www.allocine.fr/film/fichefilm_gen_cfilm=49759.html "Mariées mais pas trop"], AlloCiné, retrieved 7 April 2014 {{in lang|fr}}
| runtime = 89 minutes
| country = France
Belgium
| language = French
| budget = €3.9 million{{cite web|url=http://www.jpbox-office.com/fichfilm.php?id=1621|title=Mariées mais pas trop |work=JP's Box-Office}}
| gross = $345,478{{cite web|url=http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/intl/?page=&wk=2003W28&id=_fMARIEESMAISPASTR01|title=Mariees mais pas trop |work=Box Office Mojo}}
}}
The Very Merry Widows ({{langx|fr|Mariées mais pas trop}}) is a 2003 Franco-Belgian film directed and co-written by Catherine Corsini.
Plot
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).All Movie Guide, [https://web.archive.org/web/20140413091832/http://www.nytimes.com/movies/movie/290734/Mariees-Mais-Pas-Trop/overview "Mariees Mais Pas Trop (2003)"], Movies, The New York Times, 2010.
Cast
- Jane Birkin as Renée
- Émilie Dequenne as Laurence
- Pierre Richard as Maurice
- Clovis Cornillac as Alexis
- Jérémie Elkaïm as Thomas
- Laurent Grévill as Jean-Daniel
- Amira Casar as Claudia
- Pierre Laroche as Georges
Reception
A reviewer in Variety called the film "jauntily amoral" while noting that other critics had judged it "lame and distasteful".Lisa Nesselson, [https://variety.com/2003/film/reviews/the-very-merry-widows-1200540517/ "Review: 'The Very Merry Widows'"], Variety, 15 July 2003.
References
{{Reflist}}
External links
- {{IMDb title|0339572}}
{{Catherine Corsini}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Very Merry Widows}}
Category:Films directed by Catherine Corsini
Category:2000s French-language films
Category:French-language Belgian films
Category:Films scored by Krishna Levy