Les Compagnons de la marguerite (1967) - film review

An expert in restoring old manuscripts at the National Library, Jean-Louis Matouzec is not a happily married man, but his wife Françoise refuses to give him a divorce.  One day, he has a brainwave: to find another unhappily married couple who would be prepared to swap partners.  The man would marry Françoise and the woman would become Matouzec’s new wife.  Matouzec can then pop along to the town hall and use his own particular skills to falsify the entries in the wedding registry. To find such a couple, Matouzec places an ad in the local newspaper.  So that the two couples can recognise one another, they must each wear a daisy.  When the local police department comes across the ad they mistakenly believe that a new gang of crooks is about to be formed, so Inspector Leloup is assigned to start an investigation.  A short while later Leloup is surprised when his wife leaves him for Matouzec, and is even more surprised when Françoise turns up to take his wife’s place...
© Willems Henri (Brussels, Belgium)

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