Le Fabuleux destin de Madame Petlet (1995) Directed by Camille de Casabianca
Comedy
aka: Madame Petlet's True Story
Film Synopsis
Madame Petlet, a redoutable woman of about fifty, leaves her small town
in the Auvergne and takes up a position in Paris as child minder to
Nathalie Reyter, a television scriptwriter. Having run short of
ideas, Nathalie decides to plunder Madame Petlet's life story for her
next TV series...
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