Les Oeufs de l'autruche (1957)
Directed by Denys de La Patellière

Film Synopsis

Hyppolite Barjus is a respectable man, comfortably settled in his bourgeois existence.  He thinks that his wife Thérèse and two sons Charles and Roger are living happily because money is not a problem.  But Barjus is a vain and authoritarian man who has in fact totally lost interest in his family - well almost.   One thing that does concern him is his eldest son Charles, so he invites his best friend Henri over to discuss the matter with him.  When Barjus reveals he is disappointed in his son's decision to become a couturier instead of an insurance agent, Henri is forced to let his fiend in on an uncomfortable truth - Charles, nicknamed Lolo by his mother and grandmother, is gay.  Scandalised by this revelation, Barjus blames his wife and stepmother for Charles' behaviour, but Thérèse says it is on account of his selfishness and blindness to what is going on around him.  Barjus's worries are far from over, because Thérèse then tells him that his youngest son Roger, to whom Barjus doesn't give a lot of money, is living at the expense of Yoko, a Japanese countess...