Ma femme me quitte (1996) Directed by Didier Kaminka
Comedy
aka: My Woman Is Leaving Me
Film Synopsis
Joanna Martin and Samuel Bosquier have been together for fifteen
years. Although they are both committed to their careers - he is
a lawyer, she a television journalist - they are inseparable and hope
soon to settle down and start a family. Then, one day, a gesture
of good will threatens to drive them apart. It begins when Joanna
agrees to write a Dear John letter for the caretaker of the building
where she lives. The latter has had enough of being abused by her
violent husband, but cannot write the letter as she has a broken
arm. When Samuel comes across a draft of the letter in his
partner's handwriting he draws the obvious conclusion: she has made up
her mind to leave him. In fact, Joanna is away in Mali, making a
report on marriages of convenience. In the interests of her work,
Joanna has to marry a Hungarian émigré, Pavel Kovacks...
In the 1920s French cinema was at its most varied and stylish - witness the achievements of Abel Gance, Marcel L'Herbier, Jean Epstein and Jacques Feyder.