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Georges is an estate agent, and he has a mistress. During a weekend romantic trip to Venice, the cat is let out of the bag to his wife and simultaneously his mistress's lover finds out what is going on, and his life starts to get really complicated.
By chance, M. Lappin arrives; he is a charity worker, anxious to help anyone, and he is persuaded to pretend to be Georges' wife to fool some wealthy people who are coming to buy the expensive apartment his mother-in-law has paid for.
The mistress's lover comes to the flat and is attracted by Lappin, but he goes berserk when he suspects that Georges is hiding in the flat; the only way out is for Georges himself to put his wife's clothes on.
The film is based on a successful stage play, and the French theatre has a tradition of very funny farces involving multiple mistaken identities and embarrassing situations, and this story follows in that tradition. However, the action is a little jerky and occasionally runs out of steam; to enjoy it as a film you have to sit back and just let the action happen. Most of the French press critics were not prepared to do so, and the film got a bad press.
The film has been released in North America under the title My Wife Maurice.
HF February 2002
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