Aymé Pigrenet, a recently widowed farmer, is eager to find a new wife to help him run his farm. Desperate, he seeks the aid of a local matchmaker who suggest that he go to Romania to find a new wife. There he meets Elena.
Acting
Michel Blanc's devastatingly pathetic widower energy
Writing
Mergault's script finds humor in human desperation
Direction
Mergault's delicate balance of cringe and tenderness
Director
Isabelle Mergault
Michel Blanc
Aymé Pigrenet
Medeea Marinescu
Elena
Wladimir Yordanoff
Roland Blanchot
Éva Darlan
Mme Marais
Benoît Turjman
Antoine
Élisabeth Commelin
Françoise
Valérie Bonneton
Maître Labaume
Valentin Traversi
Jean-Paul
Raphaël Dufour
Nicolas
Julien Cafaro
Thierry
Choukri Gabteni
Le patron du café
Agnès Boury
Huguette
Tadrina Hocking
Nicole
Véronique Silver
Femme "Coeur à Coeur"
Dora Doll
Catherine
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Released during EU expansion debates, the film quietly interrogates Western European exploitation of Eastern European labor and bodies without preachiness.
Mergault specifically cast Marinescu after seeing her in Romanian New Wave films, bringing authentic Eastern European cinema gravitas to this French crowd-pleaser.
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