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Despite boardroom shenanigans, heart attacks, liberal promiscuity and family betrayal several times over, nothing ever seems too serious. There are issues inherent to the plot the position of women in society, business and family; the rights of the workers and maternalistic management vs rampant profit motive that provide a solid emotional bedrock which needs little exploitation to prop up the jolly goings-on. Ozon directs briskly, with touches of sitcom style and great fondness for his characters and setting (the umbrellas as much Tati as Demy) and best of all it's a worthy vehicle for the wonderful Deneuve. She's radiant, of course, regally elegant (she honors the workers by wearing the jewels their labour bought her) and deliciously funny.
The instinctive intelligence and thoughtfulness of her character balance the farce, and that link to a real emotional world is all Ozon needs to affirm that, whilst things may have changed a great deal in 33 years, in some ugly respects they look remarkably similar. It is to his credit therefore, that the high-pitched candy coating makes such consistently amusing fun of it.
Venice is this year becoming a festival notable for high drama and high camp, and so it proves again with this enjoyable, farcical French picture from the prolific master craftsman Franois Ozon, based on a 1980 stage play by Pierre Barillet and Jean-Pierre Gredy.
It's a wacky 70s-period screwball comedy with a blue-chip cast and a tone which is arch, knowing and self-aware but also somehow affectionate and even, I suspect, deeply serious about the indomitable spirit of France itself, in the queenly person of Catherine Deneuve. It is a veritable palimpsest of irony levels; perhaps only a French audience can fully respond to its nods and winks
The British film industry might produce an equivalent, perhaps, by hiring Michael Winterbottom to direct a post-modernised screen adaptation of a Brian Rix farce, using stylistic hints and surviving cast members from Carry On and Are You Being Served? but even this wouldn't be precisely the same thing.
Catherine Deneuve gives an unmistakably regal performance as Suzanne Bujol, a potiche, or trophy wife, to Robert (Fabrice Luchini) the wealthy, reactionary owner of an umbrella factory in 1977; he patronises his wife and is alienated from his grown-up children (played by Jrmie Renier and Judith Godrche.)
