Trophy Wife

“The trophy is coming off the shelf.”

Suzanne Pujol (Catherine Deneuve) has spent her marriage in a tracksuit, jogging the grounds and writing small verses, and she wants nothing more than to keep the household calm. Then the workers at her husband Robert's umbrella factory strike in 1977, and Robert (Fabrice Luchini) collapses with a heart attack, leaving her the desk. François Ozon puts a decorative wife in charge of her father's business, and the film is about who gets to be called useful.