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Shut Up When You Speak!
Why this pick
A similarly broad French farce with a familiar face, driven by escalating absurdity and playful satire rather than realism.
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MOVIE1973 1h 35m FRA
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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
Marco (Marcello Mastroianni) is a driving instructor who is engaged to Irène (Catherine Deneuve), a hairdresser. After eating a chicken dinner, he complains to his housekeeper that she cooks chicken too frequently. He begins to feel bloated and tired and sees a doctor. The doctor determines that he is pregnant, and an expert concludes that the hormones in chicken have made him sufficiently feminine to carry a child. With his permission, the doctors publicize this event, and he becomes a model for a maternity clothing company creating a new line of paternity clothes. Many other men around the world become pregnant as well. Ultimately, it is revealed that he had a hysterical pregnancy.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
Marcello Mastroianni
Marco Mazetti
Catherine Deneuve
Irène de Fontenoy
Mireille Mathieu
Herself
Maurice Biraud
Lamarie
Jacques Legras
Leboeuf
Marisa Pavan
Maria Mazetti
André Falcon
Scipion Lemeu
Micheline Presle
Docteur Delavigne