Following his Oscar win in Hollywood, Florian Zeller returns to Anthéa with Stéphane De Groodt, Sylvie Testud and Clotilde Courau.
It’s a very bad idea to cheat on your wife with your best friend’s wife. But since the cuckolded wife is cheating on her husband with that very same best friend, there’s a nice symmetrical reciprocity! One could imagine, then, a calm routine, polite unspoken understandings, implicit agreements, and even—why not?—relaxed dinners. But here’s the thing: everyone thinks it’s necessary to lie, and that it’s just as necessary to uncover the truth. The cheaters don’t want to go to their graves in the dark, you see. So off we go with the intense interrogations, the blatant bad faith, the preaching of falsehoods to extract the truth, and the indignant denials: the marital police are in full swing!
