Yapım :1990 Ülke : Fransa Tür : Comedy Süre : 82 dakika IMDB Puan : 7.5/10 IMDB ID: tt0100112
A.K.A The Hairdresser's Husband
Oyuncular Jean Rochefort - Antoine Anna Galiena - Mathilde Roland Bertin - Antoine's father Maurice Chevit - Ambroise Dupré dit Isidore Agopian Philippe Clévenot - Morvoisieux Jacques Mathou - Mr. Chardon Claude Aufaure - Gay Costomer Albert Delpy - Donecker Henry Hocking - Antoine - Age 12 Ticky Holgado - Morvoisieux Son-in-Law
Bilgi :A little shaver grows up to be "The Hairdresser's Husband" in French filmmaker Patrice Leconte's unbelievably silly tale of shear bliss on the razor's edge. Drawn from Leconte's own infantile fantasies, this comedy (as it is oddly labeled) concerns a pathetic old goat's lifelong sexual obsession with women who cut only men's hair. Via a fetid and fleshy flashback, we see that it all began with the village barber, an Alsatian widow whose sumptuous bosom and tender shampoos set little Antoine on his 40-year quest to marry a hairdresser.
When we rejoin Antoine (Jean Rochefort), he has grown, if not matured, into a hound-eyed 52-year-old whose dream comes true in Mathilde (Anna Galiena), the tonsorial temptress who agrees to become his bride. They are a singularly dull but nutty couple who seldom leave the salon, where they enjoy a relentlessly active sex life with no last tangle in sight. They have neither friends nor family -- "no pregnancies to deform {Mathilde's} flat belly" -- and damn few customers either. The few who do brave their salon assure the couple that life is hell, a philosophy that appeals to Mathilde.
For whatever reason, the lovers have sealed themselves off from the world, relying on each other for emotional sustenance and the French equivalent of People magazine for intellectual stimulation. Sometimes for a change of pace, Antoine puts on his favorite Arab pop music and does a crazy dance for Mathilde, who smiles tenderly at his gawky antics. One night they get really wild and make love on the floor after drinking cocktails made of hair cologne. After spending 10 happy years in this manner, Mathilde goes out to buy yogurt in a rainstorm with tragic consequences for all concerned -- except the audience, which gets to leave.
As melodramatic as it is misogynistic, the film's conclusion is all the more ludicrous because Leconte, who co-wrote and directed the film, hasn't bothered to develop Mathilde's character. She's just a shill for his self-indulgence, treated as the celluloid equivalent of a Playboy magazine centerfold. Leconte, who previously looked at an obsessive May-December relationship in the tragic thriller "Monsieur Hire," thinks of this film as a positive and luminous cogitation on his thin subject. Apparently Leconte doesn't see anything tragic in women dying for love.
Slight, insulting and about as sexy as a bad rug, "The Hairdresser's Husband" does go on and on and on when it could have been cut and dried.
