Aka "ma femme mon gosse et moi" (my wife,my kid and I )

Bob, a talented designer, and his young wife Marie-Blanche, a young antiques dealer, adore their only son Gégé. But over the most trivial pretexts, the couple often argue. A more serious quarrel will lead to their separation and the initiation of divorce proceedings. Gégé spends a week with one, a week with the other, each competing in tenderness towards the little one. But Gégé understood that he could perhaps initiate a reconciliation...

Marc Allégret made more movies than his brother Yves ,but the latter's are ,at least to these eyes ,much more interesting. By and large , Marc Allégret's films depend on their actors ;"l'amour est en jeu" is a good example : Lamoureux and a young Annie Girardot (then on the threshold of a brilliant career )have plenty of go and can save the most clichéd of the scenes ; the young actor playing their beloved child does not ham it up (too much)

In the fifties ,divorce was rather rare in France ;part of the reason can be found in the fact that women generally did not work and thus financially depended on their husbands .Not only the wife works here,but she's an antique dealer and she probably makes as much money as her hubby ; they have an old maid , and by the end of the film , both have their own car ;no problem to make ends meet in the mid-fifties .

That said,this is a pleasant harmless comedy , its optimism is equal to anything. A prehistoric "Kramer VS Kramer" .

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