A feminist movie,which could have been the French "Thelma and Louise " long before that latter movie happened , but does not make it as a whole ; Annie Girardot was one of the best French actresses of all time and Maria Pacôme was second only to Jacqueline Maillan on stage ; this could have been a winning team,but for lack of good directing, which leaves the stars to their own devices ,they sometimes ham it up ,which excessive close ups do not help. Bernard Fresson , then Girardot's real- life partner , ironically plays Pacôme 's fickle husband , and makes his only scene counts -this excellent actor was too often relegated to supporting parts .

A taxi driver ,whom dear hubby ditched with a laconic letter ,decides she would take only women in her taxi ;she meets a bourgeois lady who suffered the same fate :her wealthy husband left her for a younger blonde ("men will always prefer two twenty-year old girls to a wife in her forties " , says the taxi driver)

So the prole and the bourgeois join forces to fight the male selfishness ; they decide to follow the fickle husband , a businessman ,and it gives the movie its best scenes ,but they are few and far between : the hubby, suffering sciatica much to his wife 's delight ("you too are not new anymore") ; the phone call in German which Girardot thwarts ; the discovery that the husband's new flame is not a blonde bimbo but a piano virtuoso ("she ain't Rachmaninov "the scowling faithful wife grumbles ") and the moving Girardot/Fresson "love" scene.

On the other hand ,too much filler, a tendency to overact by both actresses, the radio contest which comes at the most awkward moment and the final which should have been nastier .

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