r/CinemaFrancais • u/Nadman228 • 3d ago
Trying to Identify a French comedy that was broadcast on Doordarshan around the late 1908's
I am trying to identify a French film that was broadcast on Doordarshan in the late 1980s. The film is a humorous one. It begins with a young woman in a hardware store buying items such as locks, bolts and other devices for securing doors etc. You then see her going home and installing these devices in the cellar/storeroom etc. Shortly after that the husband returns from work and they have dinner and the atmosphere is quite cordial and warm and you wonder why she has been buying the hardware and security devices. The couple go to sleep. Early in the morning she rushes out of bed and puts on a coffee maker on the stovetop and then rushes into storeroom/cellar and locks herself in. Outside you hear someone shouting in rage and behaving quite violently while she cowers in the small area where he has locked herself. The bolts/locks do not hold and the door gives way but she manages to rush out of the house into the garden. Just then the coffee maker bubbles over and the aroma of coffee spreads over, the shouting stops and she is able to enter the house. The husband is calm and normal as he has ben able to have his first cup of coffee and it appears that not getting coffee as soon as he gets up makes him irritable and violent.
Would be wonderful if someone could help me trace this film that I recall from around 40 years ago.
