For Better or For Worse (1975)

Original title

Pour le meilleur et pour le pire

Directed by

Claude Jutra

Genre

comedy

Country

Canada

Runtime

1h 57m

Rating

6.2 of 10 from 5 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A middle-aged married couple's stale relationship gets shaken up when the husband wrongly suspects his wife of having an affair. Their fight leads them to rediscover their appreciation for each other over the course of a day.

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What happens

For Better or For Worse (French: Pour le meilleur et pour le pire) is a Canadian comedy film, directed by Claude Jutra and released in 1975. The film centres on a day in the life of Bernard (Jutra) and Hélène (Monique Miller), a married couple in middle age whose relationship has grown stale, but who reach a renewed understanding and appreciation of each other after a fight brought on by Bernard's mistaken belief that Hélène is having an affair. Its cast also includes Monique Mercure, Paul Savoie, Pierre Dufresne and Roger Garand. The film was screened out of competition at the 1975 Cannes Film Festival. It had its Canadian premiere in September at the Stratford Film Festival, before opening commercially in October. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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