HollywoodChicago.com Hookup: 10 Pairs of Chicago Anytime Passes to ‘Potiche’ With Gérard Depardieu

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CHICAGO – In our latest French comedy edition of HollywoodChicago.com Hookup: Film, we have 10 admit-two run-of-engagement movie passes up for grabs to the new film “Potiche” with Gérard Depardieu and Catherine Deneuve!

“Potiche” also stars Jérémie Renier, Judith Godrèche, Karin Viard, Fabrice Luchini, Sergi López, Évelyne Dandry, Bruno Lochet, Elodie Frégé, Gautier About, Jean-Baptiste Shelmerdine, Noam Charlier, Martin De Myttenaere and Yannick Schmitz from writer and director François Ozon.

The film has been nominated for four Césars (France’s equivalent of the Oscars): best actress (Catherine Deneuve), best supporting actress (Karin Viard), best adapted screenplay (François Ozon) and best costume design. The film is also an official selection at the 2010 Venice Film Festival and the 2010 Toronto International Film Festival.

To win your free pass to a Chicago showing of “Potiche” from Music Box Films courtesy of HollywoodChicago.com, just answer our question below. That’s it! Directions to enter this Hookup and immediately win can be found beneath the graphic below.

The movie poster for “Potiche” with Gérard Depardieu and Catherine Deneuve.
Image credit: Music Box Films

Here is the plot description for “Potiche”:

Set in 1977 in a provincial French town, “Potiche” is a free adaptation of the 1970s eponymous hit comic play. Catherine Deneuve is Suzanne Pujol: a submissive, housebound “trophy housewife” (or “potiche”) who steps in to manage the umbrella factory run by her wealthy and tyrannical husband (Fabrice Luchini) after the workers go on strike and take him hostage. To everyone’s surprise, Suzanne proves herself a competent and assertive woman of action.

But when her husband returns from a restful cruise in top form, things get complicated. Gérard Depardieu plays a former union leader and Suzanne’s ex-beau who still holds a flame for her. Acclaimed writer/director François Ozon (“Swimming Pool,” “Under the Sand,” “Time to Leave”), who had previously directed Deneuve in the international hit “8 Women,” twists the original play on its head to create his own satirical and hilarious take on the war between the sexes and classes.

“Potiche” reunites French cinema legends Catherine Deneuve and Gérard Depardieu in an ensemble cast that includes comic greats Fabrice Luchini and Karin Viard (as Luchini’s secretary and mistress) while Judith Godrèche and Jérémie Renier play the Pujols’ entitled daughter and sexually ambiguous son. The impeccable 1970s era set design and costumes were created by Katia Wyzkop and Pascaline Chavanne respectively.

The movie trailer for “Potiche” can be watched now below.

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