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A Slightly Pregnant Man

A Slightly Pregnant Man (L'Événement le plus important depuis que l'homme a marché sur la Lune)

Movie · 1973 · 4 people

Jacques Demy wrote and directed A Slightly Pregnant Man, a French-Italian comedy made in 1973. Shot in French, its original title is L'Événement le plus important depuis que l'homme a marché sur la Lune, literally "the most important event since man walked on the moon." Running about 87 minutes, it is a satirical farce built, as its titles suggest, around the absurd situation of a man who becomes pregnant.

Marcello Mastroianni and Catherine Deneuve star. Micheline Presle, Marisa Pavan, Claude Melki, André Falcon, Alice Sapritch and Raymond Gérôme are among the named cast, and Mireille Mathieu, Tonie Marshall, Andrée Tainsy and Clément Michu also appear in the cast list.

The film's titles in other countries echo its subject. In Italy it is Niente di grave, suo marito è incinto, "No Big Deal, Your Husband Is Pregnant." In Germany it was shown as Die Umstandshose, and also under the names Hilfe, mein Mann ist schwanger and Das bedeutendste Ereignis. The Spanish title is No te puedes fiar ni de la cigüeña.

DirectorJacques Demy

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Marcello Mastroianni Marcello Mastroianni Actor · died at 72 Catherine Deneuve Catherine Deneuve Film actor · 83 years old Jacques Legras Jacques Legras Actor · died at 82 Lucienne Legrand Lucienne Legrand Actor · died at 102

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Cinephile Looks at script, editing and directing choices; keeps a distance from formula films.

Written and directed by Jacques Demy, this satirical farce rests on a single absurd idea: a man who becomes pregnant. An original title that translates as "the most important event since man walked on the moon" shows the film knows exactly how big its joke is. Seeing Marcello Mastroianni and Catherine Deneuve in the same frame is a draw in itself, and a cast backed by names like Micheline Presle and Alice Sapritch opens a wide window onto French cinema of the period. The trouble is that one-idea comedies struggle to add new layers once the initial surprise wears off, so even 87 minutes may feel long in places. A less discussed, intriguing side road in the director's work.

Family Viewer Asks whether the whole household can watch it; cares about humour and heart.

A man who gets pregnant: the idea sounds like great fun and might even catch the kids' interest. But this is a French satirical comedy, and some of the jokes may be aimed at adults, marriage and the roles of men and women. It suits teenagers and adults more than young children. A nice old film for grown-ups who love Mastroianni and Deneuve, but not a family comedy where everyone laughs at the same moments.

History & Society Lens Asks about the period, the social background and what the work reflects.

This 1973 film flips gender roles with the idea of a pregnant man, holding a mocking mirror up to the debates of its day. Having pregnancy happen to a man rather than a woman makes us ask how society loads the same experience with different meanings depending on who goes through it. The moon-landing comparison in the original title seems to poke fun at the era's sense of grand events and progress. The titles it took in other countries, from Italy's "No Big Deal, Your Husband Is Pregnant" to the Spanish one that invokes the stork, show each culture retelling the same joke in its own idiom. Watching today, it is worth remembering that some of the humour reflects its own time.

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