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De l'autre côté du lit

De l'autre côté du lit

Movie · 2008 · 15 people

Pascale Pouzadoux directed De l'autre côté du lit, a 2008 French comedy starring Sophie Marceau and Dany Boon. Shot in French and running about 93 minutes, it is built on a single comic premise: a married couple who want to save their relationship agree to live each other's lives for a full year. In English it is known as Changing Sides, in Spanish as Cambio de papeles and in German as Auf der anderen Seite des Bettes.

The story follows Ariane and Hugo, a couple ten years into their marriage. To get things moving again they swap roles. Ariane takes over the running of a company that rents out building-site equipment, while Hugo stays at home and starts selling jewelry from door to door. Each of them ends up carrying the other's daily workload, and that experience slowly changes how they see one another. The supporting cast includes Roland Giraud, Anny Duperey and Antoine Duléry, along with Arnaud Lemaire, François Vincentelli and Marius Colucci.

Pouzadoux wrote the screenplay with Grégoire Vigneron, adapting a novel of the same title by the French author Alix Girod de l'Ain. Filming took place on location in Paris.

DirectorPascale Pouzadoux

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Sophie Marceau Sophie Marceau Actor · 59 years old Roland Giraud Roland Giraud Actor · 84 years old Dany Boon Anny Duperey Armel Antoine Duléry Armelle Arnaud Lemaire Arsène Mosca François Vincentelli Juliette Arnaud Arièle Semenoff Marius Colucci Pascale Pouzadoux Grégoire Vigneron

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

An easy-going family comedy. A husband and wife who swap roles for a year show each other how tiring both housework and working life can be. The message is a nice one: to understand your partner, step into their shoes. Since it's about marriage troubles, it won't mean much to young children. A pleasant evening film for teenagers and adults, especially couples.

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

The film loads everything onto one comic idea: a couple ten years into their marriage swapping lives for a year. The problem with role-swap comedies is that they spend their promise in the first half hour and leave the rest to repetition, and this one doesn't fully escape that trap. The contrast between Ariane, now running a company that rents out building-site equipment, and Hugo, selling jewelry door to door, produces comic situations, yet you sense the plot is in no hurry to move to its next stage. The on-screen energy of Sophie Marceau and Dany Boon is what really carries it, and the real Paris locations lend the story a natural feel. A pleasant adaptation that never gets past the formula.

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

Beneath the film lies a fairly serious question: the invisible division of load between domestic work and working life. Ariane running a company that rents out building-site equipment while Hugo stays home and sells jewelry door to door turns the usual gender roles upside down. The comedy makes this reversal its source of laughs; still, the fact that each partner can grasp the other's daily exhaustion only by living it is an apt observation on middle-class marriage in the 2000s. It chooses to keep the gender debate light rather than deepen it, but it does invite viewers to take a look at their own homes.

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