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The Hairdresser's Husband

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Antoine (Jean Rochefort) has always had a thing for beautiful hairstylists. As a young boy, he lusted after the beautician who cut his hair, and vowed that one day he'd marry a hairdresser. His quest comes to an end when, as an adult, he meets gorgeous Mathilde (Anna Galiena). Their marriage doesn't dampen his erotic desire for her. If anything, he becomes even more sexually obsessed with her. In fact, the two rarely leave the hair salon, until the fateful night that Mathilde ventures outside.
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Kathleen Maher Austin Chronicle Rated: 4.5/5 Jan 1, 2000 Full Review Rene Jordan El Nuevo Herald (Miami) In the end, the public cries of sadness in between a laughing attack. [Full review in Spanish] Dec 12, 2022 Full Review Malcolm Johnson Hartford Courant The Hairdresser's Husband, while finally moving, also plays like a film that dances in a trance about a half-formed idea with a preordained ending. May 29, 2018 Full Review Emanuel Levy EmanuelLevy.Com Laconte's lyrical film is a painful tale of erotic obsession, imbued with a typically French fateful sensibility, and splendidly acted by the entire cast. Rated: A Oct 10, 2006 Full Review Daniel M. Kimmel Worcester Telegram & Gazette Rated: 4/5 Feb 8, 2004 Full Review Chris Barsanti Filmcritic.com Rated: 3/5 Jan 29, 2004 Full Review Read all reviews

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Johnson F This Patrice Leconte's contemplation on obsession and desire of the titular central character with his coiffeuse wife overwhelms with sublime happiness like hair washing albeit it closes with a sad hint that bliss in possession will not last and remembered joys are never past. Rated 3 out of 5 stars 01/22/23 Full Review Audience Member I never thought normal life would be so entertaining and pleasing to watch. This movie will make you happy and at the same time it will make you cry. Rated 5 out of 5 stars 02/05/23 Full Review Audience Member A short little flick about a boy/mans love for a hairdresser. Poetic and pretty, stylich, sweet and charming. The production, the acting and the cinematography is really good, and there is not much wrong with this film. Still it fails to blow me away or getting me super obsessed. It never got that little extra that makes it an unforgettable experience. It feature the hottest hardresser on earth and the really sensual groove is key. Somewhat entertaining, but nothing big. It's minimalistic, weird and easy to like. Dreams and obsession, often the combination, are also themes here. 7.5 out of 10 wool bathing shorts. Rated 4 out of 5 stars 01/17/23 Full Review Audience Member A bizzarre movie with uncomprehensible paradoxes. But that's what life is about. For a hairdresser's husband, his wife is everything, and that makes her life forever infinite, because her image would stuck in his mind for good. That's Kierkegaard's idea of making the finite to the eternal by receptivity to outsiders Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 02/13/23 Full Review Audience Member I don't get the high ratings at all. This movie is dull, dull, dull and the main character is a weird creep. Sure, the girl is beautiful, but some goofy old Arab guy spending an entire movie perving on a cute girl is not very interesting. The ratings on this one are wayyyy lopsided. Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 02/25/23 Full Review Audience Member awfully (bitter)sweet and romantic to the point of it being almost a love fairytale. rather diabetes-inducing, but not in a nauseating way though antoine did come across as an old perv,sorry. would've better savored the beauty of the film more if i was a hopeless romantic. Rated 3 out of 5 stars 01/19/23 Full Review Read all reviews
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Patrice Leconte

Director

Jean Rochefort

Antoine

Anna Galiena

Mathilde

Henry Hocking

Antoine - Age 12

Maurice Chevit

Ambroise Dupré dit Isidore Agopian

Roland Bertin

Antoine's father

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Synopsis Antoine (Jean Rochefort) has always had a thing for beautiful hairstylists. As a young boy, he lusted after the beautician who cut his hair, and vowed that one day he'd marry a hairdresser. His quest comes to an end when, as an adult, he meets gorgeous Mathilde (Anna Galiena). Their marriage doesn't dampen his erotic desire for her. If anything, he becomes even more sexually obsessed with her. In fact, the two rarely leave the hair salon, until the fateful night that Mathilde ventures outside.
Director
Patrice Leconte
Producer
Thierry de Ganay
Screenwriter
Claude Klotz, Patrice Leconte
Distributor
Triton Pictures
Production Co
Lambart Productions, Centre National de la Cinematographie, TF1 Films Productions
Rating
R
Genre
Romance
Original Language
Canadian French
Release Date (Theaters)
Oct 3, 1990, Original
Release Date (DVD)
Apr 28, 2009
Box Office (Gross USA)
$11.1K
Runtime
1h 23m
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