The Hairdresser's Husband

The Hairdresser's Husband

Infobox Film
name = "Le Mari de la coiffeuse"


image_size =
caption = VHS release cover artwork
director = Patrice Leconte
producer = Thierry de Ganay
writer = Patrice Leconte and Claude Klotz
narrator =
starring = Jean Rochefort and Anna Galiena
music = Michael Nyman
cinematography = Eduardo Serra
editing =
distributor =
released = Flagicon|France 1990, Flagicon|Spain 1991
runtime =
country = France
language = French
budget =
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website =
amg_id = 1:21281
imdb_id = 0100112

"The Hairdresser's Husband" ( _fr. Le Mari de la coiffeuse), a 1990 French film written by Patrice Leconte and Claude Klotz, and directed by Leconte. Jean Rochefort stars as the title character. Anna Galiena co-stars.

It won Patrice Leconte the Prix Louis Delluc. In 1991 it was nominated for "Best Foreign-Language Film" in the British Academy Awards.

ynopsis

The film begins in a flashback from the titular character, Antoine. We are introduced to his fixation with female hairdressers which began at a young age. The film uses flashbacks throughout and there are frequent parallels drawn with the past. Though Antoine tells Mathilde that 'the past is dead', his life is evidence that on some level the past repeats itself. As a young boy he fantasised about a hairdresser who committed suicide and as a man in his 50s he begins an affair with a hairdresser which ends after ten years in her suicide. However there are differences, Mathilde commits suicide because she is so happy she is afraid of the happiness she has found with Antoine ending.

We are unsure what Antoine has done with his life, however we know he has fulfilled his childhood ambition, to marry a haidresser. The reality proves to be every bit as wonderful as the fantasy and the two enjoy an enigmatic, enclosed and enchanting relationship. The final sequence shows Antoine, in the salon, dancing to Eastern music just as he has done throughout his life. The last line is that the hairdresser is coming though what this means is up to interpretation.

Main Cast and Crew

*Director / Writer - Patrice Leconte
*Writer - Claude Klotz
*Producer - Thierry de Ganay
*Cinematographer - Eduardo Serra
*Composer - Michael Nyman

*Jean Rochefort - Antoine
*Anna Galiena - Mathilde
*Roland Bertin - Antoine's father
*Maurice Chevit - Ambroise Dupré dit Isidore Agopian
*Philippe Clévenot - Morvoisieux
*Jacques Mathou - Mr. Chardon
*Anne-Marie Pisani - Madame Shaeffer

oundtrack

The soundtrack ( [http://www.soundtrackcollector.com/catalog/soundtrackdetail.php?movieid=7085] ) was composed by Michael Nyman and also contains a great deal of Middle Eastern popular music. It was first released as an album in Japan by Soundtrack Listeners Communications (SLC) September 21, 1992 and has subsequently been released elsewhere.

External links

*imdb title|id=0100112|title=The Hairdresser's Husband
* [http://www.allmovie.com/cg/avg.dll?p=avg&sql=1:21281~C "The Hairdresser's Husband"] at Allmovie
* [http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/hairdressers_husband/about.php "The Hairdresser's Husband"] at Rotten Tomatoes
* [http://www.iofilm.co.uk/fm/h/hairdressers_husband_1990.shtml Review of "The Hairdresser's Husband"]


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