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Summary
French screen legends Catherine Deneuve and Gerard Depardieu team up again in Potiche, a light-hearted drama set in the 1970s that examines the prejudices women faced then and still do today.Deneuve plays the central character of Suzanne, who represents the potiche, or trophy wife of the title.Deneuve, an Oscar-nominated actress who starred in movies including Belle de Jour and Indochine, said she believed that women's place in society had improved over the last 30 years but that sexual equality was still some way off.
