A Slightly Pregnant Man
| A Slightly Pregnant Man | |
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 French poster | |
| Directed by | Jacques Demy |
| Written by | Jacques Demy |
| Starring | Marcello Mastroianni Catherine Deneuve |
| Cinematography | Andréas Winding |
| Edited by | Anne-Marie Cotret |
| Music by | Michel Legrand |
Release date |
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Running time | 92 minutes |
| Countries | France Italy |
| Language | French |
| Box office | $2.1 million[1] |
A Slightly Pregnant Man (French: L'Événement le plus important depuis que l'homme a marché sur la Lune, Italian: Niente di grave, suo marito è incinto) is a 1973 French-Italian comedy film directed by Jacques Demy.[2]
Plot
Marco (Marcello Mastroianni) is a driving instructor who is engaged to Irène (Catherine Deneuve), a hairdresser. After eating a chicken dinner, he complains to his housekeeper that she cooks chicken too frequently. He begins to feel bloated and tired and sees a doctor. The doctor determines that he is pregnant, and an expert concludes that the hormones in chicken have made him sufficiently feminine to carry a child. With his permission, the doctors publicize this event, and he becomes a model for a maternity clothing company creating a new line of paternity clothes. After a medical check it is believed that he had a hysterical pregnancy, but at the end he gives birth to a baby, notwithstanding he has no milk. In the meanwhile many other men around the world become pregnant as well.
Cast
- Catherine Deneuve as Irène de Fontenoy
- Marcello Mastroianni as Marco Mazetti
- Micheline Presle as Dr. Delavigne
- Marisa Pavan as Maria Mazetti
- Claude Melki as Lucien Soumain
- André Falcon as Scipion Lemeu
- Maurice Biraud as Lamarie
- Alice Sapritch as Ramona Martinez
- Raymond Gérôme as Gérard Chaumont de Latour
- Michèle Moretti as Ginou
- Madeleine Barbulée as Mlle Janvier
- Micheline Dax as Mme Corfa
- Benjamin Legrand as Lucas
- Jacques Legras as Leboeuf
- Myriam Boyer as Ninon Barbeau
- Andrée Tainsy as Clarisse de Saint-Clair
- Mireille Mathieu as Herself / En personne
- Tonie Marshall as The Bobino's host
References
- ^ "A Slightly Pregnant Man". JPbox. Retrieved 14 February 2014.
- ^ "NY Times: A Slightly Pregnant Man". NY Times.com. Retrieved 28 March 2009.
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