Trophy Wife

Trophy Wife (Potiche, 2010) is a French comedy you can watch online on iFILM, directed by François Ozon and starring Catherine Deneuve alongside Gérard Depardieu. Set in 1977, it follows Suzanne Pujol — the dutiful wife of a tyrannical umbrella-factory owner who has spent decades being decorative and ignored.

When her husband suffers a collapse during a workers' strike, Suzanne steps into the director's chair. She turns out to have a talent for negotiation, a rapport with the union, and a history with the communist mayor played by Depardieu that complicates everything. The longer she runs the factory, the clearer it becomes that she was never the passive housewife anyone assumed.

Ozon adapted a stage farce into a sharp-elbowed comedy about gender and power in provincial France. Deneuve is the whole engine of it — funny, precise, and quietly devastating. Stream Trophy Wife (2010) online on iFILM.