The Hairdresser's Husband

The Hairdresser's Husband (Le Mari de la coiffeuse, 1990) is a French romantic drama from director Patrice Leconte — watch it online on iFILM. As a boy, Antoine decided he would marry a hairdresser. He never wavered. Jean Rochefort plays the adult Antoine as a man of absolute, gentle conviction: on the day he meets Mathilde (Anna Galiena), he proposes. She says yes.

What follows is years of near-perfect contentment inside a small salon that smells of lotion and the soft click of scissors. Leconte films it all with a kind of deliberate fragility — the more complete their happiness looks, the more clearly the film signals that something this enclosed cannot hold forever. It's a love story with no antagonist, no affair, no argument played for drama, and that restraint is exactly what makes the ending arrive without warning and land without mercy. Stream The Hairdresser's Husband (1990) online on iFILM.