The Price to Pay

The Price to Pay (Le Prix à payer, 2007) is a French comedy from director Alexandra Leclère that you can watch online on iFILM. Wealthy Jean-Pierre has everything money buys, yet he eats lunch alone and sleeps alone — his wife Odile lights up only inside a boutique.

Out of sheer loneliness he invites his chauffeur, Richard, to join him at the table one day, and the two men discover their home lives are nearly identical. A friendship forms fast, built on the same bruised suspicion: are they anything more than walking cash machines for the women they married? Jean-Pierre decides to fight back and quietly confiscates his wife's credit card. From there the little war between husbands and wives spirals well past anything he'd planned, and the bill comes due in ways he never expected.

Christian Clavier, Gérard Lanvin and Géraldine Pailhas lead the cast. Leclère builds a sharp, mean little farce about marriage, money and wounded pride, where every spouse is half right and fully ridiculous. One for fans of French comedies with bite and no sugary ending. Stream The Price to Pay (2007) online on iFILM.