French cinema icons Catherine Deneuve and Gerard Depardieu came together again at the Venice film festival on Saturday as the oddest of couples in a farce with attitude: "Potiche".
French actress Catherine Deneuve arrives for the screening of "Potiche" at the 67th Venice Film Festival on September 4, 2010. "Potiche" is competing for the Golden Lion in the Venezia 67 category.
Based on a play of the same name, the comedy relates the unlikely transformation of bourgeois housewife Suzanne Pujol (Deneuve) into company executive and her complex relationship with Babin, a dyed-in-the-wool unionist played by Depardieu, 61.
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