Enfin Veuve !

After “Je vous trouve très beau”, Isabelle Mergault directs “Enfin veuve”, a movie that treats a sensitive subject with lot of humour.
It is in fact a comedy. Michèle Laroque is engaging as a woman with a hectic life: she has a lover and she has a husband she’d like to leave.
With its humoristic dialog, the public can only laugh through the movie – well, at least during the lovable part of Michele Laroque’s life.
Then, the husband dies and the protagonist thinks she is finally free to live her love affair. Everything seems to be going her way. After all, the only thing she had, and will always care about is her lover.
Unfortunately, she had forgotten about her in-laws, who don‘t want to let her live her life. Almost stalking her.
The movie ends on a sad note: the lover leaves to work in China while Laroque’s character finds herself “alone and a window,” as she says.
Here the movie relies on caricature to depict the life of a widow. But we also discover that “widowness” depends on who you are, because loosing a relative can sometimes be a relief… A relief after an impossible love affair, a sickness…
This movie allows us to look at life through rose-tinted glasses, if only for a few hours. It is a pure moment of fun and delightful clumsiness.