The very French plot device of ménage-à-trois is given a thoroughly modern update here as beautiful repressed housewife Loli (Victoria Abril, she of several Pedro Almodóvar films) falls in love with a butch, cigar-chomping visitor named Marijo (director Josiane Balasko), much to the distress of Loli's macho, philandering husband (Alain Chabat). Hubby nonetheless comes to accept the situation (how very civilised), even if it means a certain amount of negotiating over his … mehrconjugal rights. Balasko keeps the farce bubbling under nicely until events erupt to a nice boil by the climax. --Leslie Felperin weniger