The Very Merry Widows


The Very Merry Widows is a 2003 Franco-Belgian black comedy film directed and co-written by Catherine Corsini.

Plot

Renée is a wealthy widow several times over. When her orphaned granddaughter Laurence turns up looking for a place to stay, she gives the naïve young woman some instruction on marriage to the rich and terminal as a means of self-enrichment. After trying a couple of local men, Laurence sets her sights on the insurance agent investigating her grandmother's latest loss, Thomas. Renée herself, on the other hand, finds herself falling in love: with Maurice.

Cast

Reception

A reviewer in Variety called the film "jauntily amoral" while noting that other critics had judged it "lame and distasteful".