Les Inséparables

Simon (Michel Boujenah) and Antoine (Charles Berling) have known themselves for twenty years. They did not know the same professional course, nor did they live the same emotions, but, at the dawn of forty, they undergo the same test: their respective wives, Jeanne (Isabelle Gélinas) and Aline (Marie Bunel) leave them! Simon therefore arrives at Antoine's. Thus begins Inséparables, comedy - in two parts - signed Corinne Atlas and realized by Elisabeth Rappeneau. Thus funny of common life starts, between these two buddies, two fathers of the generation of the “baby-boom” who will face together with large worries and the small daily concern…

Antoine is a self proclaimed computer geek, Simon - aThe opening scene shows Simon arriving at Antoine's with nothing but a fishbowl in his hand. Such is the state of depression that he mumbles incoherently with his goldfish! photographer by profession. Simon comes along and hearing Antoine's wife complain, leaves behind a letter saying sorry. Antoine, who already is in an affair with one of his senior employer who had promised to reveal their relationship to Jeanne, panicks when he sees his wife wit Simone's letter and blurts out everything. So leaves Jeanne. Add to that, Antoine gets wild and curses his employer in front of her and the directors. Thus goes the job too. Antoine becomes a shattered man overnight. His wife, his kid now his job too.. he still does not blame Simone for all this. They both try and run the house which provides the comical part of the movie. Add to this, both their kids get fed up of their respective mothers, and come here to live with their fathers. Naturally, both the daddies end up quarreling over trifles regarding who does what and so on for the household.
Things get a turn when Simon chances upon one Reina who was a very good friend of both these men in their prime ages. Now she's a successful artist. Both instantaneously fall in love with her, and jealousy creeps in. But things end abruptly when she realises what these both are up to and so she avoids them. Sick at heart and wise now, both these men realise the only way out is to put aside their ego and bring back their wives....

French drama at its best! Worth seeing dozens of times.