MOVIE · 2009

Changing Sides

Comedy93 min

After ten years of marriage, Ariane and Hugo try an extreme fix for their stalled routine: they swap lives for a year. Sophie Marceau is Ariane, suddenly running a construction-equipment rental company, while Dany Boon’s Hugo takes over the home front and works as a jewelry salesman making house calls. In Paris, their attempt to escape the hamster wheel of work, family, and mutual frustration turns into a comedy of role reversal, as each of them discovers the pressures and blind spots built into the other’s daily life. The marriage stays at the center, with adultery fears and simmering resentment close behind.