Dirty Dishes (1978) Plot Summary Explained

Release, runtime and language

1978 · 99 mins · French

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Directed by

Joyce Buñuel

Starring

Liliane Rovère, Liza Braconnier, Carole Laure, Pierre Santini, Bernard Haller, Daniel Sarky

Out of the frying pan and into the fire, the film follows Armelle, a housewife approaching her thirtieth birthday, trapped in an early‑1980s French domestic landscape marked by soaring unemployment. Married with two young sons, she has not held a job since abandoning a brief dancing career at twenty, and the pressure drives her toward a psychological collapse.