How to Handle Men
| How to Handle Men | |
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| Directed by | Perrine Gosselin |
| Story by | Perrine Gosselin |
| Produced by | Margot Allard |
| Edited by | Eléonore Gosse |
Production company | Quality Pictures |
| Distributed by | Quality Pictures |
Release date | 12, January 1927 |
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| Country | Federation of the Southern Coast |
| Language | Silent (Frakanic intertitles) |
How to Handle Men is a 1927 Côtois silent comedy film directed by Perrine Gosselin, staring Placide Mercier and Adélaïde Tremble (dressed as a man.) The film was produced and distributed by "Images de Qualité" (Codexian: Quality Pictures) which later was liquidated by the government. Shortly after being shown in theaters, the film was marked by the Federation's government for removal during the Mending the Land, due to the sexism and pro-Hjørdist portrayal in the film. Forcing the movie to be introduced into lost film status for nearly a full century until it was discovered, Perrine Gosselin grand daughter Amélie Gosselin donated the film into the Library of Côtoise Culture in 2020. The film suffered damage, but was still watchable with majority of the footage intact. Amélie donated the film, along with several others of her mother's work that was suppressed during the Mending the Land policy. The film was filled with slapstick comedy towards the husband by the wife, which the is considered to be offense by Côtois standards. Though Hjørdist gothirs and scholars of the faith, as well the daughter of Perrine stated that the film was actually pointing fun at the Yvonne rather than approving of the slapstick towards the husband.
Plot
Yvonne Lécuyer (Placide Mercier), is a engineer trying to get the new government of the Federation to rebuild a Hjørdist Temple in order to get work after being blacklist by the government. Her husband, Laurent Hébert (Adélaïde Tremble) is a stereotypical Hjørdist man who was a formally a house husband, but is forced to find employment as brickmason. The mild-manner Laurent is roped into his wife's scheme to rebuild the temple after she convinces him that he can be a youth gothir and run the daycare at the temple after it gets built. The couple use their children to distract the newly elected Mayor, a Akuanist as Laurent slips in a order to have the temple to be rebuilt. However due to the children distraction of the mayor, the mayor's briefcase falls into a river and Yvonne jumped into the river to save the briefcase. The mayor thanks the engineer and continue on her way. Later the pair thank their children by visiting the ruins of the temple, and then noticing the temple was perfectly fine. Having no damage at all, as it turns out no one in the family having to actually going to the temple for years. The children of the family having to distract the mayor again as Yvonne steals the briefcase. Where she finds, that the mayor wasn't the one incharge of rebuilding village at all, and her briefcase was completely empty besides their work order and a bottle of vodka.
The film ending was lost due to damage over the years, but according to Perrine journal. The ending had Laurent being hit over the head with a newspaper by his wife for not taking the kids to the temple for service for years.