Calmos (1976)

 U.S. title: Femmes Fatales

Paul and Albert leave their wives and vow to live without women henceforth. Their wives protest and demand their return. It turns out that men from all over are doing the same. Women will not take it sitting down.

This is a essentially a one-joke movie. Though it is never realistic in the full sense of the word, the first half has some amount of narrative logic; after that it escalates into fully oneiric territory. The Wikipedia article has totally misunderstood it by claiming "it satirises [...] the rise of feminism in France". The film is not about feminism at all. It's simply an absurdist take on the battle of the sexes, the first half being a male version of Thelma & Louise. The brotherhood-of-men themes it explores have been explored earlier, albeit in a different manner, in Wake in Fright (which I reviewed yesterday), and perhaps tangentially in Home Movies a few years later.

Rating: 45