and finds a job in the Van der Beck’s School of Housekeeping and Good Manners, so Grunvald's letters never reached her. In the school the manager, Robert, falls in love with her and they marry. In the meantime, Grunvald had two kids but his wife has died. He ask Paulette to get back together with him again. Paulette hasn't decided yet. Back in school, one of the young women receives news that she is to marry a man the age of her father. She attempts suicide, but is saved in the last minute by the other young women who discovers her hanging on a noose. After the suicide attempt, Paulette lies in bed, despairing that everything the school stands for is wrong as it subjugates women. She is meant to go with the young women to a housekeeping fair in Paris meant for young women. Initially Paulette considers cancelling the trip to Paris, but finally agrees to take the women to Paris. Grunvald comes to the school and wants to be with her and climbs on the piping to her bedroom. Paulette only lets him off the pipe and into her bedroom after making him promise that he will do the cooking in their household, and making him give the details of an apple strudel before letting him into her room. They have sex in her room, and then Paulette joins the bus with the young women and the staff, for the trip to Paris. During the bus trip, they hear on the radio that students riots shut down Paris. As they approach the outskirts of Paris, the roads are blocked in a huge traffic jam. Paulette refuses to go back to the school; instead, her and the young women get out of the bus, singing, marching towards Paris to join the women's liberation revolution taking place there. Cast Juliette Binoche : Paulette Van der Beck Yolande Moreau : Gilberte Van der Beck Noémie Lvovsky : Marie-Thérèse Edouard Baer : André Grunvald François Berléand : Robert Van der Beck Marie Zabukovec : Annie Fuchs Anamaria Vartolomei : Albane Des-deux-Ponts Lily Taieb : Yvette Ziegler Pauline Briand : Corinne Schwartz Armelle : Christiane Rougemont Release How to Be a Good Wife opened in France on 11 March 2020. On its opening weekend in France, the film grossed a total of $1,329,409 making it the highest grossing film in France that weekend.