Dry Cleaning

This French-Spanish drama depicts a flat marriage that picks up a few new wrinkles. Nicole (Miou-Miou) and Jean-Marie Kunstler (Charles Berling) have run their small-town dry-cleaning shop for 15 years. When they visit a local night club, they see the brother-sister act of Loic (Stanislas Merhar) ...more

Billows of hot steam come out of more than the presses in Miou-Miou's little dry cleaning shop in this romantic potboiler. Allegory abounds as Nicole (Miou-Miou) and her husband Jean-Marie (Charles Berling) try to "iron" the ennui out their flagging relationship by taking in the dangerously sexual Loic (Stanislas Merhar), an unfeeling sexual predator who seduces both parties (there is an explicit bisexual coupling near the end that might not have made it past the American ratings board intact). ...more