IRIS AND THE MEN

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Storyline (warning: spoilers)

After the smash-hit international success of Antoinette in the Cévennes, writer/director Caroline Vignal and Laure Calamy reunite for a comedy about reignited desire in the modern age.
“They’re not”. This is how Iris (Calamy) answers her doctor when she is asked how things are going with her husband (Vincent Elbaz). The words slip from her mouth like a brutal realisation: how long has it been since they last made love? Yet everything else is great: her partner loves her, they have two happy daughters, she runs a successful medical practice, lives in a beautiful apartment and has the best friends one could hope for.
A mother at parent-teacher night overhears Iris complaining on the phone about the lack of sex and quietly suggests she take on a lover. So ‘pourqoi pas?’, Iris begins to delve into the world of dating apps for married people and after an awkward start, embraces this advice with gusto – hence the film’s title Iris and the Men – and starts living life to the full, experiencing the joys of sex with different partners. Aaaah, the ‘freedom’ of it all. Albeit clandestinely.
Iris sets herself a couple of rules – no meeting in cafes and she will only bed a man once. And of course, she will never leave her husband, as she still loves him. She soon gets the hang of it and goes through a series of men and a sexual re-awakening of sorts.
And so we’re taken along for the ride as Iris, known online as Isis, meets men: older, younger, desperate, confident, mostly considerate and never dangerous. She’s not after friendship, certainly not a relationship, just sex and somewhere in the middle of all this we get a breakout musical number - It’s Raining Men with adjusted lyrics sung in a suburban square.