In the opening images we see a woman with a conspicuously cheerful plastic mask laid out. In the same room her husband (a Ken lookalike) and friends (all wearing similar plastic masks) are taking their leave of her. The dramatic opening music smoothly changes into a heavy house beat, which then again changes into typical romantic music as her husband approaches her. At that moment she grabs him and drags him along with her back in time to the period when they met, fell in love, married and were happy. Next, we move to the period when she lovingly waves him goodbye and spends the rest of the day enthusiastically playing housewife. She wears her most wonderful present and greatest pride: a red and white checkered apron with matching underclothes. Her fanatical scrubbing and polishing is an erotic experience and you, the viewer, can hardly suppress a laugh. The cheerful and self-satisfied smiles which never leave their plastic faces give no hint that the routine of daily life has, unnoticed by them, crept into their happy marriage. They experiment a little with sex. Pregnancy follows and she turns into such an ugly and fat lump that immediately after the birth of a stillborn baby she goes in for a facelift and extensive liposuction. Her husband takes on the role of, becomes, the baby. He sits in the baby bath, uses the potty, is fed with baby food and sleeps in the baby's cot. The wife pines after her role as the perfect housewife she felt so comfortable with in their plastic home, and ends this life of madness by killing herself. Accompanied by a mixture of catchy house and relaxing easy–tune music we watch this 'dramatic love story' of these 'plastic dolls' with their 'whatever happens we'll keep on smiling' faces unfold in front of us.
– Morene Dekker
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Light: Serge Meyer, Sound: Bertrand Larrieu, Music: Bertrand Larrieu, Gil Barnoui, Sylvio Cothenet, Thierry Moureau
Costumes and set decoration: Francis Barthélemy, Joao Correira, Lydie Morand. With: Lydie Morand, Joao Correira, Fabienne Rozand, Francis Barthélemy, and others, Production: Christian Vivier
Sandrine Vivier ° 1971, La Tronche (France)
Lives and works in Lyon (France)
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