L'Événement Le Plus Important Depuis Que L'homme A Marché Sur La Lune (aka A Slightly Pregnant Man) (1973)

After feeling a bit run down, a driving instructor (Marcello Mastroianni) visits a doctor (Micheline Presle) who makes the absurd discovery that he is not ill but actually four months pregnant! He sparks an international media frenzy which is embraced by his girlfriend (Catherine Deneuve) as he has become an instant if notorious celebrity that pays off financially for them. Written and directed by Jacques Demy (YOUNG GIRLS OF ROCHEFORT). A major misfire by cinema's master of visual style. This is one ugly looking movie. Its look wouldn't have been so problematic if the film were any good but its one joke premise expires very quickly. And it wastes two of cinema's most charismatic stars, Mastroianni and Deneuve. It's almost as if Demy deliberately attempted to sabotage their appeal. An all around low point in the careers of those involved. In 1994, Ivan Reitman would take the same premise, this time with Arnold Schwarzenegger as the pregnant man in JUNIOR. While more entertaining than this vehicle, it pretty much put the nail in the coffin of pregnant man movies. With Marisa Pavan, Mireille Mathieu and Claude Melki.