Actor-director Daniel Auteuil (‘Cache’) brings Florian Zeller’s play to the screen in a comedy that co-stars Gerard Depardieu, Sandrine Kiberlain and Adriana Ugarte.

The actor, who plays the lead alongside Sandrine Kiberlain, Adriana Ugarte and, of course, Gerard Depardieu, has a hard time wringing a single laugh from this story of a married man lusting after his best buddy’s beautiful and significantly younger girlfriend during an extended dinner party. Mixing dreams, reality and lecherous fantasies.

With Amoureux de ma femme, Daniel Auteuil comes out of the work of Pagnol to adapt to the cinema a play. He took the opportunity to reunite with Depardieu to create a film that takes us between fantasy and reality.

The entirety of the story hinges on the idea that Daniel (Auteuil), an aging Parisian book editor who seems to be happily married to the high school teacher Isabelle (Kiberlain), cannot handle the fact that his friend Patrick (Depardieu) left his wife for a young Spanish bombshell named Emma (Ugarte). When the new couple comes by for supper, Daniel is so smitten by the girl that he makes a fool of himself in every scene, or else imagines the erotic adventures that he and Emma could have together.

Daniel (Auteuil) invites his long-standing friend Patrick (Depardieu) to dinner so he and his wife (Kiberlain) can meet Patrick’s new girlfriend.  From the moment he sets eyes on the gorgeous Emma (Adriana Ugarte), Daniel indulges in a series of fantasies which involve the Spanish beauty,  forty years his junior, falling passionately and improbably in love with him – a fantasy he barely conceals during the dinner from his wife and friend.