Happy Anniversary

11/30/2025

With his wife (Laurence Lignières) having prepared an anniversary luncheon at home, husband (Pierre Étaix) is out in Paris hoping to get her some nice gifts before returning for dejeuner. What he hasn’t quite factored in, though, is that the old cobbled streets of the city centre are jam packed with other motorists vying for that last parking space or just generally sitting in endless queues of traffic edging forward inch by inch. As she becomes peckish at home and begins to nibble, he makes little progress. Soon, well Mme. has tucked into the vin rouge and he is racing home after having been through half a dozen adventures and more than the one car before he finally arrives bearing a particularly bedraggled sunflower. This is one of these “if it can go wrong it will” style comedies but it