What age is My Wife's Husband (La Cuisine au beurre) appropriate for?

7 alone, 6 with a parent; 7 in France. The whole movie, watched in full: what's in it, and how to talk about it with your child.

Why is My Wife's Husband (La Cuisine au beurre) not recommended under 7?

What's in it: our reading; a husband believed dead comes home; the rest. The detail, fact by fact, is in the zinema guide, which reads the work itself (images, sound, dialogue).

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My Wife's Husband (La Cuisine au beurre): what age is it for? 7 alone, 6 with a parent

7 alone, 6 with a parent.

Movie · 1963 · 1 h 22 · comedy

YRS

The trailer

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not yetwith an adult, or to talk about afteralone

Alone from 7; from 6, with an adult or by talking about it afterwards.

In France, zinema would say 7.

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What it's about

After thirteen years in Germany, Fernand is coming back to his wife and his restaurant. But since his disparition, his wife as made her life with a norman chef, sympathetic but a specialist of butter's cooking when Fernand cook only with oil!

Why 7

Our readingFernandel and Bourvil, a vaudeville brawl and wine, in 1963: seven, six with an adult.
reading
A husband believed dead comes homeA prisoner of war returns fourteen years later, his wife has remarried, and the two husbands fight over the house: death and war are talked about without anything shown, and the fights are vaudeville fights.
The restPlenty of wine, a few cigarettes; 1963.

What the movie brings

Fernandel and Bourvil face to face, just once: the film French grandparents quote.
A domestic comedy where nobody is mean.
Butter cooking against oil cooking: northern and southern France in one argument.

Watching it together

Before

Nothing to prepare; explain that a prisoner of war could be believed dead, the only word children lack.

After

at 7 and up

Both husbands want the same house: which one should leave, and why?

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A zinema reading from September 19, 2026 · the whole movie, watched in full · the age by zinema's rules for the US and France, and a human reading · report an error · how this guide is made