Chouquette (2017)
Directed by Patrick Godeau

Film Synopsis

Since her wealthy husband Gepetto left her some years ago after a far from harmonious marriage, Chouquette has lived alone in her large house situated on a Breton island, her only companion being her ever-faithful pet seal.  Every year for the past three years, she has organised a surprise birthday party in Gepetto's honour, but to her disappointment he has always failed to show up, and neither have the other guests she went to the trouble of inviting.  This year, however, things are different.  Diane, her husband's former mistress, has turned up, accompanied by her mother Jacqueline.  Also in attendance is Chouquette's five-year-old grandson, who never seems to be lost for words.  It seems the garrulous little boy was recently expelled from a summer camp after catching chickenpox, having been dumped there so that his mother and her husband could go off and do some missionary work in Africa.  Chouquette has incurred the expense of building a cabin for her husband, so the prospect of him not turning up for the fourth year in a row is not one she is willing to entertain...