Jean-Pierre Marielle stars in this gentle comedy as a traveling salesman whose wife adamantly refuses to let him make paintings of her buttocks. At some point, fed up, he leaves his family and, after several tries, establishes himself as a painter. This is all thanks to the imperturbable kindness of his mistress and model (Dolores McDonough), who bakes cakes as diligently as her man paints pictures of her rump. ~ Clarke Fountain, Rovi