While driving to some fancy dinner or gala event one evening, Paris couple Paul (Vincent Lindon) and Helene (Catherine Frot)
see a frantic woman running toward them, fleeing a trio of Three Stooge-looking roughians. Paul locks the doors. After the girl's face is beaten against their windshield, he reacts by driving to a car wash. This is not the first time Helene has been dissatisfied with her husband's behavior, we suspect, but it might wind up being the last straw. This is "Chaos," a movie from writer/director Coline Serreau ("3 hommes et un couffin," the film on which "Three Men and a Baby" was based) that is not the slightest bit chaotic, really, but that is energetic, darkly funny and engaging from beginning to end. The morning after the beating, we see Helene's life. Paul, an ultra-busy, joyless business executive, hides from his aged mother (Line Renaud), to whom Helene must make excuses. Helene's own son, Fabrice (Aurelien Wiik), pulls the same kind of stunt with her when she visits his college apartment. She has no one, and now she wonders about that poor woman she saw beaten up.
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