What If...?

Fun contemporary French Comedy with subtitles you can actually read!
First off, I want to let you know that, when I went to post my review of this French language comedy, the first title that came up was a COMPLETELY different American film with the exact same title! When I saw mention of a "faith-based" movie I knew I was in the wrong place. I found it - and posting here - but just want to alert others. (The other film even has the same THREE dots between "If" and "?".)

Now to the DVD - I see my fellow Amazon reviewer Charles Ashbacher as provided lots of details about the plot and characters of this 2008 French comedy.. I won't repeat those and may even suggest that the less you know the better. What you do need to know going in (or you will be thoroughly confused IMHO) is that Director Lea Fazar is playing with both "options" and "time". Every story can have two different outcomes depending on which "path" the screenwriter takes. In this short 84-minute film, we see both paths. As events happen we are shown what would happen "if" a man...
Great movie about choices, the paths they create and where they might lead
The premise of this movie is one that many professional couples face in one form or another. Victor and Margot are two upwardly mobile lawyers in the same firm and they are a loving couple. When a senior partner unexpectedly dies, it is made clear that one of the two of them will be promoted to take his place. Rather than the selection being made and then that thread being followed, in this case both are simultaneously pursued.
In one track, Margot is promoted to the senior partner position while Victor is de facto relegated to a secondary role in the firm and in their relationship. Margot is now forced to dress far more powerfully, adopt a more aggressive personality and work long hours on the more valued cases while Victor works on more minor cases, gets home earlier and spends his time waiting for Margot to arrive.
In the other track, Victor is promoted while Margot is relegated and the roles are essentially reversed with the tracks alternating. In both paths the...

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