Claude Chatel, a popular writer, cultivates misanthropy. He imposes his brand image: a hermit living away from the world and noise. A cheeky journalist, Sylvia, takes it upon herself to publish an interview with this savage. She introduces herself as the secretary of Micheline, her best friend, whom she portrays as an unbearable socialite, attracts the good graces of the butler Henri and gradually wins the trust, then the friendship, then the love of Claude.
Featuring the same principals and the same director as "ma femme est formidable", "my husband is wonderful" is the follow-up ,but not a sequel :and for a good reason,vcause there's no husband ,at least till the very last scene which will infuriate the women's lib .
It's an imitation of the American comedies,with Fernand Gravey resembling Clark Gable ;hindsight displays the charms of this light harmless little movie : devoid of coarseness: it features cutting remarks about the snob Parisians ;the writer shuns the jet-set and goes back to his roots in his native Provence where, while writing disagreeable lines about women , he 's also a beekeeper; he draws a wry spicy parallel between the human society and the beehive where the insects never attack their mates .
