The Probability Factor

Directed by Gérard Pirès

With Jean-Louis Trintignant, Mireille Darc, Bernadette Lafont, Lea Massari and Claude Piéplu

Fred works for an insurance company as a computer engineer. He is bored with enduring the trials of his shrewish wife, so, after using actuarial tables to calculate the most common means of death, he cleverly prepares the family bathroom and brings about her demise. For a while he is content with his new freedom, but then he recognizes that a friend is in a similar situation.