I Am Not an Easy Man
2018
•
1h 38min
• Comedy, Fantasy
Parisian Damien (Vincent Elbaz) is the consummate chauvinist-womanizer when I AM NOT AN EASY MAN OPENS. Good-looking, a savvy business man, he's just arrogant enough to be obnoxious. Sadly for him, a forceful bump on the head results in his waking up in a world in which gender roles have been reversed to the max. Woman rule all; men submit. Women flirt; men endure. Before he realizes the extent of the change in this new world, Damien is fired from his job, antagonizes his best friend's cheeky wife, and strikes out with his newest sexual conquest. The emotional and physical assaults keep coming. His parents are no help; his dad is very disappointed that he hasn't yet delivered the grandchildren the older man so desperately wants. Alexandra (Marie-Sophie Ferdane), his new boss, a popular novelist with writer's block, is demanding, sexually aggressive, and makes what might have been a decent workplace untenable. But Damien isn't about to accept this new status quo. Instead, he aligns himself with a group of "masculinists," men who are trying to speak truth to the powerful women that torment them and rule their lives. But those masculinists are an ineffectual lot. It's only when he and Alexandra begin a sexual relationship that Damien becomes aware of just how terrifying his future may be.
