The Little Wheedlers

The Little Wheedlers (or Les petits câlins) is a French comedy film directed by Jean-Marie Poiré.

Plot
The story of three Parisian friends who live in the same dwelling. The first (Sylvie) is Salesmen clothing market, the second (Corinne) works in a university restaurant and the third (Sophie) is unemployed. The latter moves large displacement motorcycle.

Cast

 * Josiane Balasko as Corinne
 * Dominique Laffin as Sophie
 * Caroline Cartier as Sylvie
 * Roger Miremont as Antoine
 * Jacques Frantz as Marc
 * Patrick Cartié as Jean-Pierre
 * Claire Maurier as Sophie's mother
 * Jean Bouise as Sophie's father
 * Françoise Bertin as Antoine's mother
 * Jacques Maury as Margeron
 * Marc Eyraud as The bookseller
 * Marie Déa as The paper
 * Gérard Jugnot

Themes
The film depicts the emancipation of women at the end of the 1970s. The radio advertisement during the theatrical release proclaimed: "Now it's the girls who flirt". As Thomas Morales notes, The Little Wheedlers captures "this shift where the strong woman takes power in relationships of seduction but above all where she questions the meaning of her life in a consumerist society".