Pretty much every wife of a French president over the last 20 years deserves a saucy biopic: before Brigitte Macron, who met Emmanuel when he was her high-school student, there was Carla Bruni, the smoldering model turned chanteuse who married Nicolas Sarkozy. (There is no room here to describe the many mistresses of François Hollande.) But Bernadette Chirac—the well-bred and self-effacing wife of Jacques Chirac, who was president from 1995 to 2007—was boringly comme il faut: good deeds and Chanel suits, with a blind eye to the husband’s infidelities. The President’s Wife, which stars Catherine Deneuve as Bernadette, reimagines her marriage as a First Ladies’ Club romp. Ignored and disrespected, Bernadette decides to steal her husband’s limelight, helped by a makeover by Karl Lagerfeld. The President’s Wife openly admits that the storyline has only a loose connection to facts, but it’s a sly comedy with more than a grain of truth about French mores, politics, and marriage. —Alessandra Stanley