"Potiche" (R, 103 minutes). A whimsical comedy, based on a Parisian stage success, with Catherine Deneuve as the placid wife of a mean-tempered factory boss, and Gerard Depardieu as the local Communist mayor. When the workers take the husband as hostage, it's up to the wife and the mayor to reconcile the situation, and in the process they revive some of their own old memories.