I could only watch part of it in French. It definitely was part of the french poetic realism trend to pick topics close to home, examine society, examine marriage, domestic issues, and put up a magnifying glass to those issues. But you also really see French humour and exaggeration that will characterize french love films for generations, it’s the same humour that makes boudu and l’atlante such humanist films whereby the dunce or the buffoon is accepted as he is and accepts his own diminished social stature.
This film really plays up the “community” as a character, something that Fellini and Altman and other filmmakers later on will toy with generally you don’t see the “community” as a character in these films.