...And They Lived Happily Ever After

Name: ...And They Lived Happily Ever After
Genre: Drama, Comedy, Music
Released: April 8, 2005
Duration: 100 min
Rating: 58

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Kino International | Release Date: April 8, 2005 | Unrated

Summary: A look at three male friends and the women in their lives.

Director: Yvan Attal

Genre(s): Drama, Comedy, Music

Rating: Unrated

Runtime: 100 min

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Jami Bernard

Gives moviegoers a funny, observant, evanescent approach to the mysteries of human desire. Read full review

Allison Benedikt

With husband and wife starring, you can't help but wonder which details here are autobiographical. No matter: This is obviously a deeply personal work for Attal, whose comic timing and passion can only serve him well both on screen and off. Read full review

Ruthe Stein

A marital comedy as perceptive as it is delectable. Read full review

Steven Rea

Where My Wife was offbeat and original, Happily Ever After gets bogged down in midlife-crisis cliches. Read full review

TV Guide Magazine Maitland McDonagh

Attal's characters are one-note position statements, which forces the unsubtle soundtrack - mostly American pop songs that range from the Velvet Underground's "Sunday Morning" to Radiohead's "Creep" - to bear the brunt of clarifying their thoughts and feelings. Without it, you'd be entirely in the dark. Read full review

J.R. Jones

Gainsbourg has some cute scenes with Johnny Depp, a debonair stranger she meets in a Virgin Megastore, but otherwise this is a fairly banal installment in the battle of the sexes. Read full review

David Ng

This would-be comedy about a thirtysomething family man (Attal) and his foray into infidelity is probably the worst in the putrid bushel of recent Gallic imports. Read full review

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jdoc

May 12, 2006

Far more serious than its surface suggests. Great acting, esp. from Gainsbourg.

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Aug 22, 2005

As my own marraige flatlines, I found a challenge in this movie from characters who are willing - too willing, for the most part - to make literal and figurative messes in their lives. Passion can seem to be at odds with compassion, as in the married adulterer who is hurting two women at As my own marraige flatlines, I found a challenge in this movie from characters who are willing - too willing, for the most part - to make literal and figurative messes in their lives. Passion can seem to be at odds with compassion, as in the married adulterer who is hurting two women at the same time, but the movie may be saying that they can only co-exist - without both, you end up with indifference. The sexy elevator rides that begin and end the movie clearly symbolize our erotic conundrums - the ride to the heights is always followed by the return trip down to the doldrums. Choose - a marriage of boring mutual tolerance and total acceptance versus the more challenging marital mess of the couples in this film.… Expand

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