Le divorce

Name: Le divorce
Genre: Drama, Comedy, Romance
Released: August 8, 2003
Duration: 117 min
Rating: 51
Cast: Kate Hudson, Naomi Watts

2003

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Fox Searchlight Pictures | Release Date: August 8, 2003 | PG-13

Starring: Kate Hudson, Naomi Watts

Summary: In this modern-day comedy of manners, American sisters Isabel (Hudson) and Roxy (Watts) come face to face with the complicated social mores of French society. Cultures clash and scandals ensue as the sisters learn what it really takes to be an American in Paris. (Fox Searchlight Pictures)

Director: James Ivory

Genre(s): Drama, Comedy, Romance

Rating: PG-13

Runtime: 117 min

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Desson Thomson

A relaxed delight, a series of delicately tongue-in-cheek musings about the clash between American and French cultures. Read full review

Edward Guthmann

Captures the effervescence and playfulness of Johnson's novel, even as it attempts to shoehorn a tangle of characters and situations. Read full review

Jonathan Rosenbaum

As in other Ivory-Jhabvala adaptations, ritzy consumerism is very much on display, but what makes this better than most is Johnson's amused admiration for nearly all her characters, regardless of nationality. Read full review

Connie Ogle

This is an insignificant film with a passably entertaining premise that goes wildly to hell the instant it strays from its comic ideals with brief, unsatisfying detours into the realms of art and high-end lingerie. Read full review

Kim Morgan

Scattered and silly. If it evokes any strong feelings from you, it will probably be hunger -- the food all looks so good. Read full review

Mark Caro

Somehow lacks lightness and weight. This is a movie that tries to work a bloody suicide attempt and a murder into a comedy of manners, with almost everything registering in the same narrow spectrum of inconsequence. Read full review

Joe Morgenstern

A generally mirthless comedy of manners.

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NickS.

Aug 4, 2003

Usually when I watch a film based on a bestseller that I haven't read, I run out to buy the book. Seabiscuit is a good example. I understand how tough it is to adapt a book but this film made it look impossible. The film couldn't decide what it was about. I went in thinking that Usually when I watch a film based on a bestseller that I haven't read, I run out to buy the book. Seabiscuit is a good example. I understand how tough it is to adapt a book but this film made it look impossible. The film couldn't decide what it was about. I went in thinking that it was a romantic comedy but there was hardly any romance and no comedy!! I could count how many times I laughed on one hand. Throw in an attempted suicide, some murders, and depressed women and call that a comedy?!?! I don't think so. Matthew Modine was the only funny character in the film but I'm pretty sure that he wasn't supposed to be. Kate Hudson plays the same character she always does and Naomi Watts was just plain ordinary. I did enjoy the portrayal of the American family, especially when they were in Paris. Overall, I wasn't impressed with this film at all and thought it wasted a lot of talent and a gorgeous location with a mediocre script that couldn't decide what it wanted to be. Merchant-Ivory should go back to period films because they have no idea how to make something else. But if you're fan of the book, it supposedly stays relatively true to it and other fans in the audience enjoyed the film. If you're not a fan of the book, go see Bad Boys II.… Expand

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joe

Aug 30, 2009

Horrifying little movie by someone who is probably the sort of person who still calls french fries "freedom fries." For all the eye candy on the screen, everyone manages to come off extremely ugly. Avoid.

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RobC

Nov 9, 2007

So loaded with feminist propaganda that every development left me in no suspense as to its purpose and outcome. Reminiscent of old Soviet movies. Excruciating.

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SquishyFrFries

Aug 6, 2021

Surface performances, a flat story, disconnected editing, a bevy of continuity errors - it's such a bloated mess it doesn't even know what it is .

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