Le Divorce (2003)
Average Rating: 5.2/10
Reviews Counted: 136
Fresh: 49 | Rotten: 87
A mixed bag of uneven tones that feels flat.
Average Rating: 5.7/10
Critic Reviews: 39
Fresh: 17 | Rotten: 22
A mixed bag of uneven tones that feels flat.
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Based on the 1997 National Book Award-nominated novel of the same name by Diane Johnson (co-writer of the script for Stanley Kubrick's The Shining), Le Divorce is a romantic comedy from director James Ivory. Revisiting the "Americans in France" theme that Ivory explored in 1998's A Soldier's Daughter Never Cries, the film stars Kate Hudson as Isabel Walker. When she receives word that her pregnant poetess sister Roxy (Naomi Watts) has been left by her philandering French husband, artist
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Cast
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Kate Hudson
Isabel Walker -
Naomi Watts
Roxeanne de Persand -
Jean-Marc Barr
Maitre Bertram -
Leslie Caron
Suizanne de Persand -
Stockard Channing
Margreeve Walker -
Glenn Close
Olivia Pace -
Romain Duris
Yves -
Stephen Fry
Piers Janely -
Samuel Labarthe
Antoine de Persand -
Thomas Lennon
Roger Walker -
Thierry Lhermitte
Edgar Cosset -
Daniel Mesguich
Louvre Expert -
Matthew Modine
Tellman -
Bebe Neuwirth
Julia Manchevering -
Melvil Poupaud
Charles-Henri de Persan... -
Nathalie Richard
Charlotte de Persand -
Catherine Samie
Madame Florian -
Sam Waterston
Chester Walker -
Rona Hartner
Magda -
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All Critics (148) | Top Critics (41) | Fresh (49) | Rotten (89) | DVD (23)
Quite le drag.
Top CriticThis 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.
It is a well-dressed film filled with thought and sly observations.
It pokes along like a Renault on an interstate, lacking drama or momentum.
It's all perfectly pleasant, but the movie lacks an urgent dramatic pulse, or a clear sense of whose story it's supposed to be, or even, from scene to scene, whether it's meant to be a comedy, drama or thriller.
The film's most successful performances come from those actors who have a subtle but firm grip on their otherwise skimpy characters -- Lhermitte and Caron, in particular.
Not a frothy romantic comedy.
The movie is least successful when it tips from semi-serious to too-serious.
No extras are included on the DVD.
Its annoying need to be witty, profound, funny, and charming at all times makes what could have been a smart comedy a tiresome exercise in pleasing its audience.
At the end when we should be thinking about love and lessons of maturity, we are left with Isabel shrugging off her latest mistake and charging headlong into who-knows-what.
Le Divorce is tres mediocre.
It's difficult to find a character to connect with.
I saw this AFTER I watched Gigli, and it's STILL the worst film I've seen in the last twelve months.
The only question the movie poses is how so many fine actors could have been conned into appearing in a story where they have so little to do.
...the ending does nothing to dispel the feeling that one has just wasted 117 minutes of one's life on empty gestures.
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