This is an affair to forget.
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09/09/05
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Happily Ever After (2005)
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Reviews Counted:40
Fresh:23
Rotten:17
Average Rating:6/10
Consensus: Though this French film features good acting, it lacks the wit and charm one would expect to see.
Runtime: 1 hr 45 mins
Genre: Foreign Films
Box Office: $121,785
Synopsis: Yvan Attal writes, directs, and stars in this meditation on extra-marital affairs. When he and his wife (Charlotte Gainsbourg) find they are both attracted to other people, even though they are... [More]
Starring: Yvan Attal, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Alain Chabat, Emmanuelle Seigner
Director: Yvan Attal
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Reviews for Happily Ever After
Attal knows that no matter how adult we feel when we say, 'I do,' marriage is all child's play: jealousy, lies and pure, unconditional love. Perplexing, but not a bad option.
07/28/05
Top CriticThis is terrific filmmaking.
04/08/05
Top CriticAttal is creative in crafting cinematic mood, using focus and camera movements to subtly but deftly enhance and even anticipate emotions.
06/17/05
The main reason to see it is to witness a fine lady making the most of what she's been given to play.
05/06/05
A delightful French film about the different shades of love and lust as experienced by a married couple and the husband's two best friends.
04/08/05
A tremendously provocative date movie for couples brave enough to face each other afterward.
06/10/05
Top CriticIn a world filled with empty lust and marital discord, Yvan Attal’s wistful comedy is about a guy who loves his wife.
07/29/05
Like the story, the camerawork in Happily Ever After is loose, fluid and intent on discovery; it lets characters' moments together and alone unfurl easily and casually in a way that Hollywood seems to want to avoid like failure.
05/05/05
Top CriticThere are a few quality moments, but this fairy tale is far from enchanting.
08/26/05
There's nothing much wrong with the film; my complaint is that there's nothing much right about it.
07/28/05
Top CriticThis is a fetching piece of work, both comical and savvy, and Gainsborough's brisk, forward intelligence rescues Gabrielle from snags of marital self-pity.
06/17/05
Happily Ever After is never as insightful or as funny as Woody at his best. But the film has a fine-tuned approach to human behavior.
06/30/05
Top CriticThis look at the assorted struggles of modern hetero coupledom gives off a distinctly moldy aroma.
05/05/05
The story in the French Happily Ever After is about as exciting as that bland, mistranslated title. But the filmmaking? Very exciting.
07/14/05
Anyone who watches Yvan Attal's breezy, skin-deep sex comedy can identify with the grass-is-always-greener daydreams that haunt its characters.
04/07/05
Top CriticA meditation on the joys and frustrations of monogamy that manages to be a diverting and funny character study at least most of the time.
06/17/05
Top CriticA frothy, amusing Parisian romantic comedy.
04/13/05
Attal taps into that unexpectedness -- the inability of just one person to captain the course of a relationship no matter how hard they try -- and he plays it for all it's worth.
09/08/05
...But, for the most part, Attal’s psychological insights and his skill with actors...draw us into the characters’ lives, in ways that are never less than sympathetic.
05/08/05
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