It's a breezy ride with pleasant little stops along the way.
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08/02/02
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My Wife is an Actress (2002)
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Reviews Counted:72
Fresh:47
Rotten:25
Average Rating:6.2/10
Consensus: My Wife is an Actress is a delightful, snappy romantic comedy.
Theatrical Release:Jul 12, 2002 Limited
Box Office: $738,414
Synopsis: MY WIFE IS AN ACTRESS is a clever French comedy from Yvan Attal, who directs, produces, and stars in the film. Jealous and paranoid, Yvan (Attal) is the husband of Charlotte (Charlotte Gainsbourg),... [More]
Starring: Charlotte Gainsbourg, Yvan Attal, Terence Stamp, Noemie Lvovsky
Director: Yvan Attal
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Reviews for My Wife is an Actress
If the movie were all comedy, it might work better. But it has an ambition to say something about its subjects, but not a willingness.
08/02/02
Top CriticNice balance between real emotions and cute movie moments with a hilarious love scene.
08/02/02
Yvan may be a self-deprecating paranoiac in the Woody Allen tradition, but Mr. Attal's script does a fine job of making his character's concerns farcically real.
08/01/02
Top CriticA romantic comedy for anyone in love with the movies, and anyone, for that matter, who's in love.
08/01/02
Everything that has to do with Yvan and Charlotte, and everything that has to do with Yvan's rambunctious, Jewish sister and her non-Jew husband, feels funny and true.
08/01/02
My Wife offers the best and the worst of both Allen's ego-and- neuroses-based humor and Truffaut's romanticism about love and movies.
08/01/02
Top CriticMy Wife is an Actress is obviously influenced by Woody Allen's movies about the film business -- and it has the raw energy that's been missing from some of Allen's later work.
07/31/02
Top CriticApparently writer-director Attal thought he need only cast himself and his movie-star wife sitting around in their drawers to justify a film.
07/27/02
Neither quite a comedy nor a romance, more of an impish divertissement of themes that interest Attal and Gainsbourg -- they live together -- the film has a lot of charm.
07/26/02
Overall it's a promising debut, and a love letter to the droopily beautiful Gainsbourg.
07/26/02
The film title My Wife Is an Actress should be extended to finish with . . . and I'm a Major Annoyance.
07/26/02
Top CriticNot so much farcical as sour.
07/26/02
Any movie that sticks with you as long as this one did deserves a little extra credit
07/26/02
Just squeaks by as a contemporary romantic comedy.
07/25/02
For the most part, My Wife Is an Actress is bright, pleasant and intelligent entertainment with no undue alarums or excursions.
07/25/02
Top Critica bilingual charmer, just like the woman who inspired it
07/20/02
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07/20/02
Not too fancy, not too filling, not too fluffy, but definitely tasty and sweet.
07/19/02
Attal mixes comedy with a serious exploration of ego and jealousy within a seemingly serene marriage.
07/19/02
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