My Wife Is an Actress Reviews

This French marriage comedy is a not-so -entertaining offering from real-life married couple actor-director Yvan Attal and actress Charlotte Gainsbourg, daughter of French crooner Serge Gainsbourg.

| Original Score: 1/4

My Wife Is an Actress works as well as it does because [the leads] are such a companionable couple.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4

U.S. audiences may find [Attal and Gainsbourg's] unfamiliar personas give the film an intimate and quaint reality that is a little closer to human nature than what Hollywood typically concocts.

| Original Score: 3/4

Attal sets us up to expect some kind of inside look at the predicament posed by the title and premise of his movie. On that basis, My Wife Is an Actress, blandly pleasant as it is, is a bit of a cheat.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5

It's a breezy ride with pleasant little stops along the way.

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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.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4

Nice balance between real emotions and cute movie moments with a hilarious love scene.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/5

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.

Full Review | Original Score: B+

A romantic comedy for anyone in love with the movies, and anyone, for that matter, who's in love.

| Original Score: 3.5/4

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.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4

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.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4

My 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.

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Apparently writer-director Attal thought he need only cast himself and his movie-star wife sitting around in their drawers to justify a film.

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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.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4

Overall it's a promising debut, and a love letter to the droopily beautiful Gainsbourg.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4

The film title My Wife Is an Actress should be extended to finish with . . . and I'm a Major Annoyance.

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/4

Not so much farcical as sour.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/4

Any movie that sticks with you as long as this one did deserves a little extra credit

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4

Just squeaks by as a contemporary romantic comedy.

Full Review | Original Score: B-

For the most part, My Wife Is an Actress is bright, pleasant and intelligent entertainment with no undue alarums or excursions.