Rating: PG13
Genre:
Comedy
Theatrical Release: 08/08/2003(USA
Release Date: 01/27/2004
SubTitles: English/Espanol/French
Dubbed: English/Espanol/French
Sound: DD5.1/DDS
Run Time: 117 Minutes
Flags: Adult Situations, Adult Language
Distributor/Studio: 20th Century Fox
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
Charles-Henri de Persand (
Melvil Poupaud),
Isabel offers her help and moral support. As the depressive Roxy struggles with the separation proceedings -- which include the rights to ownership of a work of art that's a family heirloom -- Isabel takes a job with author
Olivia Pace and has a fling with the bohemian Yves (
Romain Duris). But things get complicated when the younger, more impudent sister decides instead to pursue Charles' uncle, the snooty, married diplomat Edgar (
Thierry Lhermitte), and when a mysterious man (
Matthew Modine) starts stalking Roxy. Eventually, the rest of the plucky Walker clan has to come to the aid of the siblings.
Stockard Channing and
Sam Waterston co-star.
~ Matthew Tobey, All Movie Guide
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A reviewer
from Fort Lauderdale, Florida
An Adult Comedy of Infedility.
Paris, France is the setting for director James Ivory's stylish romantic comedy based on Diane Johnson's best-seller. Kate Hudson and Naomi Watts are the main characters in this picture. Kate is an American film school dropout, who travels to Paris after learning her pregnant stepsister (Watts) is abandoned by her cheating husband, and she, in turn, begins a scandalous affair with her sister's husband's uncle. Talk about infedility. C'est L'Agaire. Also starring Leslie Caron, Stockard Channing, Glenn Close, Thomas Lennon, Matthew Modine, Bebe Neuwirth, Sam Waterston, Catherine Samie, Thierry Lhermitte, Jean-Marc Barr, Nathalie Richard, Melvil Poupaud, Stephen Fry, and Romain Duris.
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