Description
Kate Hudson (Almost Famous) lights up the screen as Isabel, a film school dropout who jets off to Paris when her pregant step-sister Roxy (Naomi Watts, Mulholland Drive) is abandoned by her husband. Soon, Isabel has a scandal of her own when she falls for an older man who’s related to Roxy’s cheating husband! Ths stylish romantic comedy by the acclaimed Merchant Ivory team (The Remains of the Day) features a top cast, including Stockard Channing, Glenn Close, Matthew Modine… More >>
I thought this movie was well acted and kept my attention!
Rating: 5 / 5
J’ai A do re ce film. Original dans l’ensemble. Qui fait rever. J’ai aime aussi la bande sonore avec Carla Bruni.
Rating: 5 / 5
“I’m helpless, Isabel. I know I am absolutely in the wrong but there’s nothing I can do about it. Roxy should understand that, she’s a poet. Another artist with so much imagination. I know this sounds romantic in the wrong sort of way… [but] it’s inevitable. I met the woman of my life and I want to be only with her. I’m painting better than I’ve ever done in my life… I feel like for the first time I’ve arrived at certainty.”
Reasoned painter Charles-Henri de Persand (Melvil Poupaud) while found out by the visiting sister-in-law Isabel (Kate Hudson), which is amusing since both are equally not well disciplined in addressing a relationship but that, is awesome to say anyway. Honest, romantic, and spontaneous as the way Charles-Henri’s quote should, LE DIVORCE sounds and looks better than any other contemporary comedy.
Realising her broken marriage could get as worst as losing a precious family heritage [the painting La Tour], and not getting any helpful support from young Isabel who is deeply fascinated by the diplomat uncle-in-law Edgar Cosset (Thierry Lhermitte), the pregnant and emotionally devastated Roxanna (Naomi Watts) finally looked up to her parents in America for help. The entire Walker family arrive in the springtime Paris. Together with a little help from Roxy’s devoting lawyer Maitre Bertram (Jean-Marc Barr) they must protect their daughters from the Persands who relentlessly spoiled the son, and claim their ownership as surely as the £4 million value of La Tour amidst LE DIVORCE. Not a surprising happy ending.
I particularly like the screen writer’s link of uncle Cosset with the residing American publisher Olivia Pace (Glenn Close) decades before his current affair with Isabel. Even a forever Hérmes Kelly [handbag] could never team up with a lightest, finest strip of silk scarf.
Introducing Rona Hartner, who plays Magda the strikingly sexy Russian brunnette who left her American husband for Charles-Henri.
Rating: 4 / 5
My fiance and I rented this because it claimed to be a comedy- and that’s the biggest lie I’ve seen yet. It’s not funny, it’s not romantic, it’s not dramatic, it’s poorly acted, and the story line just stinks. Hopefully, if you’re really looking for a good romantic comedy, you’ll just keep on looking!
Rating: 1 / 5
Take in the recent ’21 Grams’ and you’ll realize that the very talented Naomi Watts isn’t really being challenged at all here in Merchant-Ivory’s “Le Divorce.” And, as for Kate Hudson as Watts’ half-sister, the best we can say is, yes, she does appear in the film.
The production team also manages to completely underuse the potentially dynamic duo of Stockard Channing and Sam Waterson. These are two of their generation’s finest talents, yet here they pop up in two-dimensional parents’ roles. If replaced, no one would miss them. Same goes for Glenn Close. Imagine, these three stars together in a film and no one barely noticed. A shame.
Other than Watts, the only two things worth noting:
a) Thierry Lhermitte’s excellent take as Watts’ ‘uncle’ (in-law) Edgar Cosset (he looks and sounds great here, especially for those who haven’t seen a lot of his previous work – *this* is a movie star).
b) Matthew Modine – apparently no one got the word out to him that you weren’t supposed to do serious acting in this film. He turns in a performance, and looks seriously out of place as a result.
Rating: 3 / 5