Le Divorce

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Release Date:Rating:

August 8th, 2003

Genres:

Comedy, Family, Drama

Subgenres:

Based on Book/Play, Foreign Film, Historical, Hostage, Romance

Plot Synopsis:

Isabel Walker (Hudson), a film school dropout from California travels to Paris to help her 8-month pregnant poet stepsister, Roxeanne (Watts), arriving just in time to see Roxy abandoned by her...

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Directed: James Ivory Written: NA
Starring: Kate Hudson, Jean-Marie Lhomme, Naomi Watts, Esmee Buchet-Deak, Jean-Jacques Pivert

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[+] Washington Post

80

A relaxed delight, a series of delicately tongue-in-cheek musings about the clash between American and French cultures.
by Desson Thomson | Read Full Review »
[+] Philadelphia Inquirer

75

In this episodic film with a soupcon of "Sex and the City" (just as the Merchant Ivory Slaves of New York presaged the HBO hit), cross-cultural misunderstanding, not character, is the point.
by Carrie Rickey | Read Full Review »
[+] Premiere

75

The actors and acting are so attractive--as is, per usual in a Merchant Ivory production, the scenery--that the movie’s less deft handling of the scenario’s various themes, not to mention some stumbling in the final quarter, when the story’s tone grows a little darker, doesn’t stand out as much as it might have.
by Glenn Kenny | Read Full Review »
[+] Boston Globe

75

This present-day Paris of Le Divorce is smartly shot and costumed, and the whole affair is breezy and uncharacteristically insouciant, given the reserved nature of the folks responsible for it.
by Wesley Morris | Read Full Review »
[+] Rolling Stone

75

Acted with relish by a note-perfect cast -- a romantic comedy of true sophistication. There's a sting in every laugh.
by Peter Travers | Read Full Review »
[+] Chicago Sun-Times

75

While there are too many characters in too much story for the movie to really involve us, it's amusing as a series of sketches about how the French think they are a funny race (or the Americans, take your choice).
by Roger Ebert | Read Full Review »
[+] Christian Science Monitor

75

No masterpiece, but that shouldn't dissuade moviegoers from giving it a whirl as a flavorful alternative to the summer's more gimmicky fare.
by David Sterritt | Read Full Review »
[+] San Francisco Chronicle

75

Captures the effervescence and playfulness of Johnson's novel, even as it attempts to shoehorn a tangle of characters and situations.
by Edward Guthmann | Read Full Review »
[+] The Hollywood Reporter

70

Utterly charming and not without those subtle insights into character and culture that mark their (Merchant Ivory) best films.
by Kirk Honeycutt | Read Full Review »
[+] Chicago Reader

70

As in other Ivory-Jhabvala adaptations, ritzy consumerism is very much on display, but what makes this better than most is Johnson's amused admiration for nearly all her characters, regardless of nationality.
by Jonathan Rosenbaum | Read Full Review »
[+] The Onion (A.V. Club)

70

One minor element in Le Divorce, the sale of a disputed and possibly valuable painting that once belonged to Watts' family, welcomes scene-stealing bits by Bebe Neuwirth and Stephen Fry as appraisers with clashing motives.
by Scott Tobias | Read Full Review »
[+] Seattle Post-Intelligencer

67

An almost too-sophisticated comedy, pitting the New World mentality and brash pugnaciousness of America against the staid arrogance of custom that defines the French bourgeoisie.
by Paula Nechak | Read Full Review »
[+] USA Today

63

A tasty bonbon, initially appealing but not terribly satisfying.
by Claudia Puig | Read Full Review »
[+] ReelViews

63

Characters are left half-developed or undeveloped so that as much plot as possible can be crammed into two hours. The result, while not wholly unsatisfying, will disappoint those used to the cinematic richness we have come to expect from this collaboration.
by James Berardinelli | Read Full Review »
[+] New York Post

63

Though not as witty or accomplished as you'd expect from its pedigree, "Le Divorce" provides welcome relief from the lame-brained trash Hollywood has foisted on the public this summer.
by Jonathan Foreman | Read Full Review »

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