Le Divorce Movie Review 2003

Cutie blonde American Isabel Walker (Hudson) heads to Paris to support her equally blonde but depressed pregnant sister Roxeanne (Watts) whose French husband Charles-Henri (Poupard) has walked out because of an obsessive affair. Hubby insists on a quick divorce but Roxy is refusing. Meanwhile, Isabel becomes involved with Charles-Henri's worldly uncle, Edgar (Lhermitte), who knows how to begin and end an affair with aplomb (and gifts). A culture clash comedy of manners that's brittle with artifice. Based on the 1997 novel by Diane Johnson.

Distribution

Fox Home Entertainment, PO Box 900, Beverly Hills, CA 90213, Phone: (310)369-3900, Toll-free: 888-223-4FOX, Fax: (310)369-5811, URL: http://www.foxmovies.com/index1.html, Remarks: Also known as Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment

Available on VHS, DVD
Running time 115 minutes.
Originally from United States.

Cast and Crew

Genres

Paris, Brothers & Sisters, Divorce, Adultery, Aunts & Uncles, Nieces & Nephews, In-Laws, Culture Clash, Pregnant Pauses

Screenplay

Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

Cast

Kate Hudson, Naomi Watts, Thierry Lhermitte, Melvil Poupaud, Leslie Caron, Glenn Close, Stockard Channing, Sam Waterston, Thomas Lennon, Matthew Modine, Rona Hartner, Jean-Marc Barr, Stephen Fry, Bebe Neuwirth, Samuel Labarthe, Nathalie Richard, Romain Duris, Daniel Mesguich

Cinematography

Pierre Lhomme

Director

James Ivory

Music

Richard Robbins

Other

Ludovic Henault, John David Allen, Carol Ramsey, Frederic Benard

Producer

Ismail Merchant, Michael Schiffer, Merchant-Ivory Productions, Radar Pictures, Fox Searchlight