Attal has a way of interweaving his characters' real lives and inner thoughts into the fabric of his film in inventive and engaging ways.
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05/13/05
Happily Ever After (2005)
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Reviews Counted:40
Fresh:23
Rotten:17
Average Rating:6/10
Consensus: Though this French film features good acting, it lacks the wit and charm one would expect to see.
Runtime: 1 hr 45 mins
Genre: Foreign Films
Synopsis: Yvan Attal writes, directs, and stars in this meditation on extra-marital affairs. When he and his wife (Charlotte Gainsbourg) find they are both attracted to other people, even though they are... [More]
Starring: Yvan Attal, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Alain Chabat, Emmanuelle Seigner
Director: Yvan Attal
Reviews for Happily Ever After
Attal knows that no matter how adult we feel when we say, 'I do,' marriage is all child's play: jealousy, lies and pure, unconditional love. Perplexing, but not a bad option.
07/28/05
If you ever get a chance to see Happily Ever After at any venue and in any form, drop everything and see it.
05/05/05
...But, for the most part, Attal’s psychological insights and his skill with actors...draw us into the characters’ lives, in ways that are never less than sympathetic.
05/08/05
A meditation on the joys and frustrations of monogamy that manages to be a diverting and funny character study at least most of the time.
06/17/05
Like the story, the camerawork in Happily Ever After is loose, fluid and intent on discovery; it lets characters' moments together and alone unfurl easily and casually in a way that Hollywood seems to want to avoid like failure.
05/05/05
Top CriticThe story in the French Happily Ever After is about as exciting as that bland, mistranslated title. But the filmmaking? Very exciting.
07/14/05
This is a fetching piece of work, both comical and savvy, and Gainsborough's brisk, forward intelligence rescues Gabrielle from snags of marital self-pity.
06/17/05
Happily Ever After is never as insightful or as funny as Woody at his best. But the film has a fine-tuned approach to human behavior.
06/30/05
A delightful French film about the different shades of love and lust as experienced by a married couple and the husband's two best friends.
04/08/05
A frothy, amusing Parisian romantic comedy.
04/13/05
This is terrific filmmaking.
04/08/05
full review in Greek
10/03/06
Scenes of impressive subtlety and thoughtfulness centering around the pensive Gabrielle [Charlotte Gainsbourg] are overshadowed by the antics of the middle-aged men.
04/08/05
Attal taps into that unexpectedness -- the inability of just one person to captain the course of a relationship no matter how hard they try -- and he plays it for all it's worth.
09/08/05
It's French. It's sexy. It's got a killer soundtrack.
06/16/05
Attal is creative in crafting cinematic mood, using focus and camera movements to subtly but deftly enhance and even anticipate emotions.
06/17/05
In a world filled with empty lust and marital discord, Yvan Attal’s wistful comedy is about a guy who loves his wife.
07/29/05
Whether any of them will live happily ever after is a question you're left pondering long after this challenging film comes to a close.
06/17/05
The picture is neither comedy nor drama but an irridescent blending of the two, like the complex sky of a Turner painting.
04/14/05
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