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06/11/05
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
A tremendously provocative date movie for couples brave enough to face each other afterward.
06/10/05
Attal has a way of interweaving his characters' real lives and inner thoughts into the fabric of his film in inventive and engaging ways.
05/13/05
...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
The main reason to see it is to witness a fine lady making the most of what she's been given to play.
05/06/05
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 CriticIf 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
This look at the assorted struggles of modern hetero coupledom gives off a distinctly moldy aroma.
05/05/05
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
There's very little wit, charm or even energy on display.
04/14/05
Top CriticNone of these men, unfortunately, is a very compelling character.
04/14/05
A frothy, amusing Parisian romantic comedy.
04/13/05
Attal's characters are one-note position statements, which forces the unsubtle soundtrack...to bear the brunt of clarifying their thoughts and feelings.
04/11/05
There's little you haven't seen in any number of French flicks, but then, most of them didn't have Gainsbourg.
04/08/05
This is terrific filmmaking.
04/08/05
Bereft of the meta elements that characterized the filmmaker’s previous My Wife Is An Actress.
04/08/05
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
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
Anyone who watches Yvan Attal's breezy, skin-deep sex comedy can identify with the grass-is-always-greener daydreams that haunt its characters.
04/07/05
Top CriticIf there is any doubt as to whether French cinema is in a state of free fall, Yvan Attal's Happily Ever After should put such uncertainties to rest.
04/07/05
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