Starts off witty and sophisticated and you want to love it -- but filmmaker Yvan Attal quickly writes himself into a corner.
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10/11/02
My Wife is an Actress (2002)
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Reviews Counted:72
Fresh:47
Rotten:25
Average Rating:6.2/10
Consensus: My Wife is an Actress is a delightful, snappy romantic comedy.
Runtime: 1 hr 35 mins
Genre: Foreign Films
Synopsis: MY WIFE IS AN ACTRESS is a clever French comedy from Yvan Attal, who directs, produces, and stars in the film. Jealous and paranoid, Yvan (Attal) is the husband of Charlotte (Charlotte Gainsbourg),... [More]
Starring: Charlotte Gainsbourg, Yvan Attal, Terence Stamp, Noemie Lvovsky
Director: Yvan Attal
Reviews for My Wife is an Actress
Not only is this material slight, it also seems ridiculously padded.
10/11/02
I found it slow, predictable and not very amusing.
10/11/02
A funny valentine to show business and marriage, an inside joke that plays humorously for anybody to grasp.
10/11/02
My Wife Is an Actress is an utterly charming French comedy that feels so American in sensibility and style it's virtually its own Hollywood remake.
09/20/02
My Wife's plotting is nothing special; it's the delivery that matters here.
09/12/02
The situation and humor are sitcom quality at best.
09/08/02
Part comedy, part drama, the movie winds up accomplishing neither in full, and leaves us feeling touched and amused by several moments and ideas, but nevertheless dissatisfied with the movie as a whole.
09/01/02
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08/31/02
Top CriticThe film's as witty as any subtitled movie has a right to be.
08/22/02
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08/17/02
It's Othello Lite -- minus that bit at the end about murder-suicide, but with every ounce of Shakespeare's insane emotion.
08/16/02
Little more than a frothy vanity project.
08/16/02
This French marriage comedy is a not-so -entertaining offering from real-life married couple actor-director Yvan Attal and actress Charlotte Gainsbourg, daughter of French crooner Serge Gainsbourg.
08/16/02
My Wife Is an Actress works as well as it does because [the leads] are such a companionable couple.
08/16/02
U.S. audiences may find [Attal and Gainsbourg's] unfamiliar personas give the film an intimate and quaint reality that is a little closer to human nature than what Hollywood typically concocts.
08/15/02
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08/15/02
Top CriticAttal sets us up to expect some kind of inside look at the predicament posed by the title and premise of his movie. On that basis, My Wife Is an Actress, blandly pleasant as it is, is a bit of a cheat.
08/12/02
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08/09/02
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