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88With husband and wife starring, you can't help but wonder which details here are autobiographical. No matter: This is obviously a deeply personal work for Attal, whose comic timing and passion can only serve him well both on screen and off.
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88Gives moviegoers a funny, observant, evanescent approach to the mysteries of human desire.
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88Stylish and only superficially superficial, Happily Ever After plunks us down with three male friends as they dance on the edge of their 40s.
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80Happily Ever After is an exhilarating, joyous picture, but it's sometimes terrifying, too. It offers a vision of marriage as an adventure we embark on together, alone. If you didn't cry, you'd laugh.
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75A marital comedy as perceptive as it is delectable.
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70If this strikes some as some kind of gallingly blasé, ostentatious Parisian sophistication, it's far from it.
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70Nobody does adultery in movies with more style and zest than the French, especially when the mode is frivolous. And anyone who watches Happily Ever After can identify with the grass-is-always-greener daydreams that haunt its characters.
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70It's French. It's sexy. It's got a killer soundtrack.
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70The most important aspect of the stories about all five characters is the way they are told. Attal and his editor Jennifer Augé have found an attractive playful style: they never let the stories rest, almost juggling them, and keep them gamboling before us.
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63You need a scorecard to keep track of who's bedding whom in Happily Ever After, a tres French take on sex and love, in that order.
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63Where My Wife was offbeat and original, Happily Ever After gets bogged down in midlife-crisis cliches.
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60Manages to be a diverting and funny character study, at least most of the time.
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50There's nothing much wrong with the film; my complaint is that there's nothing much right about it.
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50This is an affair to forget.
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50Attal's characters are one-note position statements, which forces the unsubtle soundtrack - mostly American pop songs that range from the Velvet Underground's "Sunday Morning" to Radiohead's "Creep" - to bear the brunt of clarifying their thoughts and feelings. Without it, you'd be entirely in the dark.
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50The movie is kind of a mess – all over the place tonally, hastily paced, and overly reliant on the ostensible truisms of romantic comedy.
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50On the whole, the film is a shallow, shrill, and all-too-familiar marital roundelay.
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50Gainsbourg has some cute scenes with Johnny Depp, a debonair stranger she meets in a Virgin Megastore, but otherwise this is a fairly banal installment in the battle of the sexes.
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40This look at the assorted struggles of modern hetero coupledom gives off a distinctly moldy aroma.
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40Repetitive and needlessly prolonged tale does build to an inspired final scene, but it's too little, too late.
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This would-be comedy about a thirtysomething family man (Attal) and his foray into infidelity is probably the worst in the putrid bushel of recent Gallic imports.
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jdoc9Far more serious than its surface suggests. Great acting, esp. from Gainsbourg.
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