Le divorce
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  • Starring: Kate Hudson, Naomi Watts
  • Summary: In this modern-day comedy of manners, American sisters Isabel (Hudson) and Roxy (Watts) come face to face with the complicated social mores of French society. Cultures clash and scandals ensue as the sisters learn what it really takes to be an American in Paris. (Fox Searchlight Pictures)

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 15 out of 36
  2. Mixed: 16 out of 36
  3. Negative: 5 out of 36
  1. Washington Post
    Reviewed by: Desson Thomson
    80
    A relaxed delight, a series of delicately tongue-in-cheek musings about the clash between American and French cultures.
  2. L.A. Weekly
    Reviewed by: Ella Taylor
    60
    For a movie that boasts a murder, a would-be suicide and the usual generous helping of screwing around à la français, Le Divorce is remarkably calm and contained even as it builds to its climax.
  3. Chicago Tribune
    Reviewed by: Mark Caro
    50
    Somehow lacks lightness and weight. This is a movie that tries to work a bloody suicide attempt and a murder into a comedy of manners, with almost everything registering in the same narrow spectrum of inconsequence.
  4. Dallas Observer
    Reviewed by: Gregory Weinkauf
    30
    At its best (which isn't much), Le Divorce blusters along with the tolerable tedium of had-to-be-there home movies; at its worst (which is about 90 percent), it illustrates why the French went and invented the word merde.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 4 out of 12
  2. Mixed: 2 out of 12
  3. Negative: 6 out of 12
  1. NickS.
    4
    Usually when I watch a film based on a bestseller that I haven't read, I run out to buy the book. Seabiscuit is a good example. I understand how tough it is to adapt a book but this film made it look impossible. The film couldn't decide what it was about. I went in thinking that it was a romantic comedy but there was hardly any romance and no comedy!! I could count how many times I laughed on one hand. Throw in an attempted suicide, some murders, and depressed women and call that a comedy?!?! I don't think so. Matthew Modine was the only funny character in the film but I'm pretty sure that he wasn't supposed to be. Kate Hudson plays the same character she always does and Naomi Watts was just plain ordinary. I did enjoy the portrayal of the American family, especially when they were in Paris. Overall, I wasn't impressed with this film at all and thought it wasted a lot of talent and a gorgeous location with a mediocre script that couldn't decide what it wanted to be. Merchant-Ivory should go back to period films because they have no idea how to make something else. But if you're fan of the book, it supposedly stays relatively true to it and other fans in the audience enjoyed the film. If you're not a fan of the book, go see Bad Boys II.… Expand
  2. joe
    1
    Horrifying little movie by someone who is probably the sort of person who still calls french fries "freedom fries." For all the eye candy on the screen, everyone manages to come off extremely ugly. Avoid.… Expand
  3. RobC
    0
    So loaded with feminist propaganda that every development left me in no suspense as to its purpose and outcome. Reminiscent of old Soviet movies. Excruciating.… Expand

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