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  • Actors: Kate Hudson, Naomi Watts, Stockard Channing, Jean-Marie Lhomme, Esmée Buchet-Deàk
  • Directors: James Ivory
  • Writers: James Ivory, Diane Johnson, Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
  • Producers: Erica Huggins, Ismail Merchant, Michael Schiffer, Paul Bradley
  • Format: Anamorphic, PAL, Widescreen
  • Language English, French
  • Subtitles: English
  • Region: Region 2 (This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe. Read more about DVD formats.)
  • Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Classification: 12
  • Studio: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
  • DVD Release Date: 2 Feb 2004
  • Run Time: 117 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 2.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (22 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B0000WST6A
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 12,690 in DVD (See Bestsellers in DVD)

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Merchant-Ivory leave heaving corsets behind for the contemporary world of Americans in Paris in Le Divorce. The day Isabel Walker (Kate Hudson) comes to visit her pregnant sister Roxy (Naomi Watts) is the day Roxy's French husband leaves her. The divorce proceedings centre around a painting, long owned by the Walkers, that the husband's family would like to claim--but their manoeuvrings are complicated when Isabel begins an affair with a diplomat (Thierry Lhermitte) who just happens to be Roxy's uncle-in-law. At its best moments, Le Divorce has the feel of one of Woody Allen's serio-comic films like Hannah and Her Sisters, and there's a genuinely suspenseful climactic scene on the Eiffel Tower. There's also a star-studded supporting cast, including Leslie Caron, Glenn Close, Matthew Modine, Stephen Fry, Sam Waterston and Stockard Channing. --Bret Fetzer


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In a captivating, sexy comedy with a stellar ensemble cast, Isabel (Kate Hudson) heads to Paris to help out her sister (Naomi Watts) and arrives to find her jilted by her French husband. To take their minds off these marital woes, the sisters take Paris by storm, making new acquaintances by attending parties where natives and expatriates mingle. Cross-cultural romances, culture clashes and scandals ensue.
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars City of light, 1 Jan 2006
By E. A Solinas "ea_solinas" (MD USA) - See all my reviews
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The City of Light is certainly full of it -- "Le Divorce" brims over with gorgeous scenery, light-filled streets, and dozens of minor aesthetic details. The plot is fairly flimsy, and most of the acting requires little stretching, but it's an amusing piece of anti-romantic fluff.

Hippie-esque Isabel Walker (Kate Hudson) is coming to Paris to look after her pregnant sister Roxy (Naomi Watts). But Isabel walks into the building just as her brother-in-law Charles-Henri (Melvil Poupaud) walks out -- for good. He wants a divorce so he can marry a seductive Russian married woman but Roxy puts her foot down and won't give him a divorce so easily.

As the two wrangle over the custody of priceless art and their two kids (one still unborn), Isabel slips into a fling with Charles-Henri's sexy middle-aged uncle Edgar (Thierry Lhermitte), while working for one of his former flings (Glenn Close). As the divorce nears and emotions work to a boil, the separation is granted in an unexpected way...

"Le Divorce" is not quite a romance per se. Instead it's more of a comedy of manners and a societal satire all in one. Not a very barbed satire, but it calmly skewers the hypocrisies and mores of French civilization. One particularly enticing subplot is Leslie Caron's bigoted character, who automatically sides with her scuzzy son rather than her wronged, pregnant daughter-in-law. Unfortunately, whenever this starts to rev up, it takes a backseat to "Kate Hudson's Shopping Spree in Paris."

The direction is pretty solid, making the atmosphere tense or lightweight when it needs to be. There's lots of clothes and shopping, some low-key romantic interests -- like that guy who looks like he's touched a live wire, or the bald lawyer -- and the occasional moment of tragedy, like Roxy's suicide attempt. But the plot seems to wander in the last third of the film, when the Americans arrive and Isabel's romance starts to sputter out with hardly any problems.

Hudson really doesn't get to do much in this film except look perky, although her transformation from bohemian to Parisian chic is striking. Watts is the real winner of the film, with her restrained tears and quiet intensity. Poupaud also manages to give some dimension to an utterly unsympathetic person, and Caron is fairly amusing as the politely catty mother-in-law from hell.

There's nothing outstanding about "Le Divorce" -- it's merely a piece of light fluff, pretty as a Parisian postcard. Fairly amusing, but not much more than a Euro-flavored chick-flick.
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8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars For lovers of French style only, 16 Nov 2005
If you are fond of linear plots in which one event leads to another and the whole leads to a more or less apparent conclusion, "Le divorce" is not likely to leave much of an impression on you. It is not even one of those typical Merchant Ivory films which hark back nostalgically to Victorian England or the times of the Raj. "Le divorce" is something like a voyeur peep into the life of two families, one upper-crust French, the other high-brow American, which are bound together by the couple whose marriage is drifting apart. The plot's dramatic flair has not been exploited enough, but as a work of art the film is delicious, especially if you like anything French: superb decors, shots of Paris, the understated stardom of a plush Hermès Kelly bag and Leslie Caron's appearance as the embodiment of French chic and cartesian rationale...all these things should appeal to you. Glenn Close is also breathtaking as ever as the American writer who after many years of living in Paris has impeccably assimilated the best of both cultures. This is not a film for a rainy afternoon or for people who seek to beguile their jaded senses. It is a film for the dilettanti, the bon vivants, to be savoured fully like a vintage bordeaux.
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7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars Virtually worthless as entertainment, 8 Jan 2006
By Joseph Haschka (Glendale, CA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Le Divorce [DVD] [2003] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC] (DVD)
Had I not been watching LE DIVORCE with my wife, who seemed marginally entertained, I would likely have walked out.

As the film opens, American Isabel Walker (Kate Hudson) is passing through Immigration at Charles DeGaulle Airport in Paris. She's in town to stay with her newly pregnant sister, Roxeanne (Naomi Watts), who's married to Frenchman Charles-Henri de Persand (Melvil Poupaud). Unfortunately, Isabel literally arrives at her sister's residence just as Charles is leaving his wife for another woman. He departs in the same cab that deposits his sister-in-law on the doorstep.

As it turns out, Charles is having an affair with Magda, a married Russian girl. Charles wants a divorce; Roxeanne doesn't. Charles comes across as a real piece of bandini. Rather than provide her sister with support, or maybe even just scratch Charles's eyes out, Isabel starts her own affair with fifty-something Edgar (Thierry Lhermitte), an uncle to Charles on his mother's side.

The apparent point of this film is to spotlight the differing French and American cultural attitudes towards marriage, sex, divorce, and extra-marital affairs. (Well, duh!) Is it a comedy or a drama? It's hard to tell, and doesn't succeed at either because, except for Roxeanne (with whom an American audience will perhaps strongly sympathize), there are no engaging characters whatsoever. Moreover, several are absolutely useless to the storyline, e.g. an expatriate American writer played by Glenn Close, her scruffy house painter, Magda's jarringly unpleasant and mentally disturbed husband (Matthew Modine), and the Walker parents (Stockard Channing and Sam Waterston). There's also a superfluous subplot involving an old painting, perhaps by a master, perhaps not, inherited by the Walkers, taken to Paris by Roxeanne, and now being fought over by the Walker and de Persand families, the former wishing to auction it off. Finally, a sequence at the very end of a red handbag floating over the rooftops of the city must be one of the stupidest symbolisms, if that's what it was, ever put on film.

The absolute sole reason I gave two stars to this waste of my time is that it was filmed in beautiful Paris. There's a sequence involving the Eiffel Tower that, for those who haven't visited the structure, is almost as good as being there. Other than that, unless you're wondering whatever happened to Leslie Caron (who plays Charles's mother), or are a rabid fan of Kate Hudson, don't bother. LE DIVORCE is on my list of the least-deserving 2003 films I've seen.

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1.0 out of 5 stars Absolute Rubbish!
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