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  • Actors: Charlotte Gainsbourg, Yvan Attal, Terence Stamp, Noémie Lvovsky, Laurent Bateau
  • Directors: Yvan Attal
  • Writers: Yvan Attal
  • Producers: Claude Berri, Pierre Grunstein
  • Format: Anamorphic, PAL, Widescreen
  • Language English, French
  • 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: 15
  • Studio: Pathe Distribution
  • DVD Release Date: 19 May 2003
  • Run Time: 95 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B00008WQ8R
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 27,171 in DVD (See Bestsellers in DVD)

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My Wife Is an Actress ("Ma Femme Est une Actrice") stars Charlotte Gainsbourg--ex-child star, daughter of Serge Gainsbourg and Jane Birkin, beautiful and accomplished actress--alongside her real-life husband Yvan Attal, who also directs. Attal is a humble sports journalist married to a famous international star (played by Gainsbourg) and uncomfortable with her celebrity. His first film as a director plays knowingly with off-screen reality: the two leads even use their own names, Charlotte and Yvan, for the characters they play.

In the film, Charlotte goes to London to appear in a romantic drama opposite British movie icon John (Terence Stamp, sending himself up with some luvvie-ish posturing). Left at home, Yvan torments himself with thoughts of his wife playing sex scenes with John and his jealousy puts their marriage at risk. His visits to her on the set in London only make things worse.

There's scope here for some good comedy, as well as an interesting exploration of how, in an actor's life, reality and artifice can snarl each other up. But Attal, who also scripted, makes his characters so shallow and two-dimensional that it's hard to believe in them, let alone care about them. A sub-plot about the squabbling between Yvan's sister and her husband over whether their unborn son should be circumcised (she's Jewish, he's not) feels tacked-on and tiresome. In aspiring to script and star in his directorial debut, Attal may have overstretched himself. Given a stronger script, this could have been a funnier or more searching film, or both.

On the DVD: My Wife Is an Actress comes to disc in a clear full-screen transfer, although the dialogue's a little muffled here and there--a fault of the original, not the transfer. By way of extras we get the theatrical trailer, a likeably relaxed 16-minute "making of" featurette and a handful of not very interesting deleted scenes. --Philip Kemp



Special Features

1.85 Wide Screen
16:9 Anamorphic Wide Screen
DVD 9
French
Region 2
Dolby Digital 5.1 French
Dolby Digital 5.1
Audio Commentary
Making Of Featurette
5 Deleted Scenes
Theatrical Trailer
Scene Access
Interactive Menus
English
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars magnifique!, 19 Feb 2004
By A. Weckmann "miss moneypenny" (London) - See all my reviews
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this is one of my favourite films. its about the marriage of charlotte and ivan and how they come to terms with her being a famous actress and him being an 'ordinary guy'. needless to say that charlotte gainsbourg is one of the most charming and magnificent actresses of our time. the film is heartwarming and true, it is funny but in no way cheesy.
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3.0 out of 5 stars Good and Not So Good, 22 Oct 2008
By C. R. Downing "Chris Downing" (Chippenham, Wilts England) - See all my reviews
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I guess the good bits are that it's not the usual Hollywood stuff - but nice and european in feel. I very much like the switches between french and english and the London, Paris locations. (Not sure I'd find a taxi to take me from central London to Pinewood though!) But somehow this always feel like a film that could have been so much more. It's always feeling like it's 80% of what it should have been. But overall a nice film to watch with your partner - not really a chick flick - more neutral than that.
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