Charlotte Gainsbourg, Yvan Attal, Alain Chabat

Vincent and Gabrielle are married, have stable jobs, a healthy son and a harmonious relationship. Yet, after a series of failed attempts at revitalizing their marital routine, Vincent begins a heated ...( read more  read more... )affair with another woman and Gabrielle spins into introspection -- while hiding from Vincent that she knows of his infidelity. Distraught at the state of her marriage, Gabrielle wanders in anguish and is eventually drawn towards a random man whom she spots inside a Virgin Megastore. The handsome stranger glances at her while both listen to the same song. And mysteriously, the two of them share a fleeting but intensely intimate moment in the middle of an anonymous crowd. When he leaves the store, Gabrielle is even more vulnerable than before. Concomitantly, and in comedy crisis mode, George and Nathalie argue loud and violently -- the former suffocating in his wife's feminist demands and the latter feeling trapped in a monogamous relationship. Looking for solace, George buys an expensive Mercedes and turns to his old friends, Vincent and Fred. Although all three men keep each other company, even their weekly soccer games and poker nights do not protect them from mid-life anguish. Fred is still single -- and proudly so. He sleeps with a series of spectacular women and plays the role of liberated straight male for his pals. But while Vincent and George struggle, with no success, to understand Fred's sex appeal, they cannot see that Fred also yearns for a change of pace.

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Unrated, 1 hr. 40 min.

Directed by: Yvan Attal

Release Date: January 1, 2004

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  • April 21, 2009
    "Stop Yelling! And stop boxing, people will think I beat you!"

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    A delightful French film about the different shades of love and lust as experienced by a married couple and the husband's two best friends. Like Yvan Attal's previous My Wife is an Actress, the film is neither comedy nor drama but an iridescent blending of the two, like the complex sky of a Turner painting. Attal's psychological insights and his skill with actors draw us into the characters' lives, in ways that are never less than sympathetic, and he's becoming a damn good filmmaker; his camerawork is always loose, fluid and intent on discovery; it adores Charlotte Gainsbourg at all times and lets characters' moments together and alone unfurl easily and casually in a way that Hollywood seems to want to avoid like failure. The sort of frothy, amusing and tremendously provocative Parisian romantic comedy that Eric Rohmer used to do so well.
  • October 10, 2009
    J'aime bien les films d'Yvan Attal, et je l'aime bien comme comédien aussi. J'aime bien les films dans lesquels joue Gainsbourg et Chabat. Tous les éléments sont là et pourtant... et pourtant je n'aime que ça.
  • April 12, 2009
    Esta pelicula es fenomenal. Las actuaciones son de lujo, dialogos muy buenos. Nota especial: la aparicion inesperada de Johnny Deep le da un giro interesante a la pelicula.
  • March 29, 2009
    want to see sometime in my life.
  • August 5, 2008
    Je n'ai vu que la moitie du film mais assez pour voir Johnny Depp parler en français... trop sexy!

    I only saw half of the movie but enough to see Johnny Depp speak in French... sooo hot!
  • August 2, 2008
    Really interesting movie that i watched because there was Johnny Depp's cameo.. his power is really huge ! xDD
    Itherwise a good french movie, entertaining.
  • June 10, 2008
    I wish I could watch every movie ever made but I sadly don't have the time. I'm not interested in this movie because I don't think I'll like it or don't know enough about it to think I might like it. I may still end up seeing it some day though.
  • May 13, 2008
    i hate affair movies
  • February 22, 2008
    johnny depp....need i say more?

Critic Reviews


September 1, 2005
Steven Rea, Philadelphia Inquirer

Gets bogged down in midlife-crisis cliches. full review

July 28, 2005
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times

There's nothing much wrong with the film; my complaint is that there's nothing much right about it. full review

June 10, 2005
Ty Burr, Boston Globe

A tremendously provocative date movie for couples brave enough to face each other afterward. full review

April 14, 2005
Stephanie Zacharek, Salon.com

The picture is neither comedy nor drama but an irridescent blending of the two, like the complex sky of a Turner painting. full review

April 8, 2005
Nick Schager, Slant Magazine

Bereft of the meta elements that characterized the filmmaker's previous My Wife Is An Actress. full review

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