Le Divorce movie review

aelst's review

This movie is about rich classy American woman and her family, who becomes divorced with her French husband. The movie is set in France, and seems to highlight the differences between American and French cultures. I already sense anti-French sentiment by Americans on the internet, and also with Iraq war, I suppose this movie can only make it worse.

There is a reference to a burning car, and when I visited Europe I noticed a couple of cars like that too. Why would cars start burning on the highway. I've never seen this in Australia.

For me, this was a boring movie. I'm not interested in the lives of rich French or American people. half a star.

ratbag's review

Hmm. I think I missed the plot. Or ... maybe there WAS no plot?!?

Let's just say Le Divorce feels like a Jane Austen novel, except instead of uppercrust English folks, you get uppercrust French and American folks. And it's set in France.

In Le Divorce, the uppercrust American folks are portrayed to be slightly more down-to-earth than their French counterparts, and with a bit more moral / ethics. Or maybe not. Kate Hudson's Isabel, the sister of Roxeanne (who are Americans, "of course") shows that Americans, too, can out-sleaze the French in their own games, and happily settles into her role of a mistress and two-timing on her French boyfriend (who she started shagging within seconds of their introduction).

Like the dishes they constantly show the characters eating in various classy restaurants, Le Divorce is all decoration, and lacking in substance.