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NUMBERS
Box Office: $738,414
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CONSENSUS
My Wife is an Actress is a delightful, snappy romantic comedy.
CAST & CREW
Charlotte Gainsbourg, Yvan Attal, Terence Stamp
Directed by Yvan Attal
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SYNOPSIS
MY WIFE IS AN ACTRESS is a clever French comedy from Yvan Attal, who directs, produces, and stars in the film. more...
MPAA RATING
R, for language and nudity/sexuality
RUNTIME
1 hour, 35 minutes
RELEASE DATES
Theatrical: Jul 12, 2002
Video: Dec 10, 2002
RELEASE COMPANY
Sony Pictures Classics
GENRE
Foreign Films, French, Comedy, Drama, Film About Film, Sex, Actresses
OFFICIAL SITE
• The Official My Wife is an Actress Site
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 "Apparently writer-director Attal thought he need only cast himself and his movie-star wife sitting around in their drawers to justify a film."
-- Erica Abeel, FILM JOURNAL INTERNATIONAL
"God help the poor woman if Attal is this insecure in real life: his fictional Yvan's neuroses are aggravating enough to exhaust the patience of even the most understanding spouse."
-- Jason Anderson, EYE WEEKLY
 "This is snappy, frothy screwball comedy awash in French understatement."
-- Jeanne Aufmuth, PALO ALTO WEEKLY
"My Wife Is an Actress works as well as it does because [the leads] are such a companionable couple."
-- Joe Baltake, SACRAMENTO BEE
"...the picture's cleverness is ironically muted by the very people who are intended to make it shine."
-- Rob Blackwelder, SPLICEDWIRE
"Attal's hang-ups surrounding infidelity are so old-fashioned and, dare I say, outdated, it's a wonder that he couldn't have brought something fresher to the proceedings simply by accident."
-- Josef Braun, VUE WEEKLY (EDMONTON, CANADA)
"Diverting French comedy in which a husband has to cope with the pesky moods of jealousy."
-- Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat, SPIRITUALITY AND HEALTH
"Not so much farcical as sour."
-- Walter Chaw, FILM FREAK CENTRAL
"It’s refreshing to see a romance this smart."
-- David Cornelius, AMAZING COLOSSAL WEBSITE
"Not too fancy, not too filling, not too fluffy, but definitely tasty and sweet."
-- Anne Crump, SAN FRANCISCO EXAMINER
"The three leads produce adequate performances, but what's missing from this material is any depth of feeling."
-- Tom Dawson, BBCI FILMS
"Neither quite a comedy nor a romance, more of an impish divertissement of themes that interest Attal and Gainsbourg -- they live together -- the film has a lot of charm."
-- David Elliott, SAN DIEGO UNION-TRIBUNE
"It's the kind of movie that ends up festooning U.S. art house screens for no reason other than the fact that it's in French (well, mostly) with English subtitles and is magically 'significant' because of that."
-- Ken Hanke, MOUNTAIN XPRESS (ASHEVILLE, NC)
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"Part comedy, part drama, the movie winds up accomplishing neither in full, and leaves us feeling touched and amused by several moments and ideas, but nevertheless dissatisfied with the movie as a whole."
-- Marjorie Baumgarten, AUSTIN CHRONICLE
"Starts off witty and sophisticated and you want to love it -- but filmmaker Yvan Attal quickly writes himself into a corner."
-- Liz Braun, JAM! MOVIES
"The film's welcome breeziness and some unbelievably hilarious moments -- most portraying the idiocy of the film industry -- make it mostly worth the trip."
-- Jordana Brown, CITYSEARCH
"My Wife's plotting is nothing special; it's the delivery that matters here."
-- Robert W. Butler, KANSAS CITY STAR
"a bilingual charmer, just like the woman who inspired it"
-- Laura Clifford, REELING REVIEWS
"Sparkling, often hilarious romantic jealousy comedy... Attal looks so much like a young Robert DeNiro that it seems the film should instead be called 'My Husband Is Travis Bickle'."
-- Jill Cozzi, COZZI FAN TUTTI CELLULOID MUSINGS
"Nice balance between real emotions and cute movie moments with a hilarious love scene."
-- Cherryl Dawson and Leigh Ann Palone, THEMOVIECHICKS.COM
"U.S. audiences may find [Attal and Gainsbourg's] unfamiliar personas give the film an intimate and quaint reality that is a little closer to human nature than what Hollywood typically concocts."
-- Duane Dudek, MILWAUKEE JOURNAL SENTINEL
"My Wife is an Actress has its moments in looking at the comic effects of jealousy. In the end, though, it is only mildly amusing when it could have been so much more."
-- Marshall Fine, JOURNAL NEWS
"Everything that has to do with Yvan and Charlotte, and everything that has to do with Yvan's rambunctious, Jewish sister and her non-Jew husband, feels funny and true."
-- Chris Hewitt, ST. PAUL PIONEER PRESS
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FRESH 73%
Avg. Rating: 6.9/10 |
"Attal pushes too hard to make this a comedy or serious drama. He seems to want both, but succeeds in making neither."
-- Sid Adilman, TORONTO STAR
"I found it slow, predictable and not very amusing."
-- Ray Conlogue, GLOBE AND MAIL
"If the movie were all comedy, it might work better. But it has an ambition to say something about its subjects, but not a willingness."
-- Roger Ebert, CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
"My Wife Is an Actress is an utterly charming French comedy that feels so American in sensibility and style it's virtually its own Hollywood remake."
-- Eric Harrison, HOUSTON CHRONICLE
"Little more than a frothy vanity project."
-- Ann Hornaday, WASHINGTON POST
"My Wife offers the best and the worst of both Allen's ego-and- neuroses-based humor and Truffaut's romanticism about love and movies."
-- Loren King, CHICAGO TRIBUNE
"Though it's not much more substantial than Woody Allen's similar Hollywood Ending, Attal's briskly paced film has a lot more energy."
-- Lou Lumenick, NEW YORK POST
"Attal mixes comedy with a serious exploration of ego and jealousy within a seemingly serene marriage."
-- Carla Meyer, SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE
"A terrifically deft picture about the thick line that separates movie glamour from the real world, and the thin line between common sense and paranoia."
-- Elvis Mitchell, NEW YORK TIMES
"The film exudes the urbane sweetness that Woody Allen seems to have bitterly forsaken."
-- Wesley Morris, BOSTON GLOBE
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"An amusing and unexpectedly insightful examination of sexual jealousy, resentment and the fine line between passion and pretence."
-- Andrew Howe, EFILMCRITIC.COM
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