Kate Hudson comes to visit her step sister Naomi Watts in Paris, just at the time the latter's husband unexpectedly decides to leave her for another woman. Not wishing to divorce, Watts has to face his horrible family, the French legal system, and the crazy husband of her husband's lover (Matthew Modine). Ruth Prawer Jhabvala and Ivory adapted Diane Johnson's novel.
Hudson hooks up with Romain Duris initially, then allows herself to become the mistress of Thierry Lhermite (La Pere Noel est Une Ordure, Les Bronzées, the original Doc Martin). Leslie Caron is the tough French matriarch, Sam Waterson and Stockard Channing the American parents, Glenn Close an ex-pat writer and Stephen Fry a Christies' dealer (a possible Louis La Tour is at the heart of the story, as is a red Hermes handbag), Jean-Marc Barr a nice lawyer. Plus Nathalie Richard (Caché), Catherine Samie (old lady at apartment), Bebe Neuwirth.
It's quite a pot, photographed by Pierre Lhomme, with another elegant score from Richard Robbins, edited by John David Allen. We enjoyed it.
'To My Dear and Loving Husband' is that rather fine poem by Anne Bradstreet. Café Flore features.
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