Le Divorce
Le Divorce is a 2003 romantic comedy-drama film directed by James Ivory from a screenplay by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala and Ivory, based on the 1997 novel of the same name by Diane Johnson.
Plot
Isabel Walker travels to Paris to visit her sister Roxy, a poet who lives with her husband, Frenchman Charles-Henri de Persand, and their young daughter, Gennie. Roxy is pregnant, but her husband has just walked out on her without explanation. Isabel discovers that he has a mistress, a Russian woman named Magda Tellman, whom he intends to marry after securing a divorce from Roxy. Roxy refuses to divorce him.
Cast
- Anne Canovas
- Bebe Neuwirth
- Catherine Samie
- Daniel Mesguich
- Françoise Brion
- Glenn Close
- Hélène Surgère
- Humbert Balsan
- Jean-Marc Barr
- Jean-Pierre Bouvier
- Joseph Chanet
- Kate Hudson
- Leslie Caron
- Marie-Christine Adam
- Matthew Modine
- Melvil Poupaud
- Micky Sébastian
- Naomi Watts
- Nathalie Richard
- Pierre Aussedat
- Romain Duris
- Rona Hartner
- Sam Waterston
- Samuel Labarthe
- Stephen Fry
- Stockard Channing
- Thierry Lhermitte
- Thomas Lennon
- Valérie Lang
More details
| author | James Ivory Ruth Prawer Jhabvala |
|---|---|
| contentLocation | Paris |
| director | James Ivory |
| editor | John David Allen |
| genre | comedy-drama |
| keywords | apartment complex art auction brunch crime of passion date eiffel tower georges de la tour hermes j. paul getty museum kelly bag kill louvre married murder paint russian woman saint ursula string young daughter young love |
| musicBy | Richard Robbins |
| producer | Ismail Merchant Michael Schiffer |
| productionCompany | Interscope Communications Merchant Ivory Productions Radar Pictures |
| publisher | Fox Searchlight Pictures |
| recordedAt | Paris |
| theme | romantic comedy |