My Wife is an Actress Critic Reviews

The film's most endearing trait is that these people sincerely love movies, and they truly love their own idiosyncrasies. And is that not the greatest love of all?Read the full review

With every detail in this clever peekaboo, the sly filmmaker dangles the possibility that fiction is fact and that Yvan and Charlotte are real -- or at least as real as the movies.Read the full review

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.Read the full review

Gainsbourg's character seems too sweet to be true until she tangles with her onscreen director over nudity. The fire Gainsbourg brings to the scene suggests she's had similar battles.Read the full review

It circles the possibility of mental and spiritual infidelity like a cat wondering if a mouse might still be alive. Watching it, I felt it would be fascinating to see a movie that was really, truthfully, fearlessly about this subject.Read the full review

The French are very good at taking sit-commy setups and cloaking the machinery with charming and surprisingly resonant comic nuance.Read the full review

A sporadically amusing but ultimately very slight showbiz story about being married to a celebrity. Most of the jokes and situations are predictable, and the film is saddled with irritating supporting characters.Read the full review

Mr. Attal's real-life problem is his simplistic script, which makes the husband a childish fool and a bit of a bore.Read the full review

A blackhearted little film. What's being marketed as a frothy French confection about jealousy (specifically the jealousy of a regular guy married to a famous movie star) also just so happens to be a portrait of a marriage going down the toilet.Read the full review