| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 5, 2011

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Nov 5, 2011

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| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Oct 3, 2006

This is an affair to forget.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Sep 9, 2005

Attal taps into that unexpectedness -- the inability of just one person to captain the course of a relationship no matter how hard they try -- and he plays it for all it's worth.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 8, 2005

Gets bogged down in midlife-crisis cliches.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Sep 1, 2005

There are a few quality moments, but this fairy tale is far from enchanting.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Aug 26, 2005

Whatever points screenwriter/director Attal is trying to make about relationship envy get lost as the marital conflicts become more contrived and shrill.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Aug 12, 2005

Attal doesn't illuminate Vincent's motives for straying, and unwisely suggests Vincent's philandering and Gabrielle's daydreaming are somehow morally equivalent.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Aug 12, 2005

In a world filled with empty lust and marital discord, Yvan Attal's wistful comedy is about a guy who loves his wife.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jul 29, 2005

Attal knows that no matter how adult we feel when we say, 'I do,' marriage is all child's play: jealousy, lies and pure, unconditional love. Perplexing, but not a bad option.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jul 28, 2005

There's nothing much wrong with the film; my complaint is that there's nothing much right about it.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jul 28, 2005

The story in the French Happily Ever After is about as exciting as that bland, mistranslated title. But the filmmaking? Very exciting.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Jul 14, 2005

Happily Ever After is never as insightful or as funny as Woody at his best. But the film has a fine-tuned approach to human behavior.

Full Review | Original Score: B- | Jun 30, 2005

A sour, grating comedy-drama about fidelity and infidelity among the Parisian bourgeoisie...certainly won't send you home with a smile on your face.

| Original Score: C- | Jun 20, 2005

Attal is creative in crafting cinematic mood, using focus and camera movements to subtly but deftly enhance and even anticipate emotions.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 17, 2005

A meditation on the joys and frustrations of monogamy that manages to be a diverting and funny character study at least most of the time.

| Jun 17, 2005

Whether any of them will live happily ever after is a question you're left pondering long after this challenging film comes to a close.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jun 17, 2005

This is a fetching piece of work, both comical and savvy, and Gainsborough's brisk, forward intelligence rescues Gabrielle from snags of marital self-pity.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 17, 2005

It's French. It's sexy. It's got a killer soundtrack.

| Jun 16, 2005