While mileage may vary depending on your history with the film’s subject, 90 minutes with Deneuve is rarely ill spent.

| Original Score: 3/4 | May 8, 2025

The President’s Wife is a low-key comedy but outstanding for this period of humorless politics.

| May 1, 2025

To whatever degree any of The President’s Wife is funny, insightful or affecting, that potential begins and ends with the casting and performance of Catherine Deneuve.

| Apr 23, 2025

Does she make compromises along the way that sell out her convictions and even members of her family? Yes. But does being on 온라인카지노추천 all the time mean that Karl Lagerfeld shows up so that she won't be wearing last year's Chanel? Also yes.

| Apr 22, 2025

This wildly entertaining film blends stylish family soap opera with intriguing behind the scenes political drama, and gives the brilliant Catherine Deneuve a great late career role as Bernadette, the former First Lady of France

| Apr 22, 2025

If you do not mind a film that is glossy, two-dimensional fun with a simplified message about chauvinism than a rigorous reflection on the politics of the past, then “The President’s Wife” is for you. The acting is seamless.

| Original Score: B | Apr 22, 2025

As a female empowerment tale, The President’s Wife proves predictable, yet the tone remains light and Deneuve charms as a woman of wit, spine, and intelligence.

| Apr 21, 2025

Ms. Deneuve takes a bite out of this sour apple role and brings a nuanced humanity to it. Co-writer/director Domenach emphasizes the the sharp-elbowed game of politics, where the cult of personality can sway bad press to good. W/Léa Domenach interview.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 19, 2025

Directed and co-written by first-time filmmaker Léa Domenach, the movie is beautifully anchored by Deneuve, who is so regal in her performance you forget she isn’t playing royalty.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Apr 19, 2025

Deneuve is delicious in a role affectionately crafted for her.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 18, 2025

Deneuve shines in the title role of this lighthearted biopic, which makes for a delightful examination of political sexism and media savvy.

| Apr 18, 2025

In Bernadette its original title in French. the director and co-writer Léa Domenach, shines between sarcasm, black humor and sensational decorum. [Full Review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 18, 2025

At times playfully quaint and others sharply witty, the film maneuvers an environment of stuffy prestige and constant charading with deft hands

| Original Score: 3/4 | Apr 18, 2025

This marks the feature film debut of director/co-writer Léa Domenach who shows a deft touch balancing both the comedy and the more dramatic moments. With the radiant Deneuve leading the way, “The President’s Wife” is a delight.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 18, 2025

his too-mild depiction of spiky real-world personalities needed an actress capable of making bottled-up resentment furiously palpable -- and funny. Instead, it has Deneuve gliding through like a chic parade float, dignified but imperturbable.

| Apr 17, 2025

It's all treated lightly and without a shred of angst, and Deneuve -- serene and bemused by the various idiocies she has to confront -- is just the icon to pull it off.

| Apr 17, 2025

One doesn’t need to like the Chiracs’ politics (I certainly do not share them) to enjoy the film. The ironic approach to the story often proves a delight, though things stall towards the end, Domenach losing a little bit of control over the tone.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Apr 17, 2025

While Deneuve brings a wonderful blend of neuroses and feigned indifference to her character, the film’s pop-feminist through line dulls the comedy, creating a more conventionally celebratory portrait.

| Apr 17, 2025

Some of this French history lesson will be lost on people...but no matter what, any opportunity to see Deneuve strut her stuff is well worth it.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Apr 17, 2025

The President's Wife ... falls well short of communicating the ... real-world politics ... and portraying Bernadette as much more than a vessel for the movie's central lesson.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Apr 17, 2025