Le Divorce is described by All Movies on the Spout web site as a “romantic comedy.” So I’ll tell you the plot and you can decide if it is. The younger sister, Isabel (Kate Hudson), shows up in Paris to help your sister, Roxeanne (Naomi Watts), through her second pregnancy only to encounter the French husband walking out for another woman (a Russian artist) and breaking Roxeanne’s heart (hilarious, endearing!). As divorce lawyers circle and Roxeanne cries, Isabel starts sleeping with a young bohemian (true love!) but soon decides to become the high class mistress of a French diplomat who repeatedly seduces the same kind of young women and buys them the same kind of gifts and dumps them in the same way (ha! ha! charming!). Meanwhile, the American husband of the Russian woman becomes increasingly unstable (ha! ha! very romantic), kills Roxeanne’s husband and dumps him in a garbage container (rich! delightful!), and then brandishes the pistol at some of Roxeanne’s family on top of the Eiffel Tower (deliciously funny!). The family heirloom painting that the families and lawyers have been haggling over turns out to be a La Tour original, sells for an amazing amount at auction, and allows the family to start a charity. Funny? Romantic? Worth watching?
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