I do not understand how a team of great actors and actresses accept such bad screenplay. The characters are simply terrible, not well developed and absolutely stereotyped and ridiculous, with Frenches being sophisticated, seductive and having culture, and Americans having basic culture and common sense only. Isabel Walker (Kate Hudson) is a shallow slut visiting her sister in Paris. She arrives in the city, and a couple of days later she is shagging two guys, one of them with the age of her father. Her sister, Roxeanne de Persand (Naomi Watts), is a silly insecure and mediocre pregnant poet in deep love with her husband Charles-Henri de Persand (Melvil Poupaud). The reasons why she is so in love with him are never elaborated along the story. Charles is a great son-of-a-b*** mediocre painter born in silver spoon that leaves his daughter and his pregnant wife to have an affair with a married Russian woman, Magda Tellman (Rona Hartner). Magda's husband, Tellman (Matthew Modine), is a deranged sick guy that should be in a mental institution. Isabel becomes mistress of a sophisticated older man, Edgar Cosset (Thierry Lhermitte), a hypocrite moralist that participates in talk shows, but does not walk the way he talks, giving expensive gifts to his many lovers. Roxeanne's mother-in-law is a ridiculous old woman that shows no respect to the American family. The nicest character is the writer Olivia Pace, played by Glenn Close, but wearing an awful hair cut. In summary, I found this unpleasant movie a great deception. My vote is four.
Title (Brazil): "À Francesa" ("French Style")
Title (Brazil): "À Francesa" ("French Style")