The posters and other advertising material for this film make one think that 'Le Divorce' is a sweet and charming Parisian romantic comedy, but instead the audience is subjected to nearly two hours of poorly thought-out characters, a plot that goes nowhere, depressing lives and confusing motives.
'Le Divorce' is a conspicuously anti-male and anti-French film. Virtually every (French) male character is either selfish, arrogant, slimy, stupid or all of the above. Is every French man so worthless?
Why set a film in France if you are only going to ridicule and complain about the French? It's as if the filmmakers seem to think that only Americans know what is truly right and wrong and everyone else is either backwards or dumb.
The American attitude to other cultures is so condescending that one feels physically sick. In one scene, Glen Close's character thinks aloud about writing a book about the French and their strange ways, as if she were a Christian missionary or Imperialist, wanting to chronicle the quaint ways of the 'natives'. In another scene on a train someone asks "Is this the Middle Ages?", with the reply being, "No, this is France". Since Americans in general seem so intimidated by European culture and intelligence they feel they must deride all native Europeans in such a manner.
Naomi Watts, someone whom I admire greatly, was so uninteresting and morose that I was glad whenever she left a scene. Whenever someone voiced an opinion or idea that was not 'hip-PC' then her character would grumble.
'Le Divorce' was tough going, it wasn't entertaining in any way, nor is it a film I would recommend to anyone else.
