My Wife Is An Actress

A sports writer (writer/director Yvan Attal) becomes increasingly jealous of his movie star wife (Charlotte Gainsbourg, Attal’s wife in real life); eventually he becomes such a nuisance about it that her suave leading man (Terence Stamp) begins to look attractive by comparison. There’s a cute “money” nude scene and a subplot about whether the husband’s sister will have her new baby circumcised, but both of them play like distractions—as if Attal started out to make a movie about what it’s like to be married to a big star (something he knows about in real life), then decided he wasn’t really comfortable getting into it and is trying to change the subject. The movie is blandly pleasant—Attal and Gainsbourg’s real-life rapport transfers easily to the screen—but also something of a cheat.