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My Wife is an Actress

Posted on August 17, 2018 by Village Vidiot

I thought this an interesting little film about a French sportswriter (Yvonne Attal who also wrote and directed the film and is a less well known actor) who is more than a little envious of his much more successful and better known English actress-wife (Charlotte Gainsborough—Attal’s real life companion). He follows her to London where she is doing a movie with John, played by Terrence Stamp, to see if she’s having an affair, as so often happens in real life and seems to have happened in the film also. To try to understand her better, he also takes acting lessons and has an unconsummated affair with a fellow student. There are subplots about his being Jewish and her not, and his sister’s Jewishness and marriage. There are some wonderfully strange and funny pieces here about screen nudity, but also some interesting questions about Attal directing his wife in a nude scene with another man and all this happening in a film about him being jealous that he in fact wrote. So let’s just assume these folks have all really talked about what’s going on here

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