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My Wife Is an Actress (2001)
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Original name: Ma femme est une actrice
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
My Wife is an Actress is a French Romantic Comedy/Drama film starring real life couple Yvan Attal and Charlotte Gainsbourg. Attal plays a journalist who becomes obsessively jealous when his actress wife gets a part in a movie with an attractive co-star. Attal also wrote and directed the film.
Style:
melancholic, disturbing, stylized, touching, semi serious, humorous, witty, erotic, clever, sexy ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
jealous husband, love story, brutality, lifestyle, dishonesty, journalism, couples, actor's life, couple relations, relationship vs career, relationships, women, nude, adultery, infidelity, actress, male female relationship, mother son relationship, police investigation, love, sex, jewish, pregnancy, writers, hotel ...
Time:
21st century, contemporary
Place:
france, paris france, london, israel, england, europe, new york ...
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