My Wife Is an Actress
| My Wife is an Actress | |
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| Directed by | Yvan Attal |
| Produced by | Claude Berri |
| Written by | Yvan Attal |
| Starring |
Yvan Attal Charlotte Gainsbourg Terence Stamp Noémie Lvovsky |
| Music by | Brad Mehldau |
| Cinematography | Rémy Chevrin |
| Edited by | Jennifer Augé |
Production company | |
| Distributed by | Pathé |
Release dates |
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Running time | 95 minutes |
| Country | France |
| Language |
French English |
| Budget | $5.9 million |
| Box office | $10.7 million[1] |
My Wife is an Actress (French: Ma femme est une actrice) is a French romantic comedy-drama film starring 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. The film stars Terence Stamp among others. This film is also highly biographic, as Yvan and Charlotte are a real life couple since 1991, and have three children. According to Yvan, the idea and a part of the plot originates from real life events.[2]
Cast
- Charlotte Gainsbourg as Charlotte
- Yvan Attal as Yvan
- Terence Stamp as John
- Noémie Lvovsky as Nathalie
- Laurent Bateau as Vincent
- Keith Allen as David
- Ludivine Sagnier as Géraldine
- Lionel Abelanski as Georges
- Marie Denarnaud as Colette
- Eriq Ebouaney as The Club bouncer
Reception
The film was released on 12 July 2002 to 7 theatres in the United States at #46 and grossed $49,204 in the opening weekend. Its lifetime domestic grossing is $1,121,233 while $4,048,205 accounted for foreign grosses accrues for a total of $5,169,438.[3]