Synopsis
Is love compatible with coupledom? And what of freedom and fidelity? These are some of the questions facing two married men.
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Cast
- Charlotte GainsbourgGabrielle
- Yvan AttalVincent
- Alain ChabatGeorges
- Alain CohenFred
- Emmanuelle SeignerNathalie
- Anouk Aiméela mère de Vincent
- Claude Berrile père de Vincent
- Aurore Clémentla mère de la maîtresse de Vincent
- Carolina GynningChloe
- Ben AttalJoseph
Recommendations
- 88
New York Daily News
Gives moviegoers a funny, observant, evanescent approach to the mysteries of human desire. - 80
Salon
Happily Ever After is an exhilarating, joyous picture, but it's sometimes terrifying, too. It offers a vision of marriage as an adventure we embark on together, alone. If you didn't cry, you'd laugh. - 70
The New York Times
Nobody does adultery in movies with more style and zest than the French, especially when the mode is frivolous. And anyone who watches Happily Ever After can identify with the grass-is-always-greener daydreams that haunt its characters. - 70
The New Republic
The most important aspect of the stories about all five characters is the way they are told. Attal and his editor Jennifer Augé have found an attractive playful style: they never let the stories rest, almost juggling them, and keep them gamboling before us. - 70
Los Angeles Times
If this strikes some as some kind of gallingly blasé, ostentatious Parisian sophistication, it's far from it. - 63
New York Post
You need a scorecard to keep track of who's bedding whom in Happily Ever After, a tres French take on sex and love, in that order. - 50
TV Guide Magazine
Attal's characters are one-note position statements, which forces the unsubtle soundtrack - mostly American pop songs that range from the Velvet Underground's "Sunday Morning" to Radiohead's "Creep" - to bear the brunt of clarifying their thoughts and feelings. Without it, you'd be entirely in the dark. - 40
Variety
Repetitive and needlessly prolonged tale does build to an inspired final scene, but it's too little, too late.
