Le divorce

Resource Information

The work Le divorce represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Chelmsford Public Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Moving Image, Visual Materials.

Label

Le divorce

Statement of responsibility

Fox Searchlight Pictures presents a Merchant Ivory/Radar Picture production ; producers, Michael Schiffer, Ismail Merchant ; screenplay by Ruth Prawer Jhabrala & James Ivory ; directed by James Ivory

Contributor

• Fox Searchlight Pictures
• Merchant Ivory Productions
• Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, Inc
• Allen, John David
• Barr, Jean-Marc, 1960-
• Bénard, Frédéric
• Caron, Leslie
• Channing, Stockard
• Close, Glenn, 1947-
• Duris, Romain, 1974-
• Fry, Stephen, 1957-
• Hudson, Kate, 1979-
• Ivory, James
• Jhabvala, Ruth Prawer, 1927-2013
• Johnson, Diane, 1934-
• Labarthe, Samuel
• Lennon, Thomas F., (Thomas Furneaux)
• Lhermitte, Thierry
• Lhomme, Pierre
• Merchant, Ismail
• Radar Pictures (Firm)
• Ramsey, Carol
• Robbins, Richard
• Schiffer, Michael, 1948-
• Watts, Naomi, 1968-

Subject

• Comedy films
• Feature films
• Man-woman relationships -- France | Paris -- Drama
• Sisters -- Drama
• Video recordings for the hearing impaired
• Videodiscs

Genre

• Comedy films
• Drama
• Feature films
• Video recordings for the hearing impaired

Language

• eng
• fre
• spa
• eng
• fre
• spa
• eng
• eng

Summary

When Isabel Walker receives word that her pregnant stepsister Roxy has been left by her philandering French husband, artist Charles-Henri de Persand, Isabel travels to Paris to offer her help and moral support. Together, the two young women hit the party scene, living it up with the locals and American expatriates. Eventually, Isabel unexpectedly begins an affair with a septuagenarian Frenchman

Cataloging source

TEFMT

Characteristic

videorecording

Credits note

Director of photography, Pierre Lhomme ; editor, John David Allen ; music, Richard Robbins ; costume designer, Carol Ramsey ; production designer, Frédéric Bénard

Dewey number

791.43/72

Intended audience

MPAA rating: PG-13; for mature thematic elements and sexual content

Language note

English and French dialogue, dubbed Spanish dialogue, English, French or Spanish subtitles; closed-captioned

PerformerNote

Kate Hudson, Naomi Watts, Jean-Marc Barr, Leslie Caron, Stockard Channing, Glenn Close, Romain Duris, Stephen Fry, Samuel Labarthe, Thomas Lennon, Thierry Lhermitte

Runtime

117

Target audience

general

Technique

live action