My Wife Is an Actress

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My Wife is an Actress
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Film poster
Directed by Yvan Attal
Written by Yvan Attal
Produced by Claude Berri
Starring Yvan Attal
Charlotte Gainsbourg
Terence Stamp
Cinematography Rémy Chevrin
Edited byJennifer Augé
Music by Brad Mehldau
Production
companies
Katharina
Renn Productions
TF1 Films Production
Distributed by Pathé
Release dates
  • 12 September 2001 (2001-09-12)(TIFF)
  • 14 November 2001 (2001-11-14)(France)
Running time
95 minutes
CountryFrance
LanguagesFrench
English
Budget$6.4 million [1]
Box office$5.2 million [2]

My Wife is an Actress (French : Ma femme est une actrice) is a 2001 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. [3]

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Reception

The film was released on 14 November 2001 in France on 238 screens and opened at number one with a gross of 7 million Francs ($1 million) for the week. [4] It went on to gross $3.4 million in France. [5] It opened on 12 July 2002 in 7 theatres in the United States and grossed $49,204 in the opening weekend and went on to gross $1,121,233. It grossed $5,169,438 worldwide. [5]

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References

  1. ↑ "Ma femme est une actrice (2001) - JPBox-Office".
  2. ↑ "My Wife is an Actress (2002) - Box Office Mojo". Archived from the original on 2017-10-26. Retrieved 2020-02-19.
  3. ↑ "Interview with Charlotte Gainsbourg and Yvan Attal - Movie Habit". www.moviehabit.com.
  4. ↑ "International Box Office". Variety . 26 November 2001. p. 10.
  5. 1 2 "My Wife is an Actress (2002) - Box Office Mojo". www.boxofficemojo.com.


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