Le Divorce

Le Divorce (2003) is James Ivory's French-American comedy-drama you can watch online on iFILM. When pregnant poet Roxy (Naomi Watts) is left by her French husband, her younger sister Isabel (Kate Hudson) flies in from California to help.

Help is not quite what Isabel delivers. She drifts into an affair with an older, married diplomat — who happens to be the runaway husband's uncle — while both American sisters keep tripping over the unwritten rules of Parisian society. A calm separation swells into scandal, a feud over a family painting, and something far worse. Adapted from Diane Johnson's novel, it surrounds Hudson and Watts with Glenn Close, Stockard Channing, Leslie Caron and Thierry Lhermitte. This is late-period Ivory, lighter on its feet than his costume dramas, with a sharp eye for American bluntness meeting French polish. Stream Le Divorce (2003) online on iFILM.