From Food & Wine,
June, 2003

The Movie of LE DIVORCE

For a literary adaptation, the film version of Diane Johnson's Le Divorce is downright sexy. Kate Hudson stars, with Naomi Watts, Glenn Close, Stockard Channing, Sam Waterson and Leslie Caron in supporting roles. Hudson plays an American having an affair with a Frenchman, played by Thierry Lhermitte (above, with Hudson); for them, the dining room is almost as erotically charged as the bedroom. "I felt especially guilty about the pleasure and interest I took in the restaurants we went to", Hudson’s character says, calling her fascination "perhaps a perversion"

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