Had I not been watching LE DIVORCE with my wife, who seemed marginally entertained, I would likely have walked out.As the film opens, American Isabel Walker (Kate Hudson) is passing through Immigration at Charles DeGaulle Airport in Paris. She's in town to stay with her newly pregnant sister, Roxeanne (Naomi Watts), who's married to Frenchman Charles-Henri de Persand (Melvil Poupaud). Unfortunately, Isabel literally arrives at her sister's residence just as Charles is leaving his wife for another woman. He departs in the same cab that deposits his sister-in-law on the doorstep.As it turns out, Charles is having an affair with Magda, a married Russian girl. Charles wants a divorce; Roxeanne doesn't. Charles comes across as a real piece of bandini. Rather than provide her sister with support, or maybe even just scratch Charles's eyes out, Isabel starts her own affair with fifty-something Edgar (Thierry Lhermitte), an uncle to Charles on his mother's side.The apparent point of this film is to spotlight the differing French and American cultural attitudes towards marriage, sex, divorce, and extra-marital affairs. (Well, duh!) Is it a comedy or a drama? It's hard to tell, and doesn't succeed at either because, except for Roxeanne (with whom an American audience will perhaps strongly sympathize), there are no engaging characters whatsoever. Moreover, several are absolutely useless to the storyline, e.g. an expatriate American writer played by Glenn Close, her scruffy house painter, Magda's jarringly unpleasant and mentally disturbed husband (Matthew Modine), and the Walker parents (Stockard Channing and Sam Waterston). There's also a superfluous subplot involving an old painting, perhaps by a master, perhaps not, inherited by the Walkers, taken to Paris by Roxeanne, and now being fought over by the Walker and de Persand families, the former wishing to auction it off. Finally, a sequence at the very end of a red handbag floating over the rooftops of the city must be one of the stupidest symbolisms, if that's what it was, ever put on film.The absolute sole reason I gave two stars to this waste of my time is that it was filmed in beautiful Paris. There's a sequence involving the Eiffel Tower that, for those who haven't visited the structure, is almost as good as being there. Other than that, unless you're wondering whatever happened to Leslie Caron (who plays Charles's mother), or are a rabid fan of Kate Hudson, don't bother. LE DIVORCE is on my list of the least-deserving 2003 films I've seen.