LE DIVORCE

Set in Paris, LE DIVORCE is an alluring and elegant comedy of love anddivorce French-style. Isabel Walker, a young, not-so-innocent, Americanabroad, arrives in Paris to find that her sister's French husband ('thefrog prince') has just walked out. While Isabel embarks on her ownsentimental education - seduced by gourmet food, antiques, existentialismand an older man - her sister's marriage disintergrates into bitterFranco-American wrangles over money, titles and a mysterious painting.With a sharp tongue and an ironic eye for the foibles of the Parisianbourgeoisie, the French art world and American ex-patriots, Isabel is acollector of experience, even those she can't control. Comedy veerssuddenly close to tragedy as passionate jealousy, self-interest andartistic intrigue interweave.