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The official Opening Night Film of this year's selection is a gem of intelligence, sensitivity and humour.

Paris boasts a population of 2,125,246. Of these 1,153,000 are women and 10,000 are actresses and Yvan, a young sports writer, is married to one who is very well known - Charlotte. They try to live a normal life, but her fame makes it difficult - autograph hunters interrupt their dinners, cops about to serve traffic summonses let them off with a warning and a smile when they recognise her, and impossible-to-get restaurant reservations magically appear when Charlotte makes the calls instead of Yvan. All this threatens and challenges his male ego, but Yvan is able to take her stardom in stride. Until, that is, a man at a bar asks him if he gets jealous watching his wife make love in the nude to another man on screen.

It has never seriously bothered him before, but the stranger sows the first seed of doubt in his head. When Charlotte goes to London to shoot her latest film, co-starring Terence Stamp, Yvan's questions become more and more insistent. Stamp is unattached and Charlotte, worn down by Yvan's jealousy, starts to doubt their marriage. Meanwhile, back in Paris, Yvan decides to start acting classes on his own, where he soon attracts the attention of a lively blonde.

"In My Wife is an Actress, Yvan Attal has used his own marriage to the stunning Charlotte Gainsbourg as the basis for this finely-judged, warm and intensely involving comedy about male insecurity and jealousy. It's a total delight. So luminous, so light, filmed with so much love ..." (Jean-Pierre Lavoignat - Studio).

2001 France (95 min.)

Directed by Yvan Attal
Writing Credits: Yvan Attal
Cast: Charlotte Gainsbourg, Yvan Attal, Terence Stamp, Noémie Lvovsky, Laurent Bateau
Distributed by: Pathé.