There are some mild attempts at social commentary in Le Divorce, but the film is too lightweight to qualify as a serious drama. It's also too tastefully genteel for biting social satire and the characters aren't sufficiently well developed for gripping drama, despite some melodramatic (and contrived) plot developments. Kate Hudson doesn't manage to flesh out Isabel Walker to make her seem multi-layered or even particularly engaging, and the film doesn't make much effort to get inside her head, so the movie isn't much of a character study, either. These problems would be surmountable if the film worked as a frothy romantic comedy, but it's too dull and passionless, and neither playful nor funny enough. It's also cluttered with underwritten supporting characters, but at least this provides talented actors such as Glenn Close, Bebe Neuwirth, and Stephen Fry a chance to provide relatively memorable performances in their small roles. Other than that, however, the movie doesn't offer much.