Following up, and in many ways repeating, his 2001 film My Wife Is An Actress, writer-director-star Yvan Attal again proves he knows how to apply a lot of first-rate camerawork and compelling acting to material that doesn't really deserve it. He has great reserves of talent as an actor and director, but Attal the leading man and Attal the auteur should consider firing their screenwriter. Consider a remarkable moment from early in his new Happily Ever After: Charlotte Gainsbourg—Attal's real-life wife, and here, the unhappy wife of his upscale car-dealer protagonist—slips into a reverie in the middle of a Paris record store as she listens to Radiohead's "Creep." When a handsome man (Johnny Depp, in a cameo) slides next to her, she tries to hide her attraction. But the drama of the song and the intensity of the moment won't let her rest. He leaves. She hesitates, then follows, the sound of "Creep" trailing behind her, then fizzling out and blending with other music as she finds Depp, only to exchange wordless nods over the coincidence of their buying the same CD.