So French and horny that it makes Pepe Le Pew seem as chaste as Bresson’s country priest, The Other Woman is an embarrassing and rather abject attempt by the otherwise talented Daniel Auteuil to direct a sexy rom-com for the 50-and-over set.

The actor, who plays the lead alongside Sandrine Kiberlain, Adriana Ugarte and, of course, Gerard Depardieu, has a hard time wringing a single laugh from this story of a married man lusting after his best buddy’s beautiful and significantly younger girlfriend during an extended dinner party. Mixing dreams, reality and lecherous fantasies, it’s as if Walter Mitty popped...