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Nathalie
2003
Tormented by the suspicion of her husband's adultery, Catherine (Fanny Ardant), a bourgeois Parisian businesswoman, seeks the help of a beautiful but mysterious call-girl, Nathalie (Emmanuelle Beart), to uncover the truth once and for all. As she hears the intimate details of her husband's meetings with Nathalie, Catherine also .. Read more
| Starring | Emmanuelle Beart, Gerard Depardieu, Fanny Ardant |
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| Director | Anne Fontaine |
| Genres | Drama, World Cinema |
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Nathalie
Tormented by the suspicion of her husband's adultery, Catherine (Fanny Ardant), a bourgeois Parisian businesswoman, seeks the help of a beautiful but mysterious call-girl, Nathalie (Emmanuelle Beart), to uncover the truth once and for all. As she hears the intimate details of her husband's meetings with Nathalie, Catherine also begins to learn more about herself and her own desires. However, as she loses control over Nathalie's actions she begins to question who is deceiving whom.
| Starring | Emmanuelle Beart, Gerard Depardieu, Fanny Ardant |
|---|---|
| Director | Anne Fontaine |
| Studio | MOMENTUM PICTURES |
| Run time | DVD: 1 hr 41 mins |
| Certificate | |
| Collections | 100 Feisty Females |
| Genres | Drama, World Cinema |
| Language | DVD: French |
| Subtitles | DVD: English |
| Released | DVD: 31 Jan 2005 Production year: 2003 |
| Format | DVD |
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As in Comment J'ai Tué Mon Père, director Anne Fontaine here explores the damage that a misconception can do to a relationship. This is a stylish study of sexual manners in which middle-aged gynaecologist Fanny Ardant pays sex-club hostess Emmanuelle Béart to lure her errant husband (Gérard Depardieu) into an affair. Ardant is motivated by revenge for a casual fling and meets Béart after each of the encounters with her husband for an explicit recounting of events. Despite the intriguing set-up of this psychological drama, there is no palpable friction between Ardant and Béart; consequently their meetings lack the necessary sexual tension to keep them compelling. The conceit also depends on a surprise ending that might have worked in a novel, but which is glaringly apparent on screen.
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Albeit a disappointment after the tricksy psychodynamics of her last outing, How I Killed My Father,... read more on Time Out
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30 out of 34 people found this review helpful
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So solemn, so stylised, so much cigarette smoke
Mon dieux, les Français! Can they really be as stagey, as exaggerated, as camp as they’re routinely depicted (by themselves)? Hollow-cheeked collagen-lipped mascara-ed beauties who move like Lipizzaners; elegant moody women d’un certain age, a gynaecologist to boot in this case; a man considered handsome and well-built played by Depardieu -! Is there no limit to clichés? Evidently not.
This film would make a fantastic French & Saunders skit. Here’s an example from the portentous voiceover: “I lay there alone, naked in the room. I dozed, then had a drink. I was thirsty.”
If you’re in the mood for some chic and improbable tosh it may suit, otherwise there are better ways to spend an hour and a half. -
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30 out of 34 people found this review helpful
[Highly rated reviewer]
So solemn, so stylised, so much cigarette smoke
Mon dieux, les Français! Can they really be as stagey, as exaggerated, as camp as they’re routinely depicted (by themselves)? Hollow-cheeked collagen-lipped mascara-ed beauties who move like Lipizzaners; elegant moody women d’un certain age, a gynaecologist to boot in this case; a man considered handsome and well-built played by Depardieu -! Is there no limit to clichés? Evidently not.
This film would make a fantastic French & Saunders skit. Here’s an example from the portentous voiceover: “I lay there alone, naked in the room. I dozed, then had a drink. I was thirsty.”
If you’re in the mood for some chic and improbable tosh it may suit, otherwise there are better ways to spend an hour and a half. -
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