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69 out of 100

Generally favorable reviews - based on 11 Critics

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 9 out of 11
  2. Mixed: 2 out of 11
  3. Negative: 0 out of 11
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  1. New York Post
    Reviewed by: Kyle Smith
    88
    Similar to the recent Emmanuelle Devos drama "Gilles' Wife," but it's as cool as that one was melodramatic.
  2. Salon.com
    Reviewed by: Andrew O'Hehir
    80
    Nathalie becomes a complicated three-handed game, far more concerned with the narcissistic, pornographic and mutually manipulative relationship between Catherine and Nathalie than with the latter's purported affair with Bernard. If you live in New York, run, don't walk to see this on the big screen, because it won't be there long.
  3. TV Guide
    Reviewed by: Maitland McDonagh
    75
    In different hands and different lands, the same story could easily have been a pretentious bit of "Red Shoe Diaries" piffle. But exceptional performances and the oh-so-Frenchness of the complications instead produce an erotic tale that plays like the best gossipy story you ever heard about people you thought you knew.
  4. ReelViews
    Reviewed by: James Berardinelli
    75
    So what keeps the movie from being boring? Nathalie... is like lewd Eric Rohmer - that is to say that what the characters have to say is INTERESTING.
  5. The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
    Reviewed by: Stephen Cole
    75
    A stylish, sharply observed erotic mystery.
  6. Village Voice
    Reviewed by: Ed Park
    70
    Nathalie is intricate, provocative, cleanly acted, but it's never entirely convincing--and never more so than in the table-turning climax.
  7. The New York Times
    Reviewed by: Anita Gates
    70
    Anne Fontaine's seductive film Nathalie is mostly about French star power and sex, so it's somewhat surprising that it is also subtle and intriguing.
  8. The New Republic
    Reviewed by: Stanley Kauffmann
    70
    Whatever the plot, it is soothing to be in the company of Fanny Ardant, who plays Catherine and whose twenty-five-year career is dotted with small treasures.
  9. Chicago Reader
    Reviewed by: Andrea Gronvall
    70
    Depardieu, a great actor who in recent years has delivered several overblown performances, is here measured and naturalistic, a sympathetic match for Ardant's icy obsessive, and Beart is suitably mysterious as a spy in the house of love.
  10. The Hollywood Reporter
    Reviewed by: Kirk Honeycutt
    50
    An unconvincing psychosexual drama that tries to reconfigure the classic romantic triangle but winds up looking like a preposterous pretzel.
  11. Variety
    Reviewed by: Derek Elley
    50
    An intellectual-cum-sexual teaser whose twist is apparent far too early on.
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8.0 out of 10

Generally favorable reviews- based on 4 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 1 out of 1
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 1
  3. Negative: 0 out of 1
  1. MarcK.
    8
    Very interesting, and very sexy. Emmanuelle Beart is great in the lead role. Fanny Ardant also has a strong performance. Gerard Depardieu has the most famous name, but is barely in the picture. His role could have been played by just about anyone.… Full Review »
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