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Nathalie
Generally favorable reviews
Based on 11 critic reviews
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Based on 4 votes
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Movie Info
Genre(s): Drama | Foreign
Written by:
Jacques Fieschi
Anne Fontaine
François-Olivier Rousseau
Philippe Blasband (original idea)
Directed by: Anne Fontaine
Release Date:
Theatrical: April 14, 2006
DVD: May 2, 2006
Running Time: 100 minutes, Color
Origin: France / Spain
Language(s): French (with English subtitles)
Summary
RATING: Not Rated
Starring Fanny Ardant, Emmanuelle Béart, Gérard Depardieu, Wladimir Yordanoff, Judith Magre, Rodolphe Pauly, Évelyne Dandry, and Christian Aaron Boulogne
Catherine (Ardant) is an attractive woman with a great career and a seemingly solid marriage to Bernard (Depardieu), her husband of 25 years. Their lives seem to be going well until Catherine discovers that Bernard is having an affair. Realizing that she does not really know her husband or what he really wants, Catherine hires Marlene (Béart), a beautiful prostitute, to act as "Nathalie," a woman who will seduce Bernard and extract answers to the questions that are obsessing her. (Koch Lorber)
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What The Critics Said
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New York Post Kyle Smith
Similar to the recent Emmanuelle Devos drama "Gilles' Wife," but it's as cool as that one was melodramatic.
Read Full Review >Salon.com Andrew O'Hehir
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.
Read Full Review >TV Guide Maitland McDonagh
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.
Read Full Review >ReelViews James Berardinelli
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.
Read Full Review >The Globe and Mail (Toronto) Stephen Cole
A stylish, sharply observed erotic mystery.
Read Full Review >Village Voice Ed Park
Nathalie is intricate, provocative, cleanly acted, but it's never entirely convincing--and never more so than in the table-turning climax.
Read Full Review >Chicago Reader Andrea Gronvall
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.
Read Full Review >The New Republic Stanley Kauffmann
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.
Read Full Review >The New York Times Anita Gates
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.
Read Full Review >The Hollywood Reporter Kirk Honeycutt
An unconvincing psychosexual drama that tries to reconfigure the classic romantic triangle but winds up looking like a preposterous pretzel.
Read Full Review >Variety Derek Elley
An intellectual-cum-sexual teaser whose twist is apparent far too early on.
Read Full Review >What Our Users Said
The average user rating for this movie is 8.0 (out of 10) based on 4 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.
Marc K. gave it an8:
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.
