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  • 2006
  • Koch Lorber Films
  • 1 h 40 m
  • 2006
  • Koch Lorber Films
  • 1 h 40 m
Nathalie...

Summary 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 (B...

Directed By: Anne Fontaine

Written By: Jacques Fieschi, François-Olivier Rousseau, Philippe Blasband, Anne Fontaine

  • 2006
  • Koch Lorber Films
  • 1 h 40 m
  • 2006
  • Koch Lorber Films
  • 1 h 40 m

Nathalie...

Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 11 Critic Reviews
69
User Score Mixed or Average Based on 9 User Ratings
6.0
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Summary 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 (B...

Directed By: Anne Fontaine

Written By: Jacques Fieschi, François-Olivier Rousseau, Philippe Blasband, Anne Fontaine

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Metascore
Generally Favorable Based on 11 Critic Reviews
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82% Positive
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18% Mixed
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Generally Favorable Based on 11 Critic Reviews
69
82% Positive
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18% Mixed
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88
Similar to the recent Emmanuelle Devos drama "Gilles' Wife," but it's as cool as that one was melodramatic.
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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.
By James Berardinelli FULL REVIEW
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.
By Maitland McDonagh FULL REVIEW
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.
By Stanley Kauffmann FULL REVIEW
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.
By Andrea Gronvall FULL REVIEW
70
Nathalie is intricate, provocative, cleanly acted, but it's never entirely convincing--and never more so than in the table-turning climax.
By Ed Park FULL REVIEW
50
An unconvincing psychosexual drama that tries to reconfigure the classic romantic triangle but winds up looking like a preposterous pretzel.
By Kirk Honeycutt FULL REVIEW

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Mixed or Average Based on 9 User Ratings
6.0
56% Positive
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11% Mixed
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33% Negative
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56% Positive
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11% Mixed
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33% Negative
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Production Company Les Films Alain Sarde, France 2 Cinéma, DD Productions, Vértigo Films, Canal+, Studio Images 9
Release Date Apr 14, 2006
Duration 1 h 40 m
Genres
Tagline Can you ever control another person's sexuality?
Website http://www.kochlorberfilms.com/product.asp?ID=KLF-DV-3077
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Awards

European Film Awards
• 2 Nominations

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