Nelly

Name: Nelly
Genre: Drama
Released: September 7, 2018
Duration: 100 min
Rating: 58
Cast: Catherine Brunet, Francis Ducharme, Jason Cavalier, Marc Béland, Marie-Claude Guérin

2018

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Cinema Libre Studio | Release Date: September 7, 2018 | Not Rated

Starring: Catherine Brunet, Francis Ducharme, Jason Cavalier, Marc Béland, Marie-Claude Guérin, Mickaël Gouin, Milya Corbeil-Gauvreau, Mylène Mackay, Simon Alain, Sylvie Drapeau

Summary: Nelly Arcan shocked the literary world with elegant phrasing and lurid details of sex work in her semi-autobiographical first novel, Putain (Whore), which became an international best-seller in 2001. A prostitute by choice, Nelly's fragmented life is laid bare in a stylish mix of make-believe and memoir, revealing a woman lost betweenNelly Arcan shocked the literary world with elegant phrasing and lurid details of sex work in her semi-autobiographical first novel, Putain (Whore), which became an international best-seller in 2001. A prostitute by choice, Nelly's fragmented life is laid bare in a stylish mix of make-believe and memoir, revealing a woman lost between irreconcilable identities: the neurotic writer, the vulnerable lover, the call girl and the star. Despite literary success, the French Canadian's remarkable life ended in tragedy.… Expand

Director: Anne Émond

Genre(s): Drama

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 100 min

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Glenn Kenny

Sep 6, 2018

The character Ms. Émond and Ms. Mackay create is not likable, but is puzzling in an engrossing way. I am not sufficiently familiar with Ms. Fortier’s work to weigh in on how accurately this film represents it, but as an act of complex homage, “Nelly” gets to a few interesting places. Read full review

Frank Scheck

Sep 8, 2018

Nelly delivers a deliberately fragmentary, time-shifting portrait that is as provocative as it is sometimes frustrating. What anchors the proceedings is the lead performance of Mylene Mackay, whose star will definitely be on the rise after this sexy, galvanizing turn. Read full review

Budd Wilkins

Sep 6, 2018

While the film’s vision of Nelly Arcan may ultimately remain just slightly out of focus (a notion that’s duly literalized in its final shots), Mylène Mackay’s powerhouse turn seems certain to resonate. Read full review

Jessica Kiang

Sep 6, 2018

Émond obviously has deep feeling for Arcan, and “Nelly” is a sincere and respectful attempt to do at least partial, fragmentary justice to a troubled woman able to self-create any persona except a happy one, but it can’t put her back together again. Read full review

Kevin Crust

Sep 13, 2018

Arcan wrote prolifically about beauty and female identity in essays and articles, as well as her books, and Émond uses those words extensively in the film. But what may have been profound and poetic on the page feels redundant and banal on screen. It’s a sad tale that never manifests much more than that singular emotion. Read full review

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