Nathalie... (2003)
Country: FR/SP
Technical: col/2.35:1 105m
Director: Anne Fontaine
Cast: Fanny Ardant, Emmanuelle Béart, Gérard Depardieu
Synopsis:
A well-to-do gynaecologist is made justly suspicious of her jet-setting husband's fidelity and doubtful of the state of her marriage; in the face of his open admission of susceptibility she inexplicably employs an attractive sex club hostess to test his mettle and report back to her.
Review:
A promising line-up in a mess of a movie. Depardieu is wasted in a fill-in role as the husband more talked-about than seen; the motivation of the Ardant character is so obscure as to make her on-screen torment all too plausibly one of professional confusion; and when, at the end, we finally get a possible reason for her tossing money into the hands of this prostitute in exchange for fictitiously salacious feedback, and for the prostitute's frank admission of as much, i.e. mutual attraction, the nettle is grasped and then promptly cast aside in favour of a by now irrelevant marital reunion. In sum, a coy Gallic Indecent Proposal without the courage of its raunchy dialogue.
Country: FR/SP
Technical: col/2.35:1 105m
Director: Anne Fontaine
Cast: Fanny Ardant, Emmanuelle Béart, Gérard Depardieu
Synopsis:
A well-to-do gynaecologist is made justly suspicious of her jet-setting husband's fidelity and doubtful of the state of her marriage; in the face of his open admission of susceptibility she inexplicably employs an attractive sex club hostess to test his mettle and report back to her.
Review:
A promising line-up in a mess of a movie. Depardieu is wasted in a fill-in role as the husband more talked-about than seen; the motivation of the Ardant character is so obscure as to make her on-screen torment all too plausibly one of professional confusion; and when, at the end, we finally get a possible reason for her tossing money into the hands of this prostitute in exchange for fictitiously salacious feedback, and for the prostitute's frank admission of as much, i.e. mutual attraction, the nettle is grasped and then promptly cast aside in favour of a by now irrelevant marital reunion. In sum, a coy Gallic Indecent Proposal without the courage of its raunchy dialogue.
Country: FR/SP
Technical: col/2.35:1 105m
Director: Anne Fontaine
Cast: Fanny Ardant, Emmanuelle Béart, Gérard Depardieu
Synopsis:
A well-to-do gynaecologist is made justly suspicious of her jet-setting husband's fidelity and doubtful of the state of her marriage; in the face of his open admission of susceptibility she inexplicably employs an attractive sex club hostess to test his mettle and report back to her.
Review:
A promising line-up in a mess of a movie. Depardieu is wasted in a fill-in role as the husband more talked-about than seen; the motivation of the Ardant character is so obscure as to make her on-screen torment all too plausibly one of professional confusion; and when, at the end, we finally get a possible reason for her tossing money into the hands of this prostitute in exchange for fictitiously salacious feedback, and for the prostitute's frank admission of as much, i.e. mutual attraction, the nettle is grasped and then promptly cast aside in favour of a by now irrelevant marital reunion. In sum, a coy Gallic Indecent Proposal without the courage of its raunchy dialogue.