Nathalie...
- 2003
- 1h 40m
IMDb RATING
6.3/10
5.1K
YOUR RATING
A rich woman hires an elite prostitute in order to verify her husband's faithfulness. Before long the experiment gets out of control.A rich woman hires an elite prostitute in order to verify her husband's faithfulness. Before long the experiment gets out of control.A rich woman hires an elite prostitute in order to verify her husband's faithfulness. Before long the experiment gets out of control.
- Awards
- 2 nominations
Christian Päffgen
- L'homme d'un soir
- (as Ari Päffgen)
Sasha Rucavina
- Marianne
- (as Sacha Rukavina)
Serge Onteniente
- L'agent immobilier
- (as Serge Onteniente-Boutleroff)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaNathalie Ribout, the initial script by Philippe Blasband, was published as a play in 2003 and made it to the stage in Paris in 2009 at the Théâtre Marigny with Virginie Efira as Nathalie and Maruschka Detmers as the wife. The play isn't considered to be an adaptation of the film, but more of a variation on the same idea, as Blasband's original screenplay was significantly reworked for the film, with the couple in Blasband's script being separated and in the midst of divorce proceedings, in addition to being named Sonia and Jean-Luc instead of Catherine and Bernard.
- Quotes
Un client de Marlène: [Sitting with Nathalie/Marlene, at the bar where she works] Can I ask you a question? Are you shaved?
- ConnectionsFeatured in Legends of World Cinema: Fanny Ardant
- SoundtracksTrois Petites Notes de Musique
Music by Georges Delerue
Lyrics by Henri Colpi
Performed by Judith Magre
Featured review
NATHALIE... (Anne Fontaine, 2003) **1/2
Despite good work from the three main leads (particularly the women), this is yet another self-satisfied would-be mature study of sexual mores in modern bourgeois French society. A man (Gerard Depardieu) who admits to his wife (Fanny Ardant) of having an occasional fling, is tricked by the latter in falling for a luscious stripper (an overage but still stunning Emmanuelle Beart) posing as the fictitious titular character. The ruse seems to work, with Ardant getting the sleazy lowdown from Beart soon after her every clandestine meeting with Depardieu. But everything is not as it seems...
Starting from the far-fetched premise that a woman would go to all that trouble to win her straying husband back, why should she then still act so coldly to him in private? Actually, I was expecting Ardant to adopt Beart's tricks-of-the-trade in her nightly dealings with Depardieu and not going out and having her own little flings. Anyway, the film is too episodically structured to be anything but a series of tale-telling (in the frankest possible manner, as can be expected from the French) of illicit rendezvous and one grows impatient with the film once he realizes that it's going nowhere very slowly.
As I said, however, the acting is top-notch and Michael Nyman's score is typically arresting. Being that the film is directed by a woman, I suppose that some sort of pro-feminist statement is being made here but, personally, I was far more intrigued by the tantalizing promise (on the DVD sleeve) of watching Beart's routines as a stripper - of which there were far too few (and far too chaste to boot for my liking), alas...
Starting from the far-fetched premise that a woman would go to all that trouble to win her straying husband back, why should she then still act so coldly to him in private? Actually, I was expecting Ardant to adopt Beart's tricks-of-the-trade in her nightly dealings with Depardieu and not going out and having her own little flings. Anyway, the film is too episodically structured to be anything but a series of tale-telling (in the frankest possible manner, as can be expected from the French) of illicit rendezvous and one grows impatient with the film once he realizes that it's going nowhere very slowly.
As I said, however, the acting is top-notch and Michael Nyman's score is typically arresting. Being that the film is directed by a woman, I suppose that some sort of pro-feminist statement is being made here but, personally, I was far more intrigued by the tantalizing promise (on the DVD sleeve) of watching Beart's routines as a stripper - of which there were far too few (and far too chaste to boot for my liking), alas...
- Bunuel1976
- Sep 10, 2006
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Box office
- Budget
- €7,350,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $31,008
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $10,351
- Apr 16, 2006
- Gross worldwide
- $5,254,422
- Runtime1 hour 40 minutes
- Color
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 2.35 : 1
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