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Nathalie... (DVD) (*)

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Screened, competed or awarded at:
European Film Awards
Toronto International Film Festival

Language Selections:
English ( Subtitles )
French ( Dolby Digital 5.1 )

Product Origin/Format:
Australia ( PAL/Region 0 )

Running Time:
104 min + 30 min extras

Aspect Ratio:
Anamorphic Widescreen (1.85:1)

Special Features:
Biographies
Featurette
Interactive Menu
Photo Gallery
Scene Access
Trailer(s)

Movie filmed in 2003 and produced in:
France ( France, Benelux )
Spain ( Spain, Portugal )

Directed By:
Anne Fontaine

Written By:
Philippe Blasband (original idea)
Jacques Fieschi

Actors:
Fanny Ardant ..... Catherine
Emmanuelle Beart ..... Nathalie/Marlène
Gerard Depardieu ..... Bernard
Wladimir Yordanoff ..... François
Judith Magre ..... La mère de Catherine
Rodolphe Pauly ..... Le fils
Évelyne Dandry ..... La patronne du bar
Christian Aaron Boulogne ..... L'homme d'un soir (as Ari Päffgen)
Aurore Auteuil ..... La patiente de Catherine
Idit Cebula ..... Ghislaine
Sasha Rucavina ..... Marianne (as Sacha Rukavina)
Macha Polikarpova ..... Ingrid
Marie Adam ..... La secrétaire médicale
Sophie Séfériadès ..... Une autre patiente
Serge Boutleroff ..... L'agent immobilier (as Serge Onteniente-Boutleroff)

Synopsis:

Nathalie is the name a Parisian prostitute assumes for a special mission or "private investigation." She is engaged for this unusual, and secretive task by a professional, upper middle class wife who fears her husband is unfaithful to her. Nathalie has to seduce the clueless husband and regularly report all details of her relationship with him, including his most intimate sexual preferences in bed. Nathalie is stunning, charming and cunning. Can Nathalie and her reports to the mistrustful wife be trusted? Is the middle aged husband indeed unfaithful?

Awash in juicy, erotic melodrama but bearing one all-too-obvious plot twist, Anne Fontaine's psychological drama nonetheless provides a glimpse of two generations of French actresses at the top of their game. To think of Nathalie... as 8 Women divided by four would be somewhat misleading: Though it stars two of the duplicitous principals from François Ozon's campy 2002 mystery, the tone of this pairing is deathly serious, which makes the script's erotic element all the more believable, but hamstrings its so-what conclusion even more than it would otherwise have been. Writer Philippe Blasband keeps his plot as simple as that of his breakthrough feature, the teasing, enigmatic Une Liason Pornographique, but the questions left unanswered in that film are mostly spelled out here; and although the dynamic between Fanny Ardant and Emmanuelle Béart is never less than fascinating, it does grow repetitive and increasingly less mysterious as Nathalie.

This product was added to our catalog on Tuesday 15 November, 2005.

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