Nathalie (film)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Nathalie |
| Original title | Nathalie ... |
| Country of production | France , Spain |
| original language | French |
| Publishing year | 2003 |
| length | 106 minutes |
| Age rating |
FSK 16 JMK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Anne Fontaine |
| script |
Philippe Blasband , Jacques Fieschi , François-Olivier Rousseau , Anne Fontaine |
| production |
Alain Sarde , Christine Gozlan |
| music | Michael Nyman |
| camera | Jean-Marc Fabre |
| cut | Emmanuelle Castro |
| occupation | |
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Nathalie , aka Nathalie - Who do you love tonight? (Original title: Nathalie… ), is an erotic film drama by Anne Fontaine from 2003, which was a Spanish - French co-production. Fanny Ardant , Emmanuelle Béart and Gérard Depardieu can be seen in the leading roles .
action
The Parisian gynecologist Catherine is a birthday party for her husband Bernard. However, he cannot come because he missed his flight. The next morning, Catherine discovers a voice message on his cell phone. It turns out that Bernard is having an affair with another woman. The following evening, Catherine confronts him. He also admits other infidelities, but assures her that they would have meant nothing to him. Since they have not slept together for a long time and Catherine is suffering from having drifted apart with him, she urges to find out what excites Bernard about his affairs. She goes to a nightclub and instructs the prostitute Marlène to seduce Bernard under the name "Nathalie". When the two women meet again in a bar, Marlène reports in detail about her meeting with Bernard. At first it is strange for Catherine when Marlène tells her that she slept with Bernard. Because of her curiosity, Catherine wants to know all the details.
The two women meet regularly from now on. Marlène's detailed descriptions of her intimate encounters with Bernard arouse more and more interest from Catherine. When Bernard has to travel for business reasons, Catherine has an affair with a waiter and then tells Marlène. Gradually a friendly bond develops between the women. Catherine takes Marlène, who is also training to be a beautician, to her mother's home and lets her spend the night there in her former room. On another occasion, Marlène tells that Bernard wanted to leave Catherine to live with her. However, Catherine refuses to admit it and realizes that she does not want to give up her marriage.
When Marlène meets the couple, it turns out that Bernard and the girl don't know each other at all. Catherine visits Marlène one last time. She confesses that she made up all of her experiences with Bernard, as it was the unique opportunity for her not to have to go to bed with a man for money. Since Catherine had become like a mother and friend at the same time to her, she also feared that she would never see Catherine again if she had told her the truth. Then Catherine and Bernard find each other again.
background
Vanessa Paradis was originally supposed to play the title role, but she had to cancel due to pregnancy. Emmanuelle Béart then stood in for them. For Fanny Ardant and Gérard Depardieu it was the fourth time that they played lovers in front of the film camera after making films together like The Woman Next Door (1981) or The Resurrection of Colonel Chabert (1994).
The shooting took place in Paris. On September 11, 2003, the film premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival . In Germany it was released on August 5, 2004. The worldwide box office income was $ 5.2 million. In 2005 the erotic drama was released on DVD. In 2009 it was remade by Atom Egoyan under the title Chloe with Liam Neeson , Julianne Moore and Amanda Seyfried .
Reviews
“The married drama, staged in a calm style, explores the state of bourgeois intimacy and confronts the viewer with a gray area of feelings,” said the lexicon of international films . Christina Tilmann from Tagesspiegel saw the essence of the film in the comparison of the two different female roles. "Blonde and brunette, young and old, casual and injured: as opposed to the two they are, so magically they attract each other, and the film thrives on the tension, the competition - and perhaps relies a little too much on it."
Claudia Lenssen from the taz described the film as a “bizarre mixture of audio play and curiosity”. Emmanuelle Béart appears "with a dejected look, raised lips and always choreographed body tension" like an "artificial figure" and tries to do her best and "with deadly seriousness". Fanny Ardant, on the other hand, “with her talents and charisma” makes it easier to “contour Cathérine's ambivalence with a little comedy”.
For Cinema , Nathalie was an "elegantly staged erotic icon". The sense of Catherine's approach and also “what Madame Fontaine wants to aim with her verbal erotic film” cannot be clearly deciphered. The conclusion was: "Strong actresses in an erotic drama that owes a deeper meaning." The TV magazine Prisma came to a similar judgment. It is about “an erotic ensemble film”, which in the end is only carried “by the play of the top-class actors (especially Emmanuelle Béart)”. The plot, on the other hand, "quickly slips into irrelevance" and is "astonishingly superficial" until the end.
Awards
Fanny Ardant and Emmanuelle Béart each received a nomination for the Audience Award of the European Film Award for Best Actress . However, they were defeated by Penélope Cruz in Don't Move .
German version
The German dubbed version was created at Film- & Fernseh-Synchron in Munich . Heike Kospach was responsible for the dialogue book , while Marina Köhler directed the dialogue .
| role | actor | Voice actor |
|---|---|---|
| Catherine | Fanny Ardant | Viktoria Brams |
| Nathalie / Marlène | Emmanuelle Béart | Susanne von Medvey |
| Bernard | Gérard Depardieu | Manfred Lehmann |
Web links
- Nathalie in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Nathalie at Rotten Tomatoes (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ Certificate of release for Nathalie . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , July 2004 (PDF; test number: 98 581 K).
- ↑ Age rating for Nathalie . Youth Media Commission .
- ↑ cf. boxofficemojo.com
- ↑ Nathalie. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed February 19, 2020 .
- ↑ Christina Tilmann: The bought bride . In: Der Tagesspiegel , August 4, 2004.
- ↑ Claudia Lenssen: On love and not death . In: the daily newspaper , August 5, 2004.
- ↑ cf. cinema.de
- ↑ cf. prisma.de
- ↑ Nathalie. In: synchronkartei.de. German dubbing index , accessed on March 1, 2020 .