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Nelly (Emmanuelle Beart) leaves her lazy, unemployed husband to work for retired judge Mr Arnaud, forty years her senior, after he offers to clear her bills for her. While she types his memoirs the two develop a close friendship, but Arnaud becomes jealous when Nelly begins dating his good-looking young publisher.
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By Michael Lavocah
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Nelly & Mr Arnaud never intend to have a physical relationship, and so, almost by accident, a relationship grows up between them which is full of respect. The film charts the growth of their intimacy as they meet the shocks of life. This is a subtle, nuanced film, full of humanity, which depicts powerful human emotions with great delicacy. French filmmaking at its best.
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By schumann_bg
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Nelly and Mr Arnaud is most remarkable for the excellent performance by Michel Serrault, who catches so many nuances in his character, you feel every line has been fully internalised and then said spontaneously. He is well cast opposite Emmanuelle Beart, whose exquisiteness also finds a number of registers and who is really quite pushed by the screenplay in a subtle way. Claude Sautet can always be relied upon to turn out a well-upholstered, intelligent film about relationships, but this must be one of the best, showing great restraint while hinting at considerabe emotional depth and upheaval. He does seem to be a barometer of life in Paris in the nineties, and this is certainly one of the better films of that decade, not just from France. The colours tend towards muted, beige tones, while the film glides though scenes that seem random but all enlarge the picture of these two lives with a deft touch. It's definitely a sophisticated viewing experience, softer than his previous Un Coeur En Hiver, and well worth seeing for anyone who has enjoyed Serrault in the Cage Aux Folles films - it's quite a surprise to see such a change, when the face is more or less the same!
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Nelly et Monsieur Arnaud is a chamber piece that never really goes anywhere. It's not so much that it's bad, more that it's slightly flat compared to Claude Sautet's earlier films like Les Choses de la Vie and Cesar et Rosalie despite an amusing cameo by Michel Lonsdale, appearing like a self-satisfied but slightly dense slug from time to time. It's a film that probably meant more to Sautet than his audience (Michel Serrault based his performance on the director, as witnessed by the photos of the two on the set in identical outfits and haircuts). To me it was little more than a time-passer with few insights, although the sight of Emmanuelle Beart's hopelessly inept attempts at faking being an accomplished typist offered some unintentional amusement: obviously this is one actress who never worked as a secretary while resting.
The French DVD offers a good widescreen transfer with removeable English subtitles. The only extras are a stills gallery and the French trailer.
The French DVD offers a good widescreen transfer with removeable English subtitles. The only extras are a stills gallery and the French trailer.
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