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Nelly and Monsieur Arnaud [DVD] [1995] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC]
 
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Nelly and Monsieur Arnaud [DVD] [1995] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC]

DVD ~ Emmanuelle Béart
4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)

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  • Actors: Emmanuelle Béart, Michel Serrault, Jean-Hugues Anglade, Claire Nadeau, Françoise Brion
  • Directors: Claude Sautet
  • Format: Colour, DVD-Video, Full Screen, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
  • Language French
  • Subtitles: English
  • Region: Region 1 (US and Canada DVD formats.)
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Classification: Unrated (US MPAA rating. See details.)
  • Studio: New Yorker Video
  • DVD Release Date: 18 Sep 2001
  • Run Time: 103 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • ASIN: B00005NFY4
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 103,717 in DVD (See Bestsellers in DVD)

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Nelly (Emmanuelle Béart), a young married woman disillusioned with life and her self-unemployed husband, meets Monsieur Arnaud (Michel Serrault), an older, retired judge and businessman, through a mutual friend. The two begin a subtle, undefined relationship that leaves them in the end changed a little more profoundly than either expected. Monsieur Arnaud offers Nelly a considerable sum of money to pay her debts, no strings attached. Along with the money she accepts a job assisting Arnaud in writing his memoirs. As the writing progresses, Nelly comes to know the morally ambiguous past of her employer, and Arnaud contends with awakened feelings of longing. It ends abruptly when Arnaud and his ex-wife decide to tour the world on their way to Seattle, where he will see his estranged son. The French seem to have a talent for ambiguity and subtlety that Nelly and Monsieur Arnaud shows off at its best. The relationship between the young woman and the older man is wonderfully intriguing in the way it plays out and changes each of them, and even more wonderful in that they never wind up in bed together. Béart and Serrault give flawless, nuanced performances as two people caught in each other's longing. This is a quiet and deeply satisfying film. --James McGrath

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4.0 out of 5 stars My kind of film., 12 Oct 2000
This review is from: Nelly And Mr Arnaud [VHS] [1995] (VHS Tape)
This film takes place against the backdrop of central Paris, always a plus in my book. . Michel Serrault plays Pierre Arnaud, a charming older man, a retired judge, who is well beyond his prime. At a pavement cafe, he is introduced, by a mutual friend, to Nelly, (Emmanuelle Beart) a lovely young woman, and is immediately attracted to her, as any man of any age would be. Within minutes she is confiding in him and he is offering her money to pay off her three month's rent arrears. He then offers to employ her to assist him in writing his memoirs . She accepts both offers and in no time they have set up a close working relationship, which becomes, as time goes by, increasingly pleasurable for both of them. However, he becomes tormented by his love for her whilst finding himself, because of the discrepancy in their ages, unable to do anything about it. .....

It has an inconclusive, poignant ending typical of so many Frenchfilms.

If you like the intimacy and subtlety of French films thenyou will like this one. But it is a film to like and not raveabout. It is a very gentle film - perhaps too much so. As some otherreviewer has said, Emmanuelle Beart is very passive; she certainlylacks vivacity. But that is probably a trait that some will like. Ido.

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