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starring: Emmanuelle Béart, Michel Serrault, Jean-Hugues Anglade, Claire Nadeau, Françoise Briondirected by: Claude Sautet
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9786304373736
Format: Color, Letterboxed, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
ISBN: 6304373732
Label: New Yorker Video
Manufacturer: New Yorker Video
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: New Yorker Video
Release Date: November 24, 1998
Running Time: 106 minutes
Sales Rank: 15165
Studio: New Yorker Video
Theatrical Release Date: June 21, 1996
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Amazon.com:
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 this film 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. A quiet and deeply satisfying film. --James McGrath
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Nelly and Monsieur Arnaud is a Flawless French Film.
Claude Sautet's greatest film was his highly acclaimed Un Coeur en Hiver ( A Heart in Winter ), for which he won the César Award for Best Director in 1993. Three years later, he won the César again for his 1995 film, Nelly et Monsieur Arnaud. Both films starred Emmanuelle Béart. Sautet died of cancer in 2000.
Much like Un Coeur en Hiver, Nelly et Monsieur Arnaud is a subtle meditation on unspoken love and loss. Béart plays Nelly, a beautiful young woman married to Jerôme (Berling), ... Read More
Rating:  - Affectionate and affable but less than meets the eye
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 ... Read More
Rating: - The eyes of Emmanuelle Beart
are featured rather prominently in this ultra sophisticated film by Claude Sautet, perhaps to the point of annoyance for some. Mlle. Beart, whom I first saw in Claude Berri's Manon of the Spring (1986), has the largest, most beautiful eyes one would ever want to see, and she is a fine actress with a smooth and subtle style. However I think that Sautet worked too exclusively with glances of nuance, raised and lowered lids, eyes widened and narrowed and such and such to further the story and to create character ... Read More
Rating:  - Film ruined by mistake in DVD transfer
I can confirm what the previous reviewer remarked, that the editors did something wrong with how they recorded subtitles on the DVD and that they are not readable on a widescreen TV on at least several types of DVD players, while the picture itself is recorded in widescreen anamorphic. The only way we could watch it with my non-French speaking wife was to set the TV to 4:3 aspect, set the DVD player as if it was pluged on a 4:3 TV and watch the movie with gray bars on the side and black bars on top and bottom. ... Read More
Rating: - Subtitles Cut off on Widescreen TV?
Can anyone confirm that the 2nd line of subtitles are cut off the bottom of the screen when played on a widescreen tv? I began watching the film on my Sony 46" Widescreen and anytime a 2nd line of subtitles appeared on the screen I could only see the top of the words barely. I tried on another DVD player and it was the same. I tried all settings, (Full, Zoom, Wide-zoom, Normal) and all 4 cut the subtitles off. I ended up watching it on my 4X3 Sony 36" TV and I could read the subtitles. Anyway, good movie, ... Read More
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