Nadine (2007) Reviews

• unique film

  beroski2008-03-17

  This film is unique in the sense that it is completely authentic. It shows the 'verelendung' of a modern woman, portrayed by 3 actresses, to enhance te sense of verfremdung as in some works of Weil. It impresses with the rich and metaphorical visuals and quotations to other films such as Antonioni's L'aventura. It plays with storytelling in a way that you realize that sometimes the theme is more important than the actual realism of the scenes itself. It refuses to be a too plotted story and therefor plays with genres( road-movie vs psychological drama) . The story plays in a place on the border of Holland, there were one can easily cross borders, and where people soon seem to speak different languages. It shows a woman in distress because she realizes her modern, hedonist life has lead her to a lack of introspectiveness. Many will not easily see the innovative quality of this film, but this is gonna be a classic!

• wonderful story

  nolamaria762012-01-13

  I don't understand that this movie, which I could see through Mubi, was already on TV in America. Because, yes there is a problem for modern women in this world: We are not all SITC galls or desperate housewives. As a career-woman I recognize myself. What when you become single all of a sudden again nearing 40? The director must have understood that this theme is important, because he choose to have the woman played by three actresses. And so the theme of this movie comes clearer I realized. The music came to me too, it is quite remarkable! It is a tender story, about getting older, about obsessions, about letting go...I hope more women will see this film and share my thoughts!

• Special movie, wonderful acting/actresses, but confusing

  JanMnstr2010-01-06

  Special movie, wonderful acting/actresses, but confusing. To start with the confusion, the main character is played by three actresses. Which makes it a special movie as well. Showing the different periods in her life. The 3 actresses (and the rest of the cast) give a wonderful performance. But the facts are confusing. Are we in France. The Netherlands or Belium. Who am I looking at. Oh, I am watching the leading actress???? But fascinating nonetheless. If you get a chance. Watch it. And make up your own mind.

• Awful

  kip702007-10-31

  I saw this movie in Rotterdam, with the director and one of the actresses who played Nadine present for a Q&A after wards. I'm almost sure the people who rated this movie a '10' are friends and family of the cast and crew, or perhaps it's the cast and crew themselves. Because I don't believe any true movie lover could rate this movie at better than a 4 or 5. I gave it a 3 myself. My reasons? Almost too many to write down. For starters, I didn't like the story, and how the director worked out the story. It's about a 40 something woman who looks back at her life, after she kidnapped the baby of her ex-boyfriend. The flashbacks tell us how she came to that deed. Well, they try to tell us. Unfortunately the main character in these flashbacks is played by two totally different women. One not too attractive brunette (the youngest Nadine), another an attractive blond. The 42-year old Nadine who kidnapped the baby is played by yet another actress, attractive and dark haired this time. The director states that that is to give the story a more universal appeal. Unfortunately that didn't work for me at all. I found it very irritating to have to remind myself that we were looking at the same Nadine each time, although we were looking at totally different women. Playing with the same actors as her colleagues/friends, they stayed the same. That made it impossible for me to see the three Nadine's as one. So for me all the flashbacks didn't explain the current behavior of Nadine (the kidnapping) at all. Then there were dozens of little things that annoyed me. Here's a couple: I could go on for a while, but I don't want to spend too much time recollecting details from this lemon. Better try to forget it quickly. And why did I rate it a '3', not '1'? I sort of enjoyed the characters played by Frank Lammers (Vince) and Michel van Dousselaere (Nadine's father). Both worth a point in my rating.

• Biological clock

  tataubaby2015-12-12

  A bit like a Bunuel film, this story of Nadine who is plagued by her biological clock. The main character is played by three actresses. There is a road trip and then Nadine, a well educated, single career woman in her early forties is reminiscing about her past. As in an impulse she kidnaps the baby of her ex lover. And too late she realises she can't go back. Luckily the film doesn't drown itself in a plotted story. This film is much more a character driven story, an analysis for many single career women nowadays, to cope with the idea that they will remain childless. It is a bit like a Bertolt Brecht alike approach: The audience is invited to stay in touch with the theme, more than with the main actress. Beautiful music.