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7/10
It's pretty good
limeberry75 October 2020
While there is a certain degree of predictability, the movie is quite enjoyable and entertaining. Karin Viard is indisputably a fantastic actress who can make anything shine - she is great here. The film deals with emotional and mental instability caused by the main character's premenopausal condition. She is jealous and resentful of anything good that happens in lives of her family members, co-workers and friends, and she sabotages the happiness of all of them and consequently alienating them . I do not know many films, if any, that deal with this rather heavy subject matter that is quite real but in such a delightful and light way. There is just the right amount of comedy and drama to make you want to know how the main character gets out of the mess she made.
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7/10
EXCELLENT MOVIE UNFAIRLY UNDERRATED
ccrc2810 September 2022
Very interesting movie from start to end. Amazing performance by Karin Viard as a quite disturbed person which behavior sometimes can be a little difficult to bear but the evilness of her character is what this film is all about.

I became a great fan of Viard after this movie and I replayed the final talking many times to see her performing that again.

You will be mouth down frozen when final credits rolls up.

I'm waiting a psychiatrist friend watch this movie to tell me what kind of sick mind act like that, I believe it is far more than only jealousy .

Now I'm going to watch more movies with Karin Viard, she's an incredible actress.
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3/10
NOT JEALOUS BUT I AM AFRAID....
MadamWarden7 February 2021
A meh movie where a middle aged woman goes nuts, is extremely bitter, acerbic and pretty much evil, then miraculously becomes normal again. In a nutshell. Not much else to it. 🙄
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2/10
Painful film about an unlikeable character
robfwalter30 March 2018
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Nathalie teaches literature in an academy and treats everyone except her students horribly. She's horrible to her ex-husband, her best friend, her daughter, her neighbours and her colleagues. They all put up with it for varying lengths of time, although it's never clear why they were friends in the first place or why she's being so horrible now. There is a GP who suggests that it's menopause, but then offers no further guidance or treatment. Nathalie herself certainly takes no responsibility for her own actions or mental health. In fact, she seems fairly indifferent to the sad path her life is taking, which was exactly how I felt.

What's baffling about this film is that the problem lies with the script. The acting is fine, the direction competent, but the character of Nathalie as it's written is appalling and there is no progression for any of the characters throughout the film. A few people in the French Film Festival audience laughed at the jokes, so maybe it appeals to some people, but this film left me absolutely cold.
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8/10
Behind The Hate Ball
writers_reign11 October 2018
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It's possible that sooner or later Karin Viard will sign up for a film and then fail to enhance it, will bring nothing to the project and by extension will fail to provoke laughter and/or tears from me. I am not, hoever, holding my breath waiting. It's true of course that I have not watched every dingle film in which Ms Viard has appeared but I have seen a good 80-85% and have never not been moved one way or the other. She's nothing if not versatile and that helps, of course. At the risk of giving the impression that she carries the film on her back let me quickly sprinkle virtually all the cast with a residue of praise. This is a case of one character alienating every one in her orbit not least her own daughter and yet still able to retain their warmth toward her. It's yet another fine movie from an industry that specialises in high quality.
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2/10
I'm not jealous about this movie
johnpierrepatrick1 March 2020
Jealousy and bitterness could have been a great topic but the topic does not make a great movie alone. Unfortunately, I did not feel involved in the future of the characters.
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8/10
Good Viewing
svader5 April 2021
I enjoyed this movie and do not think the low mark reviewers u derstood the meaning or point of it.

It's about a woman struggling with her own insecurities and facing menopause. Jealousy is the result.

I would definitely recommend. Karin Viard always worth a watch.
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8/10
John Coltrane sounds more real on vinyl
aethomson7 April 2022
It's a French movie. But not too French. You don't have to be Parisian, and know everything about existentialism and postmodernism in order to understand it. That's good - I only got up to Freud (yes, he comes into the story), and then my brain put out a sign: "Carpark Full." And the English language subtitles are nearly always legible. That's even better.

Being middle-aged ought to be cool. You've passed the exams and got through the job interviews, and now you're a well respected "professeur." Unlike a certain country that shall not be named, France doesn't leave many of its brightest teachers in a rat-race, a dissertation-publishing madhouse, in desperate search of tenure at a good college. Nathalie can afford to be elegant, urbane.

The problem with being middle-aged is that there are people who are younger. Younger people might attract your spouse, and they can look like they're smarter at work, more connected, more relevant. And your own daughter is a younger person, and her sexuality will be fresh and exciting. Nathalie can survive the divorce - it's in the French DNA to be able to handle divorce. And good news, she has a date. And the guy takes a quick glance at the daughter. It was only a couple of seconds, I was watching. But that's it! He's out! And mother yells at daughter. For "flaunting herself"?

They have psychiatrists who specialize in mother-daughter relationships? Does this have anything to do with the transition into menopause? And do you want to know what happens next? Because the film does spell out what happens. And that's good. French title: "Jalouse."
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