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Jealous

Jalouse

2017

David Foenkinos, Stéphane Foenkinos

Karin Viard, Marie-Julie Baup, Thibault de Montalembert, Anaïs Demoustier ...

5.5

725

Comedy Almost overnight, Nathalie Pêcheux, a divorced French teacher, changes from a loving mother into a jealous monster. Her first target is her stunning 18-year-old daughter Mathilde, a ballet dancer, but her field of attack soon extends to her friends, colleagues, and even her neighbors. A portrayal of a woman's radical and unexpected shift of character that oscillates between black comedy and psychological thriller.

	Media	Author	Review
		Jordan Mintzer The Hollywood Reporter	"[It] seems entirely attuned to Viard’s specific talents (...) Viard is truly at her best when she’s doing some very bad things"
		Muriel Del Don Cineuropa	"It’s exactly the film’s apparent lightness and superficiality that become its strength (...) The filmmakers avoid clichés that are too often attached to 'mature' women with panache"
		Leslie Felperin The Guardian	"There is something tone deaf about the film’s failure to see anything wrong with an essentially patriarchal society (...) [Viard] has incisive comic timing and also shows us a likable fragility (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"

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