In the Name of My Daughter

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Audience Member Lots of sound and fury from Canet, Deneuve and Haenel that ultimately lacks enough drive to hold interest to end Rated 2.5/5 Stars •  Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 01/30/23 Full Review Audience Member I thought the story was uneven and on the boring side! Catherine Deneuve was the only redeeming aspect of the entire film. I also thought the timeline was off since the mother was middle aged in the 1970s! Did not make sense! Rated 2/5 Stars •  Rated 2 out of 5 stars 01/28/23 Full Review Audience Member Between true facts and the storyâ??s drama, the film goes around vague views of mother/daughter relationship and the fall of the familiar legacy for a man, through a slow journey plagued with unnecessary details and predictable facts that could have been developed in a better way with a little more of narrative intelligence. Rated 2.5/5 Stars •  Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 02/12/23 Full Review walter m The movie starts with Agnes(Adele Haenel) returning home to the south of France after a divorce, greeted not by her mother Renee(Catherine Deneuve) at the airport but instead her aide de camp and lawyer Maurice(Guillaume Canet). What Agnes is looking for more than anything else is her inheritance while instead receiving just enough money to start her own boutique. For Renee, it comes down to loyalty on the board of the casino she owns, feeling Agnes' shares will come in handy in the upcoming power struggle Maurice is warning her about. Based on a true story and current cause celebre but not exclusively so(more on this later), "In the Name of My Daughter" seems at first like a straightforward enough movie with a couple of musical numbers thrown in for good measure. But as much as the opening statement feels like it was written by an entire law firm, the rest of the movie thankfully does not, subtly implying a solution to its central mystery that is not directly in the legal record. That's due to it not opening in the present day which would have made this the story of Renee's crusade, instead turning it into Agnes' story of getting caught between two opposing forces. Rated 3.5/5 Stars •  Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 03/31/23 Full Review Audience Member Almost didn't go with my wife after I saw low audience ratings for this movie-very wrong! Long,fascinating movie with a backdrop of the Riviera, casinos, Mafia, love story, and a trial. My wife and I loved it even with the English subittles. It was a fascinating story from start to finish. If I was richer, I'd refund the admission charge to anybody who goes to see it and doesn't enjoy it. Rated 4/5 Stars •  Rated 4 out of 5 stars 02/10/23 Full Review kevin a Surprisingly intriguing, what begins as a familal dysfuction struggle over the family business which just happens to be a casino on the French Riviera, a push pull between mother (Deneuve) and her estranged daughter (Adele Haenel) becomes a missing person drama. The trusted lawyer on the edges of the family turns out to not be trust worthy at all. It astounds how much smoking the Euros feel they need to do in a film to suggest deep thought. Overall this French film is well done and the acting is first rate. The story turn in act three is a surprise but works very well to bring all the competing interests to a close. Rated 3/5 Stars •  Rated 3 out of 5 stars 03/30/23 Full Review Read all reviews

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