In the Name of My Daughter

R

Released May 15, 2015

2h 2m

Drama

Mystery & Thriller

List

51%

49 Reviews

Tomatometer

42%

250+ Ratings

Audience Score

In 1976 in Nice, Agnes, the daughter of the owner of the Palais de la Méditerranée, falls in love with an older lawyer.

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Critics Consensus

Perplexingly less than the sum of its dramatic real-life parts, In the Name of My Daughter doesn't do enough to support its story -- or Catherine Deneuve's performance.

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Peter Keough

Boston Globe

More disappointing than the film's inertia and amorphousness is its sacrifice of the real-world themes of class, money, corruption, and power. Unable to decide what story he wanted to tell, Tchin hedges his bets and loses everything.

Rated: 1.5/4

May 28, 2015

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Peter Rainer

Christian Science Monitor

It has its true-crime fascinations, and, until its misbegotten 30-year flash-forward to Maurice's trial, it has a silky allure of sun-kissed depravity.

Rated: B-

May 22, 2015

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Tom Long

Detroit News

'In the Name of My Daughter" is one of those French films that leave you going "huh?"

Rated: C-

May 22, 2015

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Michael J. Casey

Michael J. Cinema

A lush piece of filmmaking that is spectacular to view, but as a movie, it's a snooze.

Rated: 2/5

Sep 17, 2021

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Nicholas Bell

IONCINEMA.com

A handsomely mounted piece based on a bit of unsolved criminal intrigue, the title doesn't always work as a thriller, but maintains a rather melancholy stance as an off-kilter character piece for Deneuve and Haenel.

Rated: 2.5/5

Oct 20, 2020

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Richard Propes

TheIndependentCritic.com

Deneuve elevates the proceedings with a performance that is iconic in nature and presentation.

Rated: 3.0/4.0

Sep 11, 2020

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Serge L

The film's script lacks zest. He may be following the sequence of real events but it's hard to believe. The end is left open. We don't really know what happened. The guy also doesn't seem so friendly and his real attraction would rather come from the power he gives by using him.

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

06/08/22

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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 out of 5 stars

01/30/23

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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 out of 5 stars

01/28/23

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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 out of 5 stars

02/12/23

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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 out of 5 stars

03/31/23

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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 out of 5 stars

02/10/23

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André Téchiné

Director

Guillaume Canet

Maurice Agnelet

Catherine Deneuve

Renée Le Roux

Adèle Haenel

Agnès Le Roux

Judith Chemla

Françoise

Mauro Conte

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Synopsis

In 1976 in Nice, Agnes, the daughter of the owner of the Palais de la Méditerranée, falls in love with an older lawyer.

Director: André Téchiné
Producer: Christine De Jekel
Screenwriter: André Téchiné, Jean-Charles Le Roux, Cédric Anger
Distributor: Cohen Media Group
Rating: R (Some Language|Sexuality|Nudity)
Genre: Drama, Mystery & Thriller
Original Language: French (Canada)
Release Date (Theaters): May 15, 2015, Limited
Release Date (Streaming): Sep 22, 2016
Box Office (Gross USA): $275.0K
Runtime: 2h 2m

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