Nelly & Nadine

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Nelly & Nadine

Released Dec 16, 2022

1h 33m

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Biography

History

LGBTQ+

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Nelly & Nadine is the unlikely love story between two women falling in love on Christmas Eve, 1944, in the Ravensbrück concentration camp. Despite being separated in the last months of the war, Nelly and Nadine manage to later reunite and spend the rest of their life together. For many years their love story was kept a secret, even to some of their closest family. Now Nelly's grandchild, Sylvie, has decided to open Nelly and Nadine's unseen personal archives and uncover their remarkable story.

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Cath Clarke

Guardian

The film gives us a precious glimpse into LGBTQ+ life in the postwar period.

Rated: 3/5

Feb 7, 2023

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Jude Dry

indieWire

Bolstered by gorgeous archival Super 8 footage of queer life in the 1950s, “Nelly & Nadine” offers a tender romance with a surprisingly vibrant slice of queer history.

Rated: B+

Dec 19, 2022

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Elizabeth Weitzman

TheWrap

“Nelly & Nadine” isn’t just a war movie but also a touching family history, an unforgettable romance and, above all, a magnificent tribute to the power of persistence in art, life and love.

Dec 15, 2022

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Dennis Harvey

48 Hills

This portrait of two highly accomplished women is gracefully crafted, offering a poignant glimpse not only of a hidden past but a reminder of just how many remarkable life stories get buried by time and circumstance.

Jun 12, 2023

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Ayelet Dekel

Midnight East

Nelly and Nadine’s story is a magnificent romance, as thrilling as any fiction, and all the more compelling in its truth. Omnia vincit amor.

Apr 6, 2023

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Alex Billington

FirstShowing.net

It's empowering because it proves that love can defeat any and everything, and love continues to influence and empower us forever and ever. No matter how many years after it was first cultivated.

Rated: 8/10

Dec 30, 2022

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milagros b

Very good. Poignant moments captured in home movies. Well curated production of an incredibly bonding of two deep thinkers under horrendous circumstances and survival with their senses and bodies intact. Quite a tour d force

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

12/20/22

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Susan T

Magnificent and mesmerizing story.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

10/30/23

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Kefi M

Magnifique. J'ai pleuré. Beautiful and necessary story.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

10/20/23

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robin m

I'm baffled about how any filmmaker could ruin such an amazing story. This film did not pay the respect that these women deserved. Too much emphasis on the process of the granddaughter and filmmaker, with absolutely no logical sequencing or any added history of lgbtq life before WWII, life for Chinese persons in Europe in the 40's, or the further details of the heroic actions of Nelly. Great content ruined. Better to have just read entire diary without deluding the content.

Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars

08/07/23

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Jo A

Deeply moving. But so many unanswered questions!

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

06/19/23

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Sarah S

Nelly & Nadine's evocative love story is finally and rightfully told - in their own hauntingly beautiful words and images - with the assistance of others, including family, friends and skilful, empathetic filmmakers. I so felt their love... it filled my heart up with so many emotions... Tears of sadness for what they endured in Ravensbrück and Mauthausen Concentration Camps; for what they missed during the years of forced separation... The deepest respect for their unending courage and all they conquered; and Joy and relief that their unbreakable bond and devotion to one another was lifelong... Magnifique!

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

05/15/23

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Magnus Gertten

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Nadine Hwang

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Sylvie Bianchi

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Anne Coesens

Nelly

Bwanga Pilipili

Nadine

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Nelly & Nadine is the unlikely love story between two women falling in love on Christmas Eve, 1944, in the Ravensbrück concentration camp. Despite being separated in the last months of the war, Nelly and Nadine manage to later reunite and spend the rest of their life together. For many years their love story was kept a secret, even to some of their closest family. Now Nelly's grandchild, Sylvie, has decided to open Nelly and Nadine's unseen personal archives and uncover their remarkable story.

Director: Magnus Gertten
Producer: Ove Rishøj Jensen
Screenwriter: Magnus Gertten, Jesper Osmund
Distributor: Wolfe Releasing
Genre: Documentary, Biography, History, LGBTQ+
Original Language: French (France)
Release Date (Theaters): Dec 16, 2022, Limited
Runtime: 1h 33m

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