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In the Name of My Daughter(L'homme qu'on aimait trop)

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France · 2014
Rated R · 2h 2m
Director André Téchiné
Starring Catherine Deneuve, Guillaume Canet, Adèle Haenel, Judith Chemla
Genre Drama, Mystery

In 1976 in Nice, Agnes, the daughter of Renée, a wealthy widow and owner of a casino on the French Riviera, returns to Nice to have a new start in her life after a failed marriage. While there, she falls in love with an older lawyer and begins a passionate affair.

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83

The A.V. Club by

Like any good prosecutor, Téchiné gives us enough information to render a verdict without bullying us into agreement. His gift to his viewers is the space to think for ourselves.

63

Slant Magazine by Clayton Dillard

This adaptation is to concerned with narrative fidelity and formal objectivity to pierce the veil of power dynamics that largely comprises the film's concerns.

70

The Dissolve by Mike D'Angelo

These characters are so richly drawn, and inhabit such a precise milieu, that they deserved a less perfunctory, anticlimactic fate. The truth will allegedly set us free, but it often puts filmmakers in chains.

63

RogerEbert.com by Odie Henderson

Those looking for a courtroom drama or the emotional tugging that might result from a mother’s 30-year fight to get justice for her daughter will find little to chew on here.

50

Variety by Peter Debruge

A mobster movie without whackings, a thriller without suspense and a courtroom drama without resolution, this turgid retelling of an unsolved missing-persons case functions mostly as a portrait of a young woman who loved too passionately and the manipulative creep incapable of reciprocating her affections.

75

Observer by Rex Reed

It’s a high-class thriller without a single goose bump, but between the mother, the daughter, the lawyer, the Mafia, and the investors determined to separate Renée from her money and power, there’s enough material to juggle several balls in the air at the same time.

60

Los Angeles Times by Sheri Linden

None of it is quite satisfying, especially when old-age makeup takes center stage. But striking moments develop along the way, jolts of weird joy and melancholy as menace gathers under the Mediterranean sun.

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