The screenplay by Matthiessen and co-writers Martin Pieter Zandvliet and Anders Frithiof August is compelling up until the melodramatic, credulity-straining final act, although the characters, apart from Emma, feel underdeveloped.
The Model
✭ ✭ ✭ Read critic reviews
Denmark · 2016
1h 45m
Director Mads Matthiesen
Starring Maria Palm, Ed Skrein, Charlotte Tomaszewska, Marco Ilsø
Genre Drama
Add to Watchlist
Please login to add films to your watchlist.
When emerging fashion model Emma gets a chance to pursue her dream of becoming an international top model, she leaves her life in Denmark behind and moves to Paris. There she meets the attractive photographer Shane White and they fall in love. However, their relationship soon sends Emma into a dangerous obsession.
What are people saying?
What are critics saying?
Slant Magazine by Diego Semerene
The film unapologetically warns us at every turn that fashion is nothing but a business, fueled by naiveté and rape.
Los Angeles Times by Katie Walsh
Matthiesen offers no easy answers, but The Model paints a decidedly unglamorous picture, while pulling back the curtain on the exploitative realities of the business.
The New York Times by Neil Genzlinger
Mr. Matthiesen seems as if he might have been trying to make an indictment of sexism and exploitation in the fashion world, but if so he doesn’t hit the theme nearly hard enough.
The Playlist by Oktay Ege Kozak
Even as a late night Netflix viewing for fashion aficionados who enjoy a scandalous bit of melodramatic trash, The Model doesn’t offer anything new, interesting, or engaging.
Screen International by Wendy Ide
The descent into melodrama in the final act increases the tension but, in relying on some unexpected actions by several characters, also damages the film’s credibility.
Users who liked this film also liked
Heavenly Creatures
When Juliet and Pauline’s parents suspect that their friendship is unhealthy, the girls hatch a plan to stay together.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- New Zealand, Germany • 1994
- Director Peter Jackson
- Cast Melanie Lynskey, Kate Winslet, Sarah Peirse, Simon O'Connor, Diana Kent, Clive Merrison
- Genre Drama, Fantasy
- Available on No streaming locations found.
La Femme Nikita
(Nikita)
She murders so she can live.
- ✭ ✭ ✭
- France, Italy • 1990
- Director Luc Besson
- Cast Anne Parillaud, Jean-Hugues Anglade, Tchéky Karyo, Jean Reno, Marc Duret, Jeanne Moreau
- Genre Action, Thriller
- Available on Amazon Video, Microsoft Store
Sirens
In the 1930s, an artist and his models scandalized a nation with their controversial paintings.
- ✭ ✭ ✭
- Australia, United Kingdom • 1994
- Director John Duigan
- Cast Hugh Grant, Tara Fitzgerald, Sam Neill, Elle Macpherson, Portia de Rossi, Kate Fischer
- Genre Comedy, Drama
- Available on Peacock, Paramount Plus Apple TV Channel , Tubi TV, Pluto TV, Freevee
The Airplane
(L'avion)
- ✭ ✭ ✭
- France, Germany • 2005
- Director Cédric Kahn
- Cast Roméo Botzaris, Isabelle Carré, Vincent Lindon, Nicolas Briançon, Alicia Djemaï, Yves Penay
- Genre Drama, Comedy
- Available on No streaming locations found.
Novo
Each day is a new day... Each time, the first time...
- ✭ ✭
- France, Spain, Switzerland • 2002
- Director Jean-Pierre Limosin
- Cast Eduardo Noriega, Anna Mouglalis, Paz Vega, Nathalie Richard, Éric Caravaca
- Genre Drama, Comedy, Romance
- Available on AMC+ Amazon Channel, IFC Films Unlimited Apple TV Channel, Apple TV
A Blast
(Η Έκρηξη)
- ✭ ✭ ✭
- Greece, Germany, Netherlands • 2014
- Director Syllas Tzoumerkas
- Cast Angeliki Papoulia, Vassilis Doganis, Maria Filini, Giorgos Biniaris
- Genre Drama, Thriller
- Available on No streaming locations found.
The Next Skin
(La propera pell)
- ✭ ✭ ✭
- Spain, Switzerland • 2016
- Director Isaki Lacuesta, Isa Campo
- Cast Emma Suárez, Àlex Monner, Sergi López, Bruno Todeschini, Igor Szpakowski, Greta Fernández
- Genre Drama, Mystery, Thriller
- Available on Netflix, Netflix basic with Ads
The Monster of Mangatiti
- ✭ ✭ ✭
- New Zealand • 2015
- Director Philly de Lacey
- Cast Greta Gregory, Mark Mitchinson, Flynn Allan, Mark Warren, Roz Turnbull
- Genre Drama, TV Movie
- Available on No streaming locations found.
Berlin Syndrome
An Australian photojournalist wakes one morning in a Berlin apartment and is unable to leave.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Australia • 2017
- Director Cate Shortland
- Cast Teresa Palmer, Max Riemelt, Matthias Habich, Emma Bading, Elmira Bahrami, Christoph Franken
- Genre Mystery, Thriller, Drama
- Available on Netflix, Hoopla, Netflix basic with Ads, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Vudu, Amazon Video, Microsoft Store, YouTube
The Innocents
(Les Innocentes)
Poland, 1945. Mathilde, a young French Red Cross doctor, is on a mission to help war survivors when a nun asks for her help.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- France, Poland • 2016
- Director Anne Fontaine
- Cast Lou de Laâge, Agata Buzek, Agata Kulesza, Vincent Macaigne, Joanna Kulig, Eliza Rycembel
- Genre Drama, History
- Available on Amazon Prime Video, Hoopla, OVID, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Vudu, Amazon Video, YouTube, Tubi TV, Freevee, Amazon Prime Video with Ads, Kanopy, Plex,
What the Waters Left Behind
(Los olvidados)
- ✭ ✭
- Argentina, New Zealand • 2017
- Director Luciano Onetti, Nicolás Onetti
- Cast Paula Brasca, Mirta Busnelli, Victoria Maurette, Pablo Guisa Koestinger, Victorio D'Alessandro, Chucho Fernández
- Genre Horror
- Available on Amazon Video, Pantaflix, Tubi TV, Plex,
I'm Losing It
(Я худею)
- ✭ ✭ ✭
- Russia • 2018
- Director Alexey Nuzhnyy
- Cast Aleksandra Bortich, Evgeniy Kulik, Irina Gorbacheva, Sergey Shnurov, Aleksandr Ptashenchuk
- Genre Comedy
- Available on Amazon Video, Tubi TV, Plex,
Un homme parfait
- ✭ ✭ ✭
- France • 2019
- Director Didier Bivel
- Cast Odile Vuillemin, Loïc Corbery, Didier Flamand, Frédérique Tirmont, Natalia Dontcheva, Raphaëline Goupilleau
- Genre Drama, TV Movie, Thriller
- Available on No streaming locations found.