In the Name of My Daughter

Audience Reviews

View More

11/14/2020 Lots of sound and fury from Canet, Deneuve and Haenel that ultimately lacks enough drive to hold interest to end See more 11/15/2015 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! See more José C @RT77627461 10/12/2015 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. See more walter m @Harlequin68 06/17/2015 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. See more 06/03/2015 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. See more 05/28/2015 André Téchiné's anticlimactic In the Name of My Daughter is a vehicle for Adèle Haenel's frighteningly intense performance. See more Read all reviews

In the Name of My Daughter

My Rating

Read More Read Less WRITE A REVIEW EDIT REVIEW POST RATING