Nelly and Mr. Arnaud
Nelly and Mr. Arnaud is a 1995 French film directed by Claude Sautet and starring Michel Serrault, Emmanuelle Béart and Jean-Hugues Anglade. It won the César Award for Best Director and Best Actor for Michel Serrault.
Plot
Nelly is married to Jerôme, a man who is unemployed and has stopped searching for work. Nelly was made redundant from her publishing job and now just has odd jobs at a printing shop and a bakery, so they have fallen six months behind on the rent for their apartment. Talking with her friend Jacqueline at a coffee shop, she encounters Pierre Arnaud, a wealthy retired businessman who had a languid affair with Jacqueline in the past and who saw Nelly in the past at one of Jacqueline's parties. After discovering Nelly is in debt, Arnaud offers to give Nelly 30,000 francs as a gift. Nelly reluctantly accepts, pays her overdue rent and then leaves her husband.
Awards
Cast
- Abel Jafri
- Charles Berling
- Claire Nadeau
- Coraly Zahonero
- Emmanuelle Béart
- Françoise Brion
- Janine Souchon
- Jean-Hugues Anglade
- Jean-Pierre Lorit
- Judith Vittet
- Karine Foviau
- Michael Lonsdale
- Michel Albertini
- Michel Serrault
- Michèle Laroque
- Olivier Pajot
- Philippe Lelièvre
- Sylvie Jobert
- Thierry Heckendorn
More details
author | Claude Sautet Jacques Fieschi |
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award | César Award for Best Actor César Award for Best Director Louis Delluc Prize |
director | Claude Sautet |
editor | Jacqueline Thiédot |
genre | drama |
keywords | coffee shop discover estrange married morning new apartment odd job publish retire search talk unemployed |
musicBy | Philippe Sarde |
nomination | César Award for Best Actress César Award for Best Film |
producer | Alain Sarde Antoine Gannagé |
publisher | BAC Films |