
In 1976 Nice, Agnès Le Roux, daughter of the owner of the Palais de la Méditerranée, falls madly in love with a handsome lawyer 10 years her senior, Maurice Agnelet. Against a background of war casinos, she connects with Fratoni, sour competitor of his mother, who offers him three million francs to take control of the casino. Agnes accepts but resents his betrayal. After a suicide attempt, the young woman disappears .... (Full plot summary below)
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In 1976 Nice, Agnès Le Roux, daughter of the owner of the Palais de la Méditerranée, falls madly in love with a handsome lawyer 10 years her senior, Maurice Agnelet. Against a background of war casinos, she connects with Fratoni, sour competitor of his mother, who offers him three million francs to take control of the casino. Agnes accepts but resents his betrayal. After a suicide attempt, the young woman disappears .
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| CompuserveHarvey S. KartenIn his seventh collaboration with Catherine Deneuve, director André Techiné focuses with amusing results on both romance and politics--on a young woman who loves too much, and a casino owner's enemies determined to wrest control from her of a casino. |
| Film Journal InternationalDoris ToumarkineIt's the presence of the unflagging, always compelling [Catherine] Deneuve [...] that is the added value here. |
| NewsdayJohn AndersonTawdry tale gets complex, layered treatment from French master Andre Techine. |
| The Patriot LedgerAl AlexanderIt lowers the stakes on murder and betrayal to the point where they're about as riveting as a parking ticket. |
| One Guy's OpinionFrank SwietekTells a lurid, fact-based story in a curiously understated, reticent way...intriguing but emotionally rather dessicated. |
| HeraldNet (Everett, WA)Robert HortonEngrossing material, with a very watchable trio. |
| Detroit NewsTom Long'In the Name of My Daughter" is one of those French films that leave you going "huh?" |
| Seattle TimesMoira MacDonaldIt's a pleasure to take in the lush settings, to hear the delicately ominous score (by Benjamin Biolay) and to watch these actors circling each other. |
| Film ExperienceGlenn DunksHaenel and Deneuve, puffing on cigarettes at every turn, aren't given enough material to make their characters identifiable as human beings worth empathizing over; their bourgeois, petty squabbles over money increasingly difficult to care about. |
| New YorkerRichard BrodyThe true story of a late-seventies murder case, which is well-known in France, is a ready-made classic melodrama. |