Une nouvelle amie (original title)
15 | 1h 48min | Drama | France
Director: François Ozon
Writers: Ruth Rendell (novel), François Ozon (screenplay)
Stars: Romain Duris, Anaïs Demoustier, Raphaël Personnaz
15 | 1h 48min | Drama | France
Director: François Ozon
Writers: Ruth Rendell (novel), François Ozon (screenplay)
Stars: Romain Duris, Anaïs Demoustier, Raphaël Personnaz
The New Girlfriend is a 2014 French erotic drama film
directed by François Ozon, based on the short story of the same name by Ruth
Rendell. It had its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival
on 6 September 2014.
Elegant.
Childhood best friends Claire and Laura are
utterly inseparable, so it comes as a particularly devastating blow when Laura
becomes ill and dies, leaving her husband, David, to raise their new born
daughter Lucie by himself. As she stops by the house one afternoon, door
unlocked, she finds a strange woman holding Lucie, who, on closer inspection,
turns out to be David in a blonde wig and one of Laura's dresses.
Critical response
Review aggregation website Rotten Tomatoes gives the film a score of 80% based on 76 reviews, with an average score of 6.8 out of 10. On Metacritic, the film has a score of 74 out of 100 from 22 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews".