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Release year: 2003

Storyline

A rich woman hires an elite prostitute in order to verify her husband's faithfulness. Before long the experiment gets out of control.

Top credits

Directors

Anne Fontaine

Writers

Cast

Fanny Ardant — Catherine
Emmanuelle Béart — Nathalie, Marlène
Gérard Depardieu — Bernard
Wladimir Yordanoff — François

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Did you know

• Nathalie Ribout, the initial script by Philippe Blasband, was published as a play in 2003 and made it to the stage in Paris in 2009 at the Théâtre Marigny with Virginie Efira as Nathalie and Maruschka Detmers as the wife. The play isn't considered to be an adaptation of the film, but more of a variation on the same idea, as Blasband's original screenplay was significantly reworked for the film, with the couple in Blasband's script being separated and in the midst of divorce proceedings, in addition to being named Sonia and Jean-Luc instead of Catherine and Bernard.

• Director/co-writer Anne Fontaine was dissatisfied with the film as she had intended for a lesbian relationship to develop between Nathalie and Catherine, but Fanny Ardant and Emmanuelle Béart both objected to it.

• Vanessa Paradis was initially cast as Nathalie but dropped out due to being pregnant with her second child, Jack Depp.