Nadia, Butterfly

2020

Pascal Plante

Katerine Savard, Ariane Mainville, Pierre-Yves Cardinal, Hilary Caldwell ...

5.8

224

Drama

Drama

While young and in her prime, Nadia (two-time Olympian Katerine Savard) decides to retire from pro swimming after the Olympic Games to escape a rigid life of sacrifice. After her very last race, Nadia drifts into nights of excess punctuated by episodes of self-doubt. But even this transitional numbness cannot conceal her true inner quest: defining her identity outside the world of elite sports.

	Media	Author	Review
		David Rooney The Hollywood Reporter	"The feverish atmosphere that grips an Olympic host city is so vividly suggested... (...) The immersion is all the more remarkable given the arrestingly intimate nature of this laser-focused drama"
		Wendy Ide Screendaily	"[It] achieves what many sports movies fail to do. It unpicks the complex motivations behind success and explores the character flaws which are every bit as necessary as the strengths when it comes to athletic excellence"
		David Ehrlich IndieWire	"A deeply felt (almost anthropological) look at a rare butterfly in search of the second chrysalis she needs to spread her wings and become herself all over again."
		Peter Debruge Variety	"Aloof, intermittently engaging (...) [It] cares more — as its too-cute title implies — about the abstract idea of transformation than the actual work it takes."
		Steve Pond The Wrap	"It’s a restrained and intimate character study (...) For all the battles that Nadia wages when she’s in the water, this is a subdued and subtly powerful look at the unexpected perils of dry land."

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