Nadia, Butterfly

I thought this film was going to be good as everyone keeps recommending it but it's literally horrible. The acting was bad and some scenes were far too long making you bored. I regret purchasing this film.

The entire time I kept thinking, or hoping, that the tension they were trying to build would lead to some development and conclusion but nope. The acting is the usual Quebec quality; subpar to most every other country. And there is no storyline at all. Simply events that lead nowhere. And a very ungrateful privilege white cis Olympic winning swimmer.

I couldn't really come close to Nadia and feel empathy for her. I can see the inner conflict of the character but I can't really feel it to my core. The movie has long takes which sometimes feel okay but sometimes you just want to come to the point of the shot. Great choose of colors. More than half of the movie I was waiting for something bigger to happen but it didn't. Anyhow, if I could go back in time I wouldn't watch the movie.

I don't know about the bad acting or the slow burn or the let down but what I do know about this movie is that they got the result of the race arse-up . . . Why?

Did a Canadian movie have to put the Americans in first place so they could get the financing, or the ticket sales.

Or does Canada just simply have to kowtow to the Americans in every regard . . . If so, shameful! What an embarrassment.

Anyhow, what I'm getting at is that AUSTRALIA won that race, the USA second, not the other way around! And it was an Olympic record, thank you very much.

If you are interested in swimming world, you can watch it. If not, forget it. It shows, in the fist part, young female swimmers who swim, talk, talk, without any meaning nor purpose. In France, or America movie industry, there has been films about sport and athletes, from the inside, and there was more interesting than this. There was drama, situations, character study, really something. Here, nothing at all. This is not a documentary, nor a real film either.... But it provides an excellent second part, very moving, showing a youg female athlete, an elite athlete, who suddenly discovers the actual, real life, a life which she is not totally ready to encounter. Good directing, and an awesome score that throws you deep inside the true meaning of this film. Terrific ending.