Viard, a gifted, protean actor who was terrific in the cop-drama Polisse and has done excellent work in dozens of French films, has incisive comic timing and also shows us a likable fragility beneath her character's bitterness.

The directors get much mileage out of Nathalie's toxic behavior, with Viard drawing laughs from what's actually an extremely sad, borderline disturbing tale of one fiftysomething woman's downward spiral into alcoholism, resentment and general misery.

Jealous works from a character that does not try to fall well, or believe that comedy needs it to get the laughs. [Full Review in Spanish]

Obviously without Karin Viard... the end result would not have been possible. [Full review in Spanish]