Été 85

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Movie
Original title Été 85
Country of production France
original language French
Publishing year 2020
length 100 minutes
Rod
Director François Ozon
script François Ozon
production Eric Altmayer ,
Nicolas Altmayer
music Jean-Benoît Dunckel
camera Hichame Alaouie
cut Laure Gardette
occupation

Été 85 (International English title Summer of '85 ) is a drama film directed by François Ozon , which was released in French cinemas on July 14, 2020. The film is based on the novel Dance on My Grave by Aidan Chambers .

action

16-year-old Alexis spends the summer in a small seaside resort on the Normandy coast. After he is saved from drowning by 18-year-old David, he falls in love with him.

Literary template

The film is based on the novel Dance On My Grave by Aidan Chambers

The film is based on the novel Dance On My Grave by the British writer Aidan Chambers from 1982. The novel is about two boys who met during a summer in the English seaside resort of Southend in the early 1980s. At the beginning of the novel, 16-year-old Hal Robinson is arrested by the police for dancing on a grave. In retrospect, the boy tells how it came about from his point of view. When he met 18-year-old Barry Gorman, he was fascinated by his exuberant energy and self-confidence. Shy Hal lets himself be carried away by the bundle of energy and does not even notice that he has at some point reached the point from which he can no longer imagine a life without his friend. But then there is a terrible argument between the two. The relationship between Barry and Hal lasted seven weeks, but before the grass can grow again, Barry has a fatal accident with his motorcycle. Because he promised his dead friend, Hal dances on his grave. The novel was published in 1984 in a German translation by Cornelia Holfelder-von der Tann under the title Dance on my grave near Würzburg Arena.

Aidan Chambers was born in 1934 in Chester-le-Street, northeast England, and worked after joining a Church of England monastery in 1960 and continuing to teach as a monk. In 1967 Chambers left the Order and has lived as a freelance writer in Gloucestershire since then. After initially writing for younger readers, he turned to young adults from 1975 and began his award-winning dance series with Breaktime in 1978 , in which each novel tells a separate story of young people. In 2002 Chambers received the renowned Hans Christian Andersen Medal for his complete works.

production

Direction and script

Directed by François Ozon , who also wrote the script. In the summer of 1985, the then 17-year-old director had read Chambers' novel in the French edition entitled La Danse du coucou and, according to his own statements, identified himself strongly with Alex, especially because of his naivete and he was just exploring romantic feelings. The novel had a strong impact on him because the two protagonists were of the same age.

Ozone moved the story to Normandy. Eté 85 was filmed in the northern French municipality of Le Tréport, among others

In his adaptation, however, ozone changed a few things compared to the original, as he had planned as a teenager after reading the book. While the story in the novel takes place in the English seaside resort of Southend-on-Sea , where Chambers attended Westcliff High School for three years and got his first job, it was relocated to Le Tréport on the Normandy coast for the film, as ozone was the French This seaside resort, with its red brick houses, pebble beach and not-too-renovated town, was considered perfect to capture the 1980s there. The au pair, who is Norwegian in the book, made Ozone English.

Cast and filming

The young actors Benjamin Voisin and Félix Lefebvre play the leading roles David and Alexis, or Alex for short. Philippine Velge took on the role of Kate. Isabelle Nanty and Laurent Fernandez play Alex 'Madame and Monsieur Robin, Valeria Bruni Tedeschi David's mother Madame Gorman. Melvil Poupaud plays Monsieur Lefèvre.

The recordings were made on 22 days of shooting between May 28th and June 26th 2019 in Normandy, for example in the northern French communities of Le Tréport and Yport and in the former fishing village of Pourville-sur-Mer. The Belgian Hichame Alaouie acted as cameraman . The film was shot under the working title Eté 84 .

Film music and publication

The film music was composed by Jean-Benoît Dunckel . A first piece of music from the soundtrack album was released in June 2020.

At the beginning of June 2020 it was announced that Été 85 was in the "official selection", a selection of 56 films from the Cannes Film Festival originally planned for May 2020 , which have been canceled in their usual form due to the coronavirus pandemic. At this time, a first teaser was presented, which was underlaid with the piece In Between Days by The Cure . The film also begins with the 1985 song, which gave the film its eventual title. In addition, songs by Raf , Lloyd Cole and the Commotions and Bananarama can be heard in the film.

The soundtrack album with 15 pieces of music was released as a download by Sony Masterworks in mid-July 2020. Among them is next to In Between Days and the song Sailing by Rod Stewart , played in the movie, as Alex fulfills the promise of the late David.

The first screenings took place at the beginning of July 2020, for example at the La Rochelle Cinéma Festival. On July 14, 2020, the national holiday to commemorate the storming of the Bastille , the film was released in French cinemas. A screening at the San Sebastian International Film Festival is planned for September 2020 . It will also be shown at the Toronto International Film Festival in September 2020 . The cinema release in Germany is planned for May 27, 2021.

reception

Reviews

Etienne Sorin from Le Figaro writes that Été 85 is not a gay version of La Boum and that François Ozon is anything but a sentimental director when he lets Alexis announce in a voice-over with very little candy pink at the beginning of the film: “David Gorman takes the stage. He is a future corpse. "

Awards

San Sebastian International Film Festival 2020

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Summer of 85. In: cineuropa.org. Retrieved June 3, 2020.
  2. ↑ a b c d Été 85. In: normandieimages.fr. Retrieved June 3, 2020 (French)
  3. ↑ a b Teaser Cannes 2020 / “Été 85” (2020) de François Ozon. In: bullesdeculture.com, June 5, 2020.
  4. ↑ Dance on my grave. Translated from the English by Cornelia Holfelder-von der Tann. In: zvab.com. Retrieved June 3, 2020.
  5. ↑ a b Aidan Chambers. In: literaturfestival.com. Retrieved June 3, 2020.
  6. ^ Fabien Lemercier: François Ozon shooting Summer of 1985. In: cineuropa.org, June 5, 2019.
  7. ↑ Été 85. In: unifrance.org. Retrieved June 3, 2020 (French)
  8. ↑ a b c Gwénaëlle Loaëc: François Ozon et son “Eté 85”: “J'ai fait ce film pour l'ado que j'ai été”. In: Le Parisien, July 11, 2020 (French)
  9. ↑ Bruno Deruisseau: Avec “Eté 85”, François Ozon sublime le teen movie. In: lesinrocks.com, July 10, 2020 (French)
  10. ↑ Jennifer Sattaur: Aidan Chambers: Master Literary Choreographer (review). In: Children s Literature Association Quarterly 32 (1), January 2007.
  11. ↑ Clément Cuyer: François Ozon se plonge dans l'été 1984 pour son nouveau movie. In: allocine.fr, June 6, 2019. (French)
  12. ↑ En tournage: «Été 84» de François Ozon. In: troiscouleurs.fr, 6 June 2019. (French)
  13. ↑ JB Dunckel Scoring Francois Ozon's 'Summer of 85' ('Été 85') In: filmmusicreporter.com, June 3, 2020.
  14. ↑ First Track from 'Summer of 85' ('Ét' 85 ') Soundtrack Released. In: filmmusicreporter.com, June 22, 2020.
  15. ↑ a b Festival de cannes 2020: la liste des films labellisés “Sélection officielle”. In: troiscouleurs.fr, June 3, 2020 (French)
  16. ^ Emilie Schneider: Été 85 de François Ozon: une première bande-annonce nostalgique. In: allocine.fr, June 3, 2020.
  17. ↑ https://variety.com/2020/film/global/japans-flag-acquires-francois-ozons-cannes-2020-title-summer-of-85-from-playtime-1234646180/
  18. ↑ 'Summer of 85' ('Été 85') Soundtrack Album Released. In: filmmusicreporter.com, July 16, 2020.
  19. ↑ https://variety.com/2020/film/reviews/summer-of-85-review-ete-85-1234706311/
  20. ↑ Agnès Lanoëlle: Festival La Rochelle Cinema: ça Démarre ce vendredi soir pour trois jours. In: sudouest.fr, 3 July 2020. (French)
  21. ↑ Barbara Schuster: San Sebastian announces first competition titles. In: Blickpunkt: Film, July 6, 2020.
  22. ↑ Here are all the movies set for the Toronto Film Festival's first hybrid virtual edition. In: Los Angeles Times, July 30, 2020.
  23. ↑ Start dates in Germany. In: insidekino.com. Retrieved August 20, 2020.
  24. ↑ Etienne Sorin: François Ozon replonge à l '"Été 85". In: Le Figaro, July 13, 2020 (French)
  25. ^ Alfonso Rivera: François Ozon et Thomas Vinterberg parmi les prétendants à la Coquille d'or de San Sebastian. In: cineuropa.org, July 3, 2020. (French)