Ana, mon amour

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Movie
Original title Ana, mon amour
Country of production Romania , Germany , France
original language Romanian , Russian
Publishing year 2017
length 127 minutes
Rod
Director Călin Peter Netzer
script Călin Peter Netzer,
Cezar Paul-Bădescu ,
Iulia Lumânare
production Călin Peter Netzer,
Oana Iancu
camera Andrei Butica
cut Dana Bunescu
occupation

Ana, mon amour is a feature film by Calin Peter Netzer from the year 2017 . The Romanian - German - French co-production is based on the novel Luminița, mon amour by Cezar Paul-Bădescu and focuses on the complicated relationship of a young Romanian couple (portrayed by Diana Cavallioti and Mircea Postelnicu ) in which the woman is suffering from a mental illness suffers. With her recovery through analytical psychotherapy, the marriage breaks up and the couple separates.

The melodrama premiered on February 17, 2017 in the competition at the 67th Berlin International Film Festival. The film premiered in Romania on March 1, 2017. It was released in German cinemas on August 24, 2017.

action

Toma and Ana get to know each other while studying literature together. While Toma comes from a middle-class family, Ana grew up in a complicated family situation and suffers from panic attacks. Already on the first date Toma is confronted with one of her "incidents". He responds to this with understanding and care and both enter into a relationship with each other despite all the opposition of their parents.

Ana's phobias and panic attacks increase over time and her health deteriorates noticeably. She no longer leaves the dormitory, retires to bed and has to be accompanied by Toma herself when going to the toilet. After a possible suicide attempt, neither the hospital doctors nor a psychiatrist can determine a medical cause. As the couple increasingly isolated themselves from family and friends, Ana's health slowly improved. Thanks to Tomas devoted help, she can leave the house and her situation gradually begins to normalize.

When Ana becomes pregnant, they both decide to get married. A gynecologist referred Ana to a psychotherapist, where she received real help for the first time. After the birth of her son Tudor, Ana found her way back to self-employment and quickly rose to become editor-in-chief in the editorial office of a women's magazine. Meanwhile, Toma gives up his job as a journalist and devotes himself entirely to raising their child. Reinforced through analytical psychotherapy, Ana emancipates herself. The jealous Toma cannot handle his wife's newfound independence. He suspects her to have a relationship with their mutual friend Bogdan and spies on her. Toma suspects Ana's psychotherapist to be the driving force behind her extreme change in nature. There is a separation after years. The supposedly more psychologically robust Toma ends up taking up psychoanalytic sessions himself in order to come to terms with his broken marriage.

background

Ana, mon amour is the fourth feature film by the Romanian director and screenwriter Călin Peter Netzer, who used interpersonal relationships to examine the sensitivities of post-communist Romania in his previous works . The novel Luminița, mon amour by his compatriot Cezar Paul-Bădescu , published in 2006, served as a literary model . Together with Paul-Bădescu and Iulia Lumânare , Netzer revised the novel into a script. According to his own account, Netzer did not want to explore the breakup of a relationship in the film, but the inability to properly build a relationship. He gave the leading roles to the Romanian actors Diana Cavallioti and Mircea Postelnicu . While Cavallioti has been working as a film and television actress since the mid-2000s, Postelnicu is a tried and tested theater actor who had barely any film experience prior to the shooting of Ana, mon amour .

The production costs were estimated at two million euros in mid-October 2014. The film project was supported with 361,000 euros from the Romanian national film subsidy, which provided only half of the requested funds in the same month. The Filmstiftung NRW supported Netzer's directorial work with 250,000 euros, additional funds came from Eurimages , while HBO Romania was involved as the broadcaster. The film was produced by Parada Film , in coproduction with the German augenschein Filmproduktion and the French Sophie Dulac Productions .

The Cologne distributor Real Fiction Film will bring Ana, mon amour to German cinemas. Beta Cinema holds the rights for world sales .

Awards

Ana, mon amour competed in the Berlinale competition for the Golden Bear , which Netzer had won in 2013 with his previous film Mother & Son . The film editor Dana Bunescu received a Silver Bear for an "Outstanding Artistic Achievement" for the cut .

literature

  • Paul-Bădescu, Cezar: Luminița, mon amour . Iași; Bucharest: Polirom, 2006. - ISBN 9789734603862 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Profile at berlinale.de (accessed on February 2, 2017).
  2. ↑ Ekkehard Knörer : Seized by fear. In: www.spiegel.de . August 24, 2017. Retrieved August 25, 2017 .
  3. ↑ Ana, mon amour . In: Der Tagesspiegel , February 1, 2017, p. 24.
  4. ^ Filmul "Ana, mon amour", de Călin Peter Netzer, selectat în competiția oficială a Berlinalei at agerpres.ro, December 15, 2016 (accessed on February 3, 2017).
  5. ↑ Blaga, Iulia: PRODUCTION: Călin Peter Netzer Develops Ana, Mon Amour at filmneweurope.com, October 16, 2014 (accessed on February 3, 2017).
  6. ↑ a b Two productions funded by the Filmstiftung in the Berlinale competition at filmstiftung.de, December 15, 2016 (accessed on January 3, 2017).
  7. ↑ Profile ( memento of the original dated February 6, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at barbarella.de (accessed on February 3, 2017). @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.barbarella.de
  8. ↑ Berlinale Awards 2017 (accessed on February 19, 2017).