Andrea and Marie
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| Original title | Andrea and Marie |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1998 |
| length | 90 minutes |
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| Director | Martin Enlen |
| script | Thommie Bayer |
| production | Heike Wiehle-Timm |
| music | Dieter Schleip |
| camera | Martin Langer |
| cut | Monika Abspacher |
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Andrea and Marie is a German television film with Iris Berben and Hannelore Elsner from 1998. The story is based on an idea by Heike Wiehle-Timm , who also appeared as a producer for the film.
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Although nothing has been going on in the bedroom for a long time, the Hamburg architect Marie still loves her husband Ralf very much. Little does she suspect that Ralf is having an affair with Andrea, an art teacher. Andrea knows that Ralf is married, but prefers not to find out who her rival is. Marie and Ralf finally go on vacation to their summer home on the Côte d'Azur . While working in the garden, Ralf injured a vertebra and had to go to the hospital. Andrea is also on vacation with her daughter Celine nearby, as she had a secret meeting with Ralf there.
When Celine is walking alone down a street, she is harassed by two young men. Marie comes to her aid and takes Celine with her in her car. Marie and Andrea then get to know each other and understand each other straight away. They meet again by chance in a village. They go swimming with Celine and later look for a ruin that Andrea has inherited along with the property. When Andrea spontaneously paints a picture of Marie, she suggests actively helping Andrea as the architect of a new building for the property. After Celine left prematurely to take a language course in England, Marie and Andrea talk about Ralf without knowing that they are talking about the same man. However, when Marie mentions that her husband is a bookseller, Andrea begins to understand that Ralf is Marie's husband. When Andrea abruptly says goodbye to Marie, Marie believes that she has bothered Andrea too much with the construction plans. In the hospital, she blames herself and tells Ralf that she doesn't want to lose Andrea as a friend she has never had before. Meanwhile, Andrea packs her things and leaves crying.
Back in Hamburg, Ralf is at Andrea's door. She asks him for time and ends the relationship for the time being. Meanwhile, Marie meets Celine again and shortly afterwards Andrea, who tries to explain the spontaneous departure from southern France to her. Marie, who really wants to introduce her husband to Andrea, finally finds Andreas' phone number in Ralf's address book. When Ralf comes home, she confronts him with her discovery and then tears up the blueprints for Andrea's house. Both women now suffer from being rivals. Above all, Marie is angry with her husband, who has not slept with her in a long time, apparently to save himself for his lover. Andrea, on the other hand, is ashamed of having betrayed her first real friend and tries to process her feelings about painting. Celine finally makes it clear to her that she couldn't have known that Marie Ralf's wife, of all people, was. Andrea gives a jerk in the episode and calls Marie to tell her that she regrets having lost her as a friend.
Marie then shows up at Andrea's school with a model of the house she designed. Relieved, Andrea took a six-month leave of absence and obtained a loan to work with Marie on the construction project in southern France. After initial work on site, they visit an old abandoned monastery. When Andrea starts to photograph Marie, she spontaneously takes off her clothes to pose for Andrea. When Ralf gives Andrea a wooden elephant as a present, the two women quarrel. Marie cannot bear that Ralf desires Andrea more, although she is older than her. Andrea is hurt again because Marie seems to believe that she is the only one suffering from jealousy, although Andrea feels the same way. After making up again, they look at the developed nudes of Marie in a café. When one of the men who had harassed Celine, named Dietmar, insolently starts to look at the pictures, Andrea slaps him in the face. Offended in his ego, he describes the two women as lesbians.
Hungry for love, Marie ordered a man one evening. After she has shared the bed with the handsome gigolo Raoul, he offers his services to Andrea, who eagerly accepts the offer. When Andrea and Marie go swimming in a lonely bay one afternoon, Dietmar suddenly appears with his friend. When he gets cheeky and prepares to rape Marie, Andrea grabs a crowbar lying around and injures Dietmar on the arm. Dietmar leaves the bay at the urging of his friend. When Ralf finally arrives again in the south of France, he finds his two wives happy in his pool.
background
Andrea and Marie was produced by Relevant Film on behalf of ARTE and ZDF . Hannelore Elsner and Iris Berben stood together in front of the camera for the first time for the film. The film was shot from May to June 1997 in Hamburg and on the Côte d'Azur .
On January 2, 1998, the film was shown on German television for the first time on ARTE. When it was broadcast on ZDF on April 6, 1998, the audience rating was 7.35 million. In 2007 the film was released on DVD.
Reviews
Daniela Pogade from the Berliner Zeitung praised the two leading actresses: “Berben and Elsner drive everyone crazy here. Women. Men. Directors. And the audience. ”The Bunte even described the film as the“ erotic summit of power women ”.
According to Der Spiegel , the critics on the occasion of the first broadcast of the film had criticized the "implausible plot". In the two following years, however, "so many crude stories ran across the screen" that in comparison with these productions, Andrea and Marie can boast with the eroticism presented. Iris Berben and Hannelore Elsner are "both so busy with seductive smiles" that "the TV viewer no longer pays attention to what they say". The way "the Elsner seized and lustful" look down on the "best [e] part" of the gigolo belongs almost to "the upper class of amorous banter in German TV movies".
TV Spielfilm found that the "unobtrusive direction" by Martin Enlen "cleverly balances the love triangle between French joie de vivre and German melancholy". In short, it is a “mature performance by a mature ensemble”.
Web links
- Andrea and Marie in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Andrea and Marie at filmportal.de
- Andrea and Marie at relevantfilm.de
- Pictures of the film on tvspielfilm.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Sabine Rückert : Keen on Life . In: Die Zeit , No. 40/1998.
- ↑ Daniela Pogade: Women in their own juice . In: Berliner Zeitung , April 6, 1998.
- ↑ Quoted from Daniela Pogade: Women in their own juice . In: Berliner Zeitung , April 6, 1998.
- ↑ Switch on . In: Der Spiegel , June 28, 1999.
- ↑ cf. tvspielfilm.de