Angèle and Tony
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| German title | Angèle and Tony |
| Original title | Angèle and Tony |
| Country of production | France |
| original language | French |
| Publishing year | 2010 |
| length | 87 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 6 |
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| Director | Alix Delaporte |
| script | Alix Delaporte |
| production | Hélène Cases |
| music | Mathieu Maestracci |
| camera | Claire Mathon |
| cut | Louise Decelle |
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Angel & Tony is a French feature film from director and screenwriter Alix Delaporte from the year 2010 .
action
The 27-year-old Angèle meets the fisherman Tony through a newspaper advertisement. The withdrawn , thoughtful man lives on the rough Normandy coast, where he still lives with his mother Myriam after his father's death. She sells the fish he catches in the sea with his cutter. Tony's brother Ryan, on the other hand, is obsessed with the idea of finding his father, who has drowned in the sea, even after six months with the help of divers. Both are also active to protest against the government's high catch quotas, which is why Ryan in particular repeatedly clashes with the police. Tony quickly realizes that the beautiful city dweller Angèle does not belong on the coast and that he is far too old for her. He sends her away, but first offers her to help with the sale of the family business.
Tony doesn't know Angèle's past: she was in prison for two years for being held responsible for the death of her husband, whom she describes as an accident. She is currently on parole. Her son Yohan is nine years old and has not seen his mother for two years. He grows up with Angèles in-laws, who would like to have custody of Yohan. Angèle, however, hopes to regain contact and access to her son, which requires a stable family situation. She hides all of this from Tony when she returns to him. She wants to work with the family and because she lives in a home in town, she wants to live with Tony and his mother. At first Angèle tries to seduce Tony brusquely, but he rejects her. Both withdraw to the colleague level. Angèle is learning slowly, she has no idea about fish, but Tony remains persistent and, in the end, Angèle helps out in the day-to-day sales business. She receives an employment contract from Tony and soon Tony and Angèle get closer. Angèle is also slowly making contact with the villagers. She soon dreams of marriage and tells her probation officer that she will marry Tony. This would increase their chances of being awarded Yohan in a custody battle.
Myriam is not very enthusiastic about the prospect of seeing her son with a woman who is actually a stranger to her. He says that if Angèle had to go, he would also go. The next day, Angèle notices that her belongings have been ransacked. She confronts Myriam, who admits she now knows about the suspended sentence and the child. Angèle wants to pack her things and go, but Myriam shows her that she should stay. During a conversation with the family judge who will decide on Yohan's future, Angèle admits a little later that she invented the wedding. Tony is just her employer. A little later he, in turn, confesses to her that he wants to live with her, and Angèle is happy. A little later she watches Yohan in a playground and takes her son with her. She shows him Tony's house and the animals and introduces him to Tony a little later. He's surprised, he didn't know anything about the child. He asks Yohan where he lives and why he is not living with his mother, and finds out that Angèle was in prison. He is disappointed that Angèle has withheld the truth from him, but realizes how important her son is to her. They both decide to actually get married.
At the custody hearing in court a few days later, Angèle interrupted the interviews shortly after they began. She knows that it is too early for Yohan to decide on her as a mother, he has not been able to see her for too long. Shortly afterwards, Tony and Angèle's wedding takes place. Angèle's father-in-law appears with Yohan in front of the town hall. He decided of his own free will to come to his mother. The father-in-law, in turn, brought him to her without the knowledge of his wife, who is critical of Angèle. Yohan wants to know if it hurts when a cancer pinches. Tony and Angèle then leave the party in front of the town hall and drive to the coast. They look for crabs in the mud and Yohan can answer his question himself. For the first time, mother and son hug each other again and Angèle is happy.
production
Angèle and Tony was filmed in Caen , Creully , Lisieux , Port-en-Bessin-Huppain , Pont-l'Évêque and Mairie . Individual locations were the Saint-André church in Port-en-Bessin-Huppain and the town hall in Creully as the location of the wedding scene.
After two short films, it was Alix Delaporte's feature film debut. She had previously worked with leading actress Clotilde Hesme on a short film. Hesme and lead actor Grégory Gadebois knew each other from studying together at the conservatory. The setting, the rugged Normandy coast, was known to Delaporte from her childhood. Her mother and grandmother came from near Port-en-Bessin , where Delaporte often spent her holidays.
The film premiered as part of the International Critics' Week at the Venice International Film Festival in 2010 . The film was released in French cinemas on January 26, 2011, was released in Swiss cinemas for the first time in July 2011 and was also shown in German cinemas on August 4, 2011. The film was released on DVD in December 2011.
criticism
The film-dienst wrote that the film "in clear, calm images and close to its strong actors [...] a moving story about the power of love [unfolds]" and is also romantic, but never banal, which is mainly due to the “well-measured, concentrated use of the cinematic narrative” succeeds. The Spiegel called Angèle and Tony a “unadorned love story that doesn't allow itself any arabesques, but rather steers towards its goal just as determinedly as its heroine.” The film dispenses with superfluous words and the director instead uses “looks and gestures, physical presence and ultimately scenes mutual silence in which the bodies find each other in a mésalliance cordiale . ”For Cinema it was a“ breathtaking film […] that develops its story in calm, unsentimental images ”and a“ grandiose debut film that lingers for a long time ”.
Awards
Angèle and Tony won the Prix Michel d'Ornano at the 2010 Deauville Film Festival. The film received two awards and one nomination at the César 2012 : Clothilde Hesme was honored as best young actress and Grégory Gadebois received the award as best young actor . Alix Delaporte was also nominated in the Best First Work category and won an Étoiles d'Or in 2012 for best first work.
Web links
- Angèle and Tony in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Angèle and Tony press release (PDF; 3.7 MB)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Interview with Alix Delaporte on koolfilm.de (PDF; 3.7 MB).
- ↑ Angèle and Tony. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ↑ Jörg Schöning: love film "Angèle and Tony": Fischer meets femme fatale . spiegel-online, August 6, 2011.
- ↑ cinema.de