Men like it hot too!

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Movie
German title Men like it hot too!
Original title Pedale douce
Country of production France
original language French
Publishing year 1996
length 100 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director Gabriel Aghion
script Gabriel Aghion,
Patrick Timsit ,
Pierre Palmade
production Claudine Zidi
music Philippe Chopin ,
Hervé Masini
camera Fabio Conversi
cut Luc Barnier
occupation
synchronization
chronology

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Pédale dure

Men like it hot too! (Original title: Pédale douce ) is a French comedy film with Fanny Ardant from 1996, which was very successful in theaters in France.

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The homosexual Adrien is an employee in a bank where, apart from his colleague André, who is also gay, nobody suspects his sexual inclination. Adrien spends his evenings in the Parisian gay scene, where he is looking for the man of his life. For a business lunch with his boss Alexandre Agut, Adrien asks his platonic friend Eva to play his wife. Eva, who runs a restaurant that doubles as a gay club, finally lets herself be persuaded after initial hesitation to go with Adrien. When they arrive at Alexandre Agut's apartment, the married bank manager is immediately fascinated by the unconventional Eva. When they eat together, however, it comes to a scandal: Alexandre's ultra-conservative sister-in-law Claire slaps Eva when she defends transvestites . Eva then leaves the apartment; Alexandre runs after her and catches up with her in the stairwell. He wants to go out to dinner with her and kiss her goodbye.

Eva, who pretends to be the welfare worker and mother of one adopted and three biological children for Adrien's sake, meets with Alexandre in a restaurant and tries to find out to what extent he would approve if one of his employees turned out to be homosexual would. Meanwhile, Alexandre's wife Marie, who recently had her bosom done by a cosmetic surgeon, is feeling increasingly neglected. When she catches Alexandre in Eva's bar and finds a gay brochure in his jacket pocket, she begins to believe that her husband has become gay. Since she does not want to lose him, she is surprisingly tolerant in the following years.

After Adrien has been awarded an important project in his bank, he wants to celebrate his success in a discotheque. There Eva and Alexandre meet again. Alexandre climbs up to Eva on a raised platform and sleeps with her there while the other guests of the disco dance happily. Adrien does not understand that Eva has fallen in love with Alexandre and is ready to sell her restaurant for him. Jealously he makes sure that Alexandre gets spanked by a strong man in a darkroom . Eva reacts indignantly that Adrien does not allow her to love Alexandre. Adrien tries to apologize to her over the phone for his behavior, but Eva ignores his calls and temporarily leaves town. She goes to the funeral of her father, who she had long hated. In front of the cemetery, Alexandre is surprisingly waiting for them with a bouquet of flowers and they spend the following night in a hotel. Because he doesn't want her to give up her well-running restaurant for him, Eva believes the next morning that Alexandre doesn't really love her. When he receives a call from his office, Eva leaves the hotel disappointed. She goes to Adrien and makes up with him.

Marie, who is now firmly convinced that Alexandre has changed banks, hosts a gay party in their shared apartment. Adrien's colleague André has been fired and the party is supposed to cheer him up again. When Alexandre comes home, he confesses to Marie that he has fallen in love with Eva. Horrified that she is losing Alexandre not to a man but to another woman, Marie slaps him in the face and confesses that she lied about her alleged infertility. She simply didn't want a child and always took the pill. Overwhelmed by the situation, Alexandre packs his bags and leaves France - without realizing that Eva is pregnant by him. Only after a while does he return. In the meantime his child has been born and Adrien has devotedly played the surrogate father. Marie, who is meanwhile expecting a child from another man, has invited Alexandre to his son's baptism. It turns out that Eva and Alexandre are still in love, and they finally agree to raise their son together with Adrien.

background

Men like it hot too! , whose original French title Pédale Douce means something like "sweet fagot", is one of a series of relationship comedies about homosexuals that ran very successfully in theaters in the mid-1990s. This and films such as The Moving Man (1994), Echte Kerle (1996) or The Birdcage - A Paradise for Shrill Birds (1996) took the French comedy A Cage Full of Fools from 1978 as a model.

On March 27, 1996, the premiere of Men Like It Hot! held in France, where the comedy became the most successful French film of the year with more than four million viewers. In Germany, the film was first shown in cinemas on August 8, 1996, and released on video on February 10, 1997. In 2004 a sequel was created under the title Pédale dure , which has not yet been published in Germany. Michèle Laroque can be seen again in the role of Marie Hagutte.

Actress Fanny Ardant could also do men like it hot! celebrate a comeback after several years of appearing in mostly insignificant films. In addition to their role of Eva, she received the prestigious film award César as Best Actress . In 2000 she played again under the direction of Gabriel Aghion in Liebeslust und Freiheit , a satirical period film about the frivolous life of the French enlightener Denis Diderot .

Reviews

For the lexicon of international films, it was a "[e] staged comedy without accidents, partly miscast in the main roles, which derives its simple humor from the usual personalities of the genre". The effort to "bring some depth into the shallow events" failed. Prisma described the film as a “shrill, amusing but also exaggerated comedy about a triangular relationship between a woman, a straight person and a homosexual”. Aghion's film is a "more or less successful attempt to tie in with the French hit movie A Cage Full of Fools ".

"While gags, piquant dialogues and embarrassments rush through, the German viewer realizes that the Teutonic cinema jokes that he has been served for years are related to pedale douce like Leberkäs to goose liver pate," wrote Cinema . As champagne, the viewer is served "at this comedic feast [...] the tingling, exuberant Fanny Ardant", who, in the role of the club operator, "forms the radiant center of the relationship menu à la carte". After leaving the cinema “you are tipsy about their charisma and have had enough of laughing”.

Awards

At the 1997 César Awards , men like it hot too! Nominated for the César in six categories , including Patrick Timsit for Best Actor , Jacques Gamblin for Best Supporting Actor and Michèle Laroque for Best Supporting Actress . But only Fanny Ardant could assert herself as Best Actress against the competition, like Catherine Deneuve in Thieves of the Night . In the Best Screenplay category , Cédric Klapisch , Jean-Pierre Bacri and Agnès Jaoui ultimately won the Typical Family Award ! . In the Best Film category , Aghion's comedy had to surrender to the costume film Ridicule - Beaten by the ridiculousness of appearances , in which Ardant had also played.

German version

The German dubbing was created for the German premiere on August 8, 1996.

role actor Voice actor
Adrien Patrick Timsit Stefan Gossler
Eve Fanny Ardant Traudel Haas
Alexandre Agut Richard Berry Norbert Langer
André Lemoine Jacques Gamblin Johannes Berenz
Dr. Severine Christian Bujeau Reinhard Kuhnert

Soundtrack

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Gabriel Aghion, 44 ans, cinéaste. Après “Pédale douce”, il essaie, avec “le Libertin”, d'investir le comique libidinal. La quadrature du sexe . In: Liberation , March 15, 2000.
  2. ↑ Men like it hot too! In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  3. ↑ cf. prisma.de
  4. ↑ cf. cinema.de
  5. ↑ Men like it hot too! In: synchronkartei.de. German dubbing file , accessed on March 2, 2017 .