To what we love

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Movie
German title To what we love
Original title À nos amours
Country of production France
original language French
Publishing year 1983
length 102 minutes
Rod
Director Maurice Pialat
script Arlette Langmann
Maurice Pialat
production Daniel Toscan du Plantier
music Klaus Nomi : The Cold Song ( Henry Purcell )
camera Jacques Loiseleux
cut Valérie Condroyer
Sophie Coussein
Yann Dedet
occupation

On What We Love is a 1983 French film (social drama ) directed by Maurice Pialat .

action

Suzanne is 16 years old and spends her summer holidays with friends at summer camp. Here she is rehearsing Do not Play with the love of Alfred de Musset one. Her older brother goes on a boat trip with her and thinks she is well protected on site. Suzanne escapes from the holiday camp time and again and secretly meets with her friend Luc, with whom she never sleeps. In the evening while dancing, she met an American whom she hardly knew, but with whom she slept that same night. In the morning she feels guilty about Luc and is amazed that the American pretends not to know her. The holidays will soon be over. Suzanne lives at home again, where her father processes furs. Her brother Robert helps him, but actually prefers to write. The father thinks that Robert has talent.

Luc spontaneously separates from Suzanne, who quickly comforts herself with the boy Bernard. She goes out and sleeps with him while telling her family that she's going to the movies with friends. When she returns home after midnight, her father is still awake. Both talk to each other, so Suzanne not only learns that her father has long known about their love affair, but also that he will leave the family because he has a lover. Shortly afterwards, Suzanne's mother and brother also know that the father is leaving the family.

Luc wants to get back with Suzanne, but she explains to him that she can never sleep with him and that he should leave her alone. Robert has taken over the dominant position in the family, especially since the mother has become very unstable after the father's departure and threatens suicide. Suzanne's increasingly rebellious and repellent manner and the conflicts that arise with her brother, who wants to prevent her casual lifestyle by all means, place an immense burden on the family. Robert beats his sister more and more often to protect his mother from her and her hatred. Suzanne reacts in her own way, staying away from home and going out to partying with friends. After a family quarrel has escalated, Suzanne explains that she wants to go to boarding school again, as she used to, because she can't stand living with her mother. The love carousel keeps turning, so Suzanne's friend Anne meets Luc, while Suzanne finds a new friend in Jean-Pierre. She is more serious about him. Although she doesn't love him either, and like all previous friends, possibly cannot love him at all, they both marry after a while. Six months after the wedding, Robert and his wife, mother and other family friends are both in the apartment when suddenly the father appears and begins to have the apartment measured. He wants to sell her. A family confrontation ensues, in the course of which Suzanne takes the side of her father. It also becomes clear that, unlike the rest of the family, Suzanne never broke with her father, but visited him regularly. The mother expels the father from the apartment.

Some time later, Suzanne visits her father. She has a suitcase with her and tells him that she is going to San Diego for several months . She is not accompanied by her husband, but by her friend Michel. The father advises her to stay in San Diego. He gets on the bus while Suzanne gets on the plane with Michel. Suzanne doesn't look happy even high in the clouds.

production

What we love was filmed in Paris and Hyères , among others . The film was released in French cinemas on November 16, 1983 and screened at the 1984 Berlinale in February 1984 . The film did not appear in German cinemas, but was shown for the first time on July 7, 1986 on ZDF .

The Cold Song by Henry Purcell can be heard several times in the film ; the title will be sung by Klaus Nomi . It was one of the first films by Sandrine Bonnaire, who was 16 years old at the time of premiere.

criticism

For the film service , Auf das What wir liebe was “a portrait of an adolescent that is worthy of discussion in terms of form and content, and whose feelings are anything but simplified by the new moral concepts.” However, the film remains on the surface and gets lost in it "Pseudophilosophical ambiguity". For Cinema , the film was a "painfully intense work on dysfunctional relationships [...] rough and confrontational".

Awards

In 1983, Maurice Pialat won the Louis Delluc Prize for What we love . The film ran in 1984 at the Berlinale in the competition for the Golden Bear and won the César in the category Best Film in the same year . Sandrine Bonnaire was also awarded a César in the Best Young Actress category. Maurice Pialat received a César nomination in the category Best Director . The film was nominated for a Gold Hugo in 1984 at the Chicago International Film Festival .

literature

  • L'Avant-Scène Cinéma , No. 621 from March 2015: À Nos Amours - Un Film de Maurice Pialat - Découpage intégral, dialogues et Dossier . ISBN 978-2-84725-116-6 .
  • Jörg Becker: Das Licht des Nordens , in: Filmkritik Heft 3–4 / 1984.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. To what we love. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  2. See cinema.de