Aventure de Catherine C.

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Movie
Original title Aventure de Catherine C.
Country of production France , Italy
original language French
Publishing year 1990
length 100 minutes
Rod
Director Pierre Beuchot
script Pierre Beuchot,
Catherine Breillat ,
Jean-Pierre Kremer
production Adriano Attala ,
Antoine Gannagé ,
Chantal Perrin ,
Daniele Pettinari
music Michel Portal
camera Willy Kurant
cut Françoise Collin
occupation

Aventure de Catherine C. (Eng .: "Adventure of Catherine C.") is a French - Italian film drama with Fanny Ardant and Hanna Schygulla from 1990. The literary model was the story The Adventure of Catherine Crachat ( Aventure de Catherine Crachat ) by Pierre Jean Jouve .

action

The film actress Catherine Crachat lives in Paris , where she fell madly in love with the mathematician Pierre Indemini. But due to Catherine's self-doubt, which she constantly tries to compensate with coquetry, the couple goes their separate ways again after a short time. After that, Catherine really falls into a crisis of meaning. During a film shoot in Vienna , Catherine met one of her admirers, the rich Baroness Fanny Hohenstein. They become friends and Catherine temporarily moves into Fanny's villa. Fanny has had numerous love affairs in her life, including with women, two of whom killed each other because of her. Now she regards Catherine as her latest prey.

Pierre finally arrives in Vienna and also falls into Fanny's network of desire. A ménage à trois develops . Fanny's vitality and her erotic desire contrast with Catherine's sense of shame. When Pierre is convinced that he and Catherine have to part again, Catherine returns to Paris, from where she writes him letters. When Pierre suddenly dies, he leaves behind numerous unsent letters that he addressed to Catherine. In an attempt to win Catherine for herself, Fanny takes possession of the letters. When the two women meet again, they have an argument in which Fanny shoots herself.

Catherine, who still longs for Pierre, becomes depressed. With the help of psychoanalysis , she tries with Dr. Leuwen to get over their inner emptiness. During their sessions, old memories of their childhood are awakened. She had once been sexually abused, which is why she had developed a strong ambivalence about herself and her body over the years. With the self-knowledge she has gained, she ultimately comes to terms with her past.

background

The story of Catherine Crachat was first published by the French author Pierre Jean Jouve in two novels, Hécate and Vagadu , in 1928 and 1931. It was consciously shaped by the teachings of psychoanalysis by Jouve, a follower of Sigmund Freud .

The film adaptation Aventure de Catherine C. premiered on August 29, 1990 in France . In Germany the film was not released.

literature

  • Pierre Jean Jouve : Aventure de Catherine Crachat . Mercure de France, Paris 1982, ISBN 2-715-20058-7 .
    • German translation: The adventures of Catherine Crachat . Luchterhand Literatur-Verlag, Munich 1995, 190 pages, ISBN 3-630-86861-4 (translated by Isabell Lorenz).

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