Barbaric wedding
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Barbaric wedding |
| Original title | Les Noces barbarous |
| Country of production | Belgium , France |
| original language | French |
| Publishing year | 1987 |
| length | 99 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Marion Hansel |
| script | Marion Hansel |
| production | Marion Hansel |
| music | Frédéric Devreese |
| camera | Walther van den Ende |
| cut | Susana Rossberg |
| occupation | |
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Barbaric Wedding (original title: Les Noces barbarians ) is a Belgian-French film drama by Marion Hänsel from 1987. A novel by Yann Queffélec served as a literary model . The film premiered in France on November 25, 1987.
action
14-year-old Nicole meets an American soldier named William in the bar. After a few meetings with his parents, he promises that he will marry Nicole and that he will live with Nicole on his ranch after the troop has been transferred. However, William is a police dodger who actually works as a night watchman for a parking garage in the Bronx , is married and has a son. Nicole and her parents don't know anything about it. William learns that his camp is about to be closed and asks Nicole to spend the night with him. The 14-year-old sneaks out of her parents' house at night and runs to the soldier who is waiting for her in a car. In a drunk state, he drives her to the camp, where first he and then others rape the 14-year-old. As a result, Nicole becomes pregnant, to which her father reacts very negatively. The born child is given the name of a passing fishing trawler - Ludovic, or “Ludo” for short.
At the age of three, Ludo is placed with Nanette, a cousin of Nicole. A year later Nicole visits her son for the first time, but ignores him. During the night Ludo runs away, is picked up by the police and brought back. When he tries to follow his mother into the house, she pushes him back, whereupon he bangs his head and passes out. Ludo is then placed in the attic of Nanette's house, where he is provided with food by Nicole and her mother.
One day Nicole meets the widower Micho, a mechanic and honorary piano player, and his son Tatav. Micho and Nicole get married and Micho takes Ludo in with him. Micho's son Tatav is jealous of Ludo and doesn't like Nicole. The relationship between Nicole and Ludo does not improve even after their wedding to Micho. Ludo tries to win Nicole's affection by giving her presents, but she continues to either ignore or abuse her. When Ludo was 13 years old, Nicole tried to persuade Micho to send Ludo away because his presence was a constant reminder of the rape in which he was conceived. After a while, Micho gives in and sends Ludo to a home for Debile that is run by his cousin Hélène Radkoff. There he is visited once by Micho and Tatav, but never by Nicole.
Three years later, Ludo is caught by Hélène Radkoff kissing a girl. Ludo is said to be deported to a psychiatric institution. On the same night, Ludo accidentally burns a Christmas crib and escapes the institution. He finds shelter in an old shipwreck. The next day, Ludo takes a long walk and discovers Micho's house. When he arrives at the house, he sees his mother being seduced by a strange man. He writes a few lines for her on a bag.
Hélène Radkoff has called the police in the meantime and is still looking for Ludo. To lure Ludo out of his hiding place, she asks Nicole to call for him. When Ludo hears the calls, he comes out of his hiding place, mistakenly assuming that his mother loves him after all. As a result, there is another argument between the two, in which Ludo accuses his mother of never having visited him and Nicole rejects her son again. Ludo strangles his mother, pulls her corpse into the water and swims with her towards the open sea.
criticism
The lexicon of the international film describes Barbarische Hochzeit as "an extremely intensely staged, discussion-worthy drama about feelings, the denial of which leads to existential need". The film was "excellently played and psychologically credible, but occasionally tried too hard to achieve metaphorical condensation".
Awards
The film won the Grand Prix at the first Barcelona International Film Festival in 1987. In 1988 Marianne Basler received the Joseph Plateau Prize for best Belgian actress for her performance.
literature
- Yann Queffélec: Barbaric Wedding . Suhrkamp, Frankfurt / M. 2001, ISBN 3-518-39727-3 .
Web links
- Barbaric wedding in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Pictures of the film on cinema.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Barbaric Wedding. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ↑ cf. nytimes.com