Barbecue (film)
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German title | barbecue |
Original title | barbecue |
Country of production | France |
original language | French |
Publishing year | 2014 |
length | 98 minutes |
Age rating | FSK 0 |
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Director | Eric Lavaine |
script | Éric Lavaine, Héctor Cabello Reyes |
production | François Cornuau, Vincent Roget |
music | Gregory Louis, Romain Tranchart |
camera | François Hernandez |
cut | Vincent Zuffranieri |
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Barbecue is a 2014 French comedy film directed by Éric Lavaine .
action
Antoine Chevalier, who is almost 50 years old, lives a life in Lyon that is boring from his own point of view: He has long been married to Véro, a doctor who is on call on a regular basis. He finds no fulfillment in his job and also has to work with his father as a superior. Antoine is very careful to live healthy, he eats healthily, does not smoke and does regular exercise. He likes to flirt with young, attractive women and occasionally meet them on dates.
Things change when Antoine suffers a heart attack at a running event. He decides to change the life he has lived with caution, quits his job and, contrary to medical advice, begins to eat hearty food, alcohol and tobacco.
Together with the befriended couples Baptiste and Olivia, Yves and Laure, Laurent and Nathalie and the single Jean-Mich, Antoine and Véro spend their summer vacation in a rented house in Vigan . The clique experienced two weeks together with good food, plenty of wine and drugs. Baptiste and Olivia, who are separated, try to deal with their situation and jealousy. Laurent hides his professional and financial problems from his wife Nathalie and his friends. Antoine feels annoyed by Yves and his stories, which he also expresses, Jean-Mich also experiences Antoine's direct criticism on his own body. Antoine also learns that his wife Véro has a relationship with a doctor colleague. The already tense situation within the clique culminates in a verbal outburst of Antoine's circulatory collapse.
After returning to Lyon, all ties to Antoine's friends seem to have broken, and his marriage to Véro is pending. It doesn't take long until he gets back in touch with his friends and he is benevolently accepted back into the clique. Antoine decides to be more indulgent not only to his friends but also to his wife and is reconciled with Véro.
production
The German synchronization was carried out by Hermes Synchron GmbH under the direction of Jürgen Wilhelm, who was responsible for the script and directing.
actor | role | German dubbing voice |
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Lambert Wilson | Antoine Chevalier | Bernd Vollbrecht |
Franck Dubosc | Baptiste | Nicolas Boell |
Florence Foresti | Olivia | Peggy Sander |
Guillaume de Tonquédec | Yves | Lutz Schnell |
Lionel Abelanski | Laurent | Uwe Büschken |
Jérôme Commandeur | Jean-Me | Marius Clarén |
Sophie Duez | Véronique "Véro" Chevalier | Heath Domanowski |
Lysiane Meis | Laure | Kathrin Zimmermann |
Valérie Crouzet | Nathalie | Ute Noack |
The French premiere of the film took place on April 8, 2014 in Lyon. In Germany, the film was shown in cinemas from August 6, 2015.
criticism
Overall, the reviews of the film are below average. Cinema.de praises the French touch of the film with the words “Typically French, staged with a light hand and a lot of oh la la.” Wolfgang Hamdorf from Filmdienst.de, on the other hand, specifies as follows: “Shot in wonderful landscapes, with an ensemble of actors that in many moments is very funny, but the film still doesn't get going. What could have become an exciting, humorous drama about a life crisis around 50, about the monotony of the upper middle class in the French provinces, fails due to penetrating complacency and pleasing puns, without ever reaching any kind of psychological tension. ”Particularly critical tones regarding the lack of depth of the film also come from Martin Beck on Kino-zeit.de: "The search for the meaning of life light, always nice within the framework of mainstream sprinkling with a manageable distance to the Sunday ZDF Herzkino."
Web links
- Barbecue in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Official page for the film
Individual evidence
- ↑ Release certificate for barbecue . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , July 2015 (PDF; test number: 153 175 K).
- ↑ German synchronous index: German synchronous index | Movies | Barbecue. Retrieved April 30, 2017 .
- ↑ Film starts: Barbecue. Retrieved April 30, 2017 .
- ↑ CINEMA Online: Barbecue . In: CINEMA Online . ( cinema.de [accessed April 30, 2017]).
- ↑ Barbecue. Retrieved April 30, 2017 .
- ↑ Barbecue. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on February 1, 2017 ; accessed on April 30, 2017 (English). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.