Pear cake with lavender
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Pear cake with lavender |
| Original title | Le goût des merveilles |
| Country of production | France |
| original language | French |
| Publishing year | 2015 |
| length | 100 minutes |
| Age rating |
FSK 0 JMK 0 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Eric Besnard |
| script | Eric Besnard |
| production |
Patrice Ledoux , Michel Seydoux |
| music | Christophe Julien |
| camera | Philippe Guilbert |
| cut | Yann Dedet |
| occupation | |
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Pear cake with lavender (original title: Le goût des merveilles ) is a French love story by Éric Besnard from 2015 . The film opened in German cinemas on March 10, 2016.
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Louise Legrand lives in Provence, is 37 years old and widowed, has two children and tries to keep her husband's farm with pear trees and lavender . However, she doesn't get along with the business. The cooperative is in arrears with the payment for the goods it has delivered. The bank is pushing to get the loan paid, so they advise taking out a mortgage on the house. Her neighbor Paul was a friend of her husband. He offers to buy a piece of land from her. He actually wants to merge the two farms and live with the young widow.
On the way back from the market, Louise hits a young man named Pierre with her station wagon and injures him slightly. Louise takes him to her house and takes care of him. It soon becomes clear that Pierre is out of touch; he has Asperger's Syndrome . In stressful situations, his perception narrows and he tries to escape. He marks various things with colored adhesive dots, because then he feels better; Louise's car has two points after a short time.
Pierre likes it with the Legrands. That night he sorted Louise's unopened business letters and tidied the kitchen. However, Louise says he can't stay and takes him back to the city where he lives in a small room behind a second-hand bookshop run by Jules. The latter tells Louise that he took Pierre in after his parents died and that Pierre came into conflict with the law some time ago when he hacked into the Defense Department's security system .
When Pierre learned from the Internet weather report that night frost was threatening the pear harvest, he rushed to the Legrands courtyard during the night and began setting up large wax lights for heating. Louise and the children wake up and help him. Louise's son Felix likes Pierre because he helps him with math homework and is good at playing computer games. Louise often argues with her adolescent daughter Emma. She secretly took a job as a waitress in the village pub against her mother's wishes. When Pierre Louise announced that he would speak to Emma, he located her mobile phone and followed the signal into the pub, but got stressed because of the noise in the pub, the confusing movements of many people and the twitching lights. He is asked by the host to leave the bar, but cannot move. Emma protects him from the host and breaks with him, also because she has had enough of the intrusive guests. At the fountain in front of the pub, Pierre hacks the pub's sprinkler system and lets Emma trigger it. After that, the party in the pub is quickly over.
The doctor Dr. Mélanie Ferenza was assigned to look after Pierre after the hack attack on the Ministry of Defense. In her opinion, Pierre is better accommodated in an institution than in the ten square meter adjoining room of the bookstore. She takes him to an institution where Jules visits him. Pierre doesn't talk to him, but stoically sticks colored dots on the walls of his room. Jules tells him how he met his own wife and tells him to give Louise a call even though he doesn't like phones.
Louise has meanwhile started pulling up the old trees on the site with a wheel loader , which she plans to sell to Paul to pay off her debts at the bank. Then Pierre appears and explains to her that the cooperative has just transferred the outstanding payments, although she does not yet know. In addition, according to his calculations, her farm could be profitable. While eating in the house with Jules and Dr. Ferenza offers Louise to keep Pierre with her in the yard. The children are for it too. Pierre, who has just come out of the bathroom where he was singing happily, also lifts his finger.
production
Scenes from the film were shot in the small town of Nyons in the south of France .
Awards
At the presentation of the German Gilde Film Prize at the Leipzig Film Art Fair (September 19-23 , 2016), pear cake with lavender competed for the prize for the best international production with the French contribution Frantz and Ewige Jugend from Italy.
Reviews
“Besnard addressed the subject of autism with ease and humor. Of the many facets of the disease, he focused on the over-sensitivity that makes his main character Pierre shy of people and at the same time makes him watch and study a flower or a ray of sunshine for hours. "
“With entertaining dialogues and a French country house flair, the warm summer comedy pleads for tolerance and understanding towards people who are 'different'. Socially critical tones are of course hidden in the romantic staging in favor of emotional cinema. "
Web links
- Pear cake with lavender in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Release certificate for pear cake with lavender . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry (PDF; test number: 157909 / K).
- ↑ Age rating for pear cake with lavender . Youth Media Commission .
- ↑ Shortlist for the Gilde Filmpreise 2016 announced at agkino.de, August 16, 2016 (accessed on August 22, 2016).
- ↑ femundo: A spring fairy tale for adults. Retrieved July 7, 2018 .
- ↑ Pear cake with lavender. Film service , accessed April 13, 2017 .