Bonjour Sagan
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Bonjour Sagan |
| Original title | Sagan |
| Country of production | France |
| original language | French |
| Publishing year | 2008 |
| length | 120 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Diane Kurys |
| script | Diane Kurys Claire Lemaréchal Martine Moriconi |
| production | Diane Kurys |
| music | Armand Amar |
| camera | Michel Abramowicz |
| cut | Sylvie Gadmer |
| occupation | |
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Sagan is a French film biography of Diane Kurys from the year 2008 .
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During the holidays, Françoise Quoirez wrote a novel with the knowledge of her friends, but without letting her family know. In fact, Bonjour tristesse was published by Julliard in 1954. At her father's request, she published it under the stage name Françoise Sagan. The novel becomes a scandal, but it sells well. Françoise Sagan received the Prix de la Critique for her debut novel and became a star of the literary scene overnight. She loves excess and risk and lives out the success with her clique. Her brother Jacques and her confidants Bernard Frank and Jacques Chazot belong to her. With them she gambled away her fortune in the casino, only to win several million francs at the last moment. With the money she buys a villa where Sarah Bernhardt is said to have once lived. She vows never to sell the house.
The success of her work Bonjour Tristesse is international and so she goes on a book tour to the United States. At a book signing she met the French publisher Guy Schoeller , who admired her deeply and showed her America. He follows her to France. Françoise Sagan writes new novels, but begins to suffer from the fact that critics consider the value of her literary work low. When her brother criticizes her for missing her personality in her latest work, she is shocked. She goes on a car ride with her friends and strays off the road without concentrating. In the accident, she is so badly injured that her life is in danger. Guy visits her at the bedside and promises to marry her. He keeps his word, but the marriage breaks up after a short time. Françoise Sagan processes the pain about this in new works and at a book signing meets the beautiful Paola, who soon belongs to a close circle of friends. She is also there when Françoise Sagan meets the American Robert James Westhoff, known as "Bob". He is also fond of men, but marries Françoise Sagan and they have a child, son Denis, together. The marriage falls apart and Denis grows up with his mother, who, however, can hardly establish contact with her child. Her circle of friends changes when the former model Peggy moves in with her. She becomes her new close confidante and roommate. Françoise Sagan has had numerous problems over time: She has been a drug addict since her car accident, she was given strong painkillers for many months of recovery, she has run out of money and writes block. Luck helps her again: with the last of her money, she buys a racehorse that proves to be successful.
Gallimard shows interest in the author Françoise Sagan and she signs a contract that obliges her to write an autobiography. At the same time she works on other works, drinks alcohol and takes cocaine . One day she collapses and is found passed out by Peggy. She is admitted to the hospital, where she goes on alcohol withdrawal. In the hospital, she learns that her father has died. Some time after her withdrawal, she meets the artist Astrid, who is married to a millionaire, at a party. Astrid woos Françoise Sagan, which makes Peggy jealous. Françoise Sagan is now taking drugs more and more often and has a dealer visit her in public. Her friends are increasingly turning away from her and her brother no longer sees any opportunity to help Françoise Sagan. When she wants to go on winter vacation with Peggy, she is surprised by a raid. The drug investigators find cocaine on her and she has to pay a heavy fine.
Françoise Sagan lives with Peggy, who has not told her for half a year that she is seriously ill. Before Peggy, she always claims that the doctor has rated her examination results positively. It is only when Peggy is admitted to the hospital that she learns how things really are. While Françoise Sagan's condition worsens due to her drug addiction, Peggy dies in the hospital. Françoise Sagan collapses. She withdraws to Astrid, where she tries to get off the drugs.
A fire damaged Françoise Sagan's house. She can only finance the renovation through unfair methods. She now lives with Astrid and tries to persuade her former friend Bernard to move in, but he knows that Astrid can't stand him. Over the years, Françoise Sagan's debts have become overwhelming and she has to sell her house. It is auctioned and Astrid, who is now a wealthy widow, buys it to leave it to Françoise Sagan. Nevertheless, she is now in charge of the house, stipulates that Françoise Sagan must not receive any visitors in her absence and treats the pets better than the formerly successful writer, who is marked by illness. When Astrid has to travel because of her inheritance matters, Françoise Sagan stays behind with the housekeeper Ms. Lebreton. She feels bad and is taken to the hospital, where she dies in the presence of Ms. Lebreton. Shortly before, she had refused to see her son.
production
Bonjour Sagan was shot in Paris and the Calvados department . The film project was originally designed as a production of France 2 for television and was to appear as a two-part series with a total length of 180 minutes. However, Luc Besson also acquired the rights for a theatrical release and shortened the film by an hour for it. Before being broadcast on television on September 30th and October 1st, 2008, the film was released in French cinemas on June 11th, 2008. On January 1, 2009 Bonjour Sagan was also shown in German cinemas and was released on DVD on November 6, 2009. Arte showed the two-part dubbed version on German television on August 27, 2010. The parts were titled A charming little monster (part 1) and bruises on the soul (part 2).
synchronization
| role | actor | Dubbed version cinema | Dubbed version television |
|---|---|---|---|
| Françoise Sagan | Sylvie Testud | Victoria Storm | Sabine Falkenberg |
| Astrid | Arielle Dombasle | - | Susanne Schwab |
| Bernard Frank | Lionel Abelanski | - | Olaf Reichmann |
| Jacques Chazot | Pierre Palmade | - | Hans Hohlbein |
| Jacques Quoirez | Guillaume Gallienne | - | Norman Matt |
| Peggy Roche | Jeanne Balibar | - | Susanne von Medvey |
| Madame Bartoli | Silvie Laguna | Heidrun Bartholomäus | Rita Engelmann |
| Madame Lebreton | Chantal Neuwirth | Regina Lemnitz | Evelyn Meyka |
| Robert Westhoff | William Miller | Frank Schaff | Robert Lyons |
criticism
Der Spiegel called Sagan a "tiresome superficial imaging of 50 years Greed and melancholy of Star writer Francoise Sagan to be also recognized here as a drug-addicted hedonist and capricious rebel, but rather annoying as eternal, petulant Society Girlie." The filmdienst praised the convincing and credible play Testuds, but called the film itself "conventionally staged ..." and found that the film "focuses on the externally tangible key data of an eventful life, without conveying deeper insights into the literary creative process."
Awards
Bonjour Sagan received three César nominations in 2009 : Sylvie Testud was nominated for Best Actress , Jeanne Balibar for Best Supporting Actress and Nathalie du Roscoät for Best Costumes .
Web links
- Sagan in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ See Bonjour Sagan on arte.tv ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Bonjour Sagan. In: synchronkartei.de. German dubbing file , accessed on March 2, 2017 .
- ↑ Bonjour Sagan. In: synchronkartei.de. German dubbing file , accessed on March 2, 2017 .
- ^ New films in January: Bonjour Sagan . In: Der Spiegel , No. 1, 2009, p. 40.
- ↑ Bonjour Sagan. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
