Coeur Animal
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Cœur Animal TV title: The animal in my heart |
| Original title | Coeur animal |
| Country of production | Switzerland |
| original language | French |
| Publishing year | 2009 |
| length | 95 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 14 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Séverine Cornamusaz |
| script | Séverine Cornamusaz, Marcel Beaulieu |
| production |
Xavier Grin , Sandrine Valageas , Pascal Verroust |
| music | Evgueni Galperine |
| camera | Carlo Varini |
| cut | Daniel Gibel |
| occupation | |
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Cœur Animal (Original title: Coeur animal , TV title: The animal in my heart ) is a Swiss feature film from 2009. Directed by Séverine Cornamusaz , who also wrote the screenplay based on the novel Rapport aux bêtes ( German From because of the Animals ) by Noëlle Revaz . The film won the Swiss Film Award for Best Film and Best Actor in 2010 and had its premiere in August 2009 at the World Film Festival in Montreal .
action
The mountain farmer Paul runs the remote farm of his late father together with his wife Rosine. He makes her work hard for him and treats her lovelessly. When Raisin can no longer work because of a stomach ache, he thinks she is pregnant. He hires the Spanish worker Eusebio to help. His open and talkative nature changes life on the alp and even arouses jealousy in Paul. When he thinks his wife is cheating on him with Eusebio, he beats her to hospital.
reception
The TV broadcaster Arte judged that the film penetrated "deeply into the consciousness of a man who is unable to express his feelings through his actions". At first, "Paul seems like a monster, a person who arouses incomprehension and disgust in the audience through their actions". In the course of the film, however, Cornamusaz succeeds in making "his inner struggle and his inability to accept human closeness" understandable for the viewer. The film magazine Cinema described the film as a “rock-hard alpine drama with thoroughly poetic moments”. However, it was criticized that little was explained, "why the change of the archaic main character in the end worked so hard". In conclusion, it says: “A work full of harshness, sadness and taciturnity that has a problem: It's just not thrilling.” The film-dienst saw a “visually stunning first work that tells the story of a painful becoming human”. Although the film is "not always entirely psychologically conclusive", it does convey "impressively that the farmer's inhuman attitude results from his fear of closeness and tenderness".
Awards
The film won the Swiss Film Award in 2010 in the categories of Best Fiction Film (for Séverine Cornamusaz) and Best Actor (for Antonio Buíl). In addition, in 2009 the film received the Ecumenical Jury Prize , the FIPRESCI Prize and an honorable mention from the international jury for a remarkable film with outstanding achievements at the Mannheim-Heidelberg International Film Festival .
Web links
- Coeur Animal in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Cœur Animal at swissfilms.ch
- The animal in my heart in the online film database
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e Cœur Animal. film service , accessed August 18, 2014 .
- ↑ The animal in my heart. (No longer available online.) Arte , November 21, 2011, archived from the original on August 19, 2014 ; Retrieved August 18, 2014 . 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.
- ↑ The animal in my heart. Cinema , accessed August 18, 2014 .
- ↑ a b Website on the Swiss Film Prize 2010 at Swiss Films, accessed on April 26, 2013
- ↑ The Animal in My Heart (2009) Awards. Internet Movie Database , accessed August 18, 2014 .
