CRAZY - crazy life

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Movie
German title CRAZY - crazy life
Original title CRAZY
Country of production Canada
original language French
Publishing year 2005
length 127 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director Jean-Marc Vallée
script Français Boulay
Jean-Marc Vallée
production Pierre Even
Jean-Marc Vallée
music David Bowie
camera Pierre Mignot
cut Paul Jutras
occupation
synchronization

CRAZY is a Canadian fiction film from the director Jean-Marc Vallée with Marc-André Grondin , Michel Côté from 2005 . Vallée was involved in the script and production of the film.

action

The film depicts the life of the Beaulieu family from Québec , Canada over a course of around 20 years. Zachary, born on Christmas Eve 1960, guides us through the film. Due to his date of birth and a birthmark on the back of his head, he appears to be endowed with psychic powers. His mother Laurianne is certain that it is enough just to think of someone who has been injured so that the pain or bleeding go away - and the telephone in the Beaulieu house immediately rings non-stop. Father Gervais, who also fell in love with Zachary, doesn't really care about the religious hocus-pocus and instead tries to turn his son into an athlete or musician. In addition, it is his great hobby to pick up a microphone replacement at every celebration and sing along to the same song Emmenez-moi au bout de la terre by Charles Aznavour . The family is completed by the three older brothers Raymond, who is struggling with drug problems, Christian, a bookworm who devours every book and the sports fanatic Antoine; Yvan, the youngest, was born a few years after Zachary.

As Zachary grows up, he has problems finding his way in the rigid world, which is still heavily influenced by the Catholic Church, and in addition he finds it difficult to suppress his emerging homosexuality . But he cannot open up in his family either, since his homophobic father would not tolerate this. Thus, for years Zachary vacillates between his inclinations and the desire to please his father.

At Christian's wedding there is a scandal. A guest claims to have observed how Zachary kissed another man in the car and was “so gay”. His father confronts him. Zachary, who lives in a partnership with a woman, denies that something went wrong in the car, but admits that he wanted it to. His girlfriend, who is listening to the dialogue, turns away from him in astonishment.

Zachary then goes on a search for meaning and travels to Israel - his mother had always raved about it. He comes back to Canada when his brother Raymond is in the hospital due to an overdose and dies a little later. The father slowly tries to get used to the idea that Zachary is "different" in order not to lose another son.

background

The title of the film, CRAZY , is composed of the first letters of the five sons: Christian, Raymond, Antoine, Zachary and Yvan. In addition, one of the hits of the country singer Patsy Cline , of whom father Gervais is a big fan, is also called Crazy .

Émile Vallée, who plays the 6- to 8-year-old Zachary, is the son of director Jean-Marc Vallée.

The film was Canada's official nomination for an Oscar in 2006 for Best Foreign Language Film , but was not nominated.

Reviews

  • The lexicon of international films described the film as “very entertaining and sometimes also wistful” and as “an original family story and at the same time an apt description of the epoch” .
  • "Bittersweet story of growing up in the 70s and 80s, which inspires with depth, fine humor and great music." ( Cinema )
  • "Jean-Marc Vallée's multiple award-winning coming-of-age story 'CRAZY' is not only congenially told, it also reflects the self-discovery of the Canadian nation since the 1970s." ( Der Spiegel )
  • "The multi-award-winning work (...) leaves a strong impression overall because of the theme, the convincing acting and the cool film music." (Filmstarts.de, Jörn Schulz)
  • The Wiesbaden film evaluation agency gave the film the rating of Particularly Valuable. The reasoning in the FBW report states as follows: A dramaturgically diverse and lovingly staged family drama with occasional very amusing elements unfolds. (...) The great quality of the film is particularly in the details, in the many small observations about the behavior of the individual characters. (...) The 'fresh' faces of the mostly unknown actors in this country are impressive, all of whom shine with their acting performances.

Awards (selection)

Toronto International Film Festival 2005

  • Best Canadian Feature Film

European Film Award 2005

Genie Awards 2006

Genie Award nomination in the categories:

Prix ​​Jutra 2006

Prix ​​Jutra 2007

  • Film s'étant le plus illustré hors Québec

synchronization

The dubbing of the film was done by Studio Hamburg Synchron based on a dialogue book and directed by Thomas Crecelius.

role actor Voice actor
Gervais Beaulieu Michel Côté Michael Lott
Zachary Beaulieu (15-21 years) Marc-André Grondin Pyotr Olev
Laurianne Beaulieu Danielle Proulx Sabine Arnhold
Zachary Beaulieu (6–8 years) Émile Vallée Aaron Ruff
Raymond Beaulieu (22-28 years old) Pierre-Luc brilliant Jan-David Rönfeldt
Christian Beaulieu (24-30 years) Maxime Tremblay Tammo ruff
Antoine Beaulieu (21-27 years) Alex Gravel Patrick Bach

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ CRAZY - Crazy Life. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  2. ^ Cinema
  3. ↑ Der Spiegel, David Kleingers
  4. ↑ CRAZY - Crazy Life in the Filmbewertungsstelle Wiesbaden ( Memento of the original from September 28, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) 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.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.fbw-filme.de
  5. ↑ German synchronous index | Movies | CRAZY - crazy life. Accessed January 30, 2019 .