Chevalier (film)
| Movie | |
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| German title | Chevalier |
| Original title | Chevalier |
| Country of production | Greece |
| original language | Greek |
| Publishing year | 2015 |
| length | 104 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 6 |
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| Director | Athina Rachel Tsangari |
| script | Efthimis Filippou, Athina Rachel Tsangari |
| production | Maria Hatzakou, Athina Rachel Tsangari |
| camera | Christos Karamanis |
| cut | Matt Johnson, Yorgos Mavropsaridis |
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Chevalier is a Greek comedy directed by Athina Rachel Tsangari . The film plays with elements of the buddy film and can be assigned to a cinema that is referred to by the press as Greek New Wave . Chevalier is Tsangari's third feature film and was produced by her own production company, Haos Film.
action
In the middle of the Aegean Sea , during a fishing trip on the doctor's luxury yacht, six men decide to play a game out of boredom. But it's not just any game. Everything the men do should be evaluated to see which of them is the "best at all". From then on, the men no longer put their small, black notebooks down and evaluate everything they do: Sleep positions are analyzed, blood values compared, erectile function evaluated and Ikea shelves put together competitively. During this game, the ideal male images of men and their friendships become more and more fragile. Christos struggles with his aging body, the doctor with old age, Josef Nikolau with his declining erectile function, Yannis with his job and his relationship and his brother Dimitris doesn't really want to fit into the men's group. The fishing friends are slowly turning into bitter competitors. But at the end of the journey, when the game is over, only one should be chosen as the “best of all”. The win: a signet ring that is worn on the little finger, the "Chevalier" .
background
The film plays with the popular genre of buddy comedy , but instead of the usual two, puts six protagonists at the center of its narrative. Chevalier parodies the genre through the absurd competition of men and at the same time opens an empathic perspective on aging men in the midst of a "crisis of masculinity". On the film poster and the official film page, the film is aptly referred to as "buddy-movie without the buddies". As in Attenberg , the director deals with strange human behavior in situations that have the character of social experiments. Her films are heavily influenced by David Attenborough's animal films and anthropology .
Chevalier celebrated its world premiere in 2015 at the Locarno Film Festival , where the film took part in the official competition and was nominated for the Golden Leopard .
criticism
The FAS certifies Tsangari's extremely smart staging and states: "She neither has to show the individual competitions in full, nor does she have to explain the rules, some interludes are only worth a brief, pointed scene. [...] So she escapes the breathless one Fixation, she looks on in amusement instead of panting afterwards, and this fragmented narration also gives rise to the sarcastic joke of the film [...] "
In the time writes Georg Seeßlen : "You can watch Chevalier grandiose comedy about men on the edge of sociopathy, the men's counterpart to Tsangaris last film Attenberg [...] as a shadow to the Greek plight or as a grim statement about the state of European Societies. ”He also remarks:“ The grandiose ensemble of actors creates a perfect equivalence in closeness and distance, horror and grotesque. When the characters disappear into the night at the end, return to their professions, their families, their relegation struggles, their frauds, one thing is for sure not: the desire to follow them. "
The magazine Konkret writes about Chevalier: "After her anthropological studies in Attenberg, Tsangari now dissects especially male behavior very aptly." The reviewer also notes that she was completely convinced of the quality of the film by the goofy behavior of the male critics.
Awards
- BFI London International Film Festival , Great Britain (BFI Best Film Award)
- Sarajewo Film Festival , Kosovo ("Heart of Sarajevo", award for "Best Actor" for the entire cast)
- International Film Festival Thessaloniki , Greece (Audience Award)
Web links
- Chevalier in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Chevalier on the website of the German distributor Rapid Eye Movies
- Chevalier on the Haos Film website
- Contribution by Arte Tracks
Individual evidence
- ↑ Steve Rose: Attenberg, Dogtooth and the weird wave of Greek cinema . In: The Guardian . August 26, 2011, ISSN 0261-3077 ( theguardian.com [accessed April 12, 2016]).
- ↑ HOME PAGE. In: haosfilm.com. Retrieved April 12, 2016 .
- ↑ Table of contents of the rental
- ↑ Table of contents and staff on the website of the production company
- ↑ Walter Hollstein: The crisis of masculinity. Retrieved April 12, 2016 .
- ↑ Chevalier ( English ) haosfilm.com. Retrieved December 15, 2016.
- ↑ By Zeus! The best films currently come from Greece . tracks.arte.tv. March 6, 2016. Retrieved December 15, 2016.
- ↑ Peter Körte: Men are lonely fighters. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung , April 17, 2016
- ↑ Georg Seeßlen: "Chevalier": didactic piece with sea urchins . In: The time . April 22, 2016, ISSN 0044-2070 ( zeit.de [accessed April 22, 2016]).
- ^ Marit Hofmann: Chevalier. In: Konkret 4/2016, p. 48.
- ^ Marit Hofmann: Chevalier. In: Konkret 4/2016, p. 48.