Crash test Aglaé
| Movie | |
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| German title | Crash test Aglaé |
| Original title | Crash test Aglaé |
| Country of production | France |
| original language | French |
| Publishing year | 2017 |
| length | 85 minutes |
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| Director | Eric Gravel |
| script | Eric Gravel |
| production | Nicolas Sanfaute |
| music | Jean-Michel Pigeon |
| camera | Gilles Piquard |
| cut | Reynald Bertrand |
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Crash Test Aglaé is a 2017 French comedy film. Director and screenwriter is Éric Gravel .
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Aglaé, Liette and Marcelle work in a French car factory. The introverted, cricket-loving Aglaé goes into her work in the crash tests department . One day the workers at the plant are informed that the plant is about to be closed; the work is to be carried out in a newly built plant in India in the future. For legal reasons, the company offers its employees the possibility of continuing their employment in India, but does not expect anyone to want to move there. Aglaé, for whom work in the crash test laboratory is an important part of their life, accepts the offer; Liette and Marcelle join her for different reasons. With this step, the women turn management and unions against them, and any further support in the form of e.g. B. They are denied flight tickets. Since they cannot afford tickets themselves, the three women decide to set off for India in Marcelle's decrepit small car.
The trio makes a detour via Frankfurt to visit Aglaé's father Spencer. Only his ex-wife Sigrun, who was abandoned by Spencer, still lives in his neglected house. In the evening Sigrun and Marcelle get closer. The French woman decides to stay in Frankfurt and gives Aglaé and Liette their car. The two women continue in twos.
A meeting with the human resources department of the automotive group necessitates a further detour: In the group's Polish plant, the two women meet two colleagues from the French plant, the personnel manager "La DRH" and the union leader Clovis. The former offers the two of them a job in Poland on better terms because of the onset of public pressure, while the latter is particularly committed to Liette. The reason for this is a personal constellation: Clovis is Liette's husband, who cheated on her with "La DRH", which was the trigger for Liette's trip to India. Liette and Clovis reconcile and return to France, whereupon Aglaé drives on alone.
In Kazakhstan, Aglaé gets lost in a restricted military area and is arrested by soldiers. At night she has sex with one of the soldiers, who then flees the barracks with her on his motorcycle. After an accident, she travels alone until the motorcycle gives up the ghost shortly before the border with China. For a few days she continued on foot into the Altai Mountains until she collapsed from exhaustion.
Miraculously, she wakes up in an Indian hospital from which she immediately escapes. She first finds accommodation with a local homosexual who, like her, loves cricket and who had treated her as a doctor in the hospital. The closure of the French auto plant has now escalated into a national scandal with Aglaé as its figurehead, and the auto company had to reverse the closure. Aglaé, pregnant by the Kazakh soldier, could return to her old life, but decides to stay in India and dare to start again.
History of origin
The French-Canadian director and author Éric Gravel had previously made TV series and various short films, some of which were award-winning; Crash Test Aglaé is his first feature film. The budget was two million euros. The film was shot from September to November 2015 in France, Poland, Kazakhstan and India.
According to Gravel, it was important to him to portray the change in character of the protagonist Aglaé via the camera work. The camera work is still rigid at the beginning of the film. As soon as she arrives in Russia, she becomes more sensitive and gradually tries to capture emotions, and in the Asian locations the camera shows the vastness and diversity of the world that Aglaé influenced. The character of Marcelle was inspired by Gravel's personality from his grandmother, who "had the peculiarity of pushing aside everything that looked like complex considerations".
In 2017, Crash Test Aglaé was shown at the Hamburg Film Festival and at the French Film Days Tübingen-Stuttgart .
reception
The French magazine Allocine aggregated twelve reviews from French-speaking critics to a meta rating of 3.4 out of 5 points. The French magazine Avoir Alire praised the "extraordinary story", "magnificent landscapes" and the performance of the three leading actresses. It rated the film as a "modern and original fable" on the subject of globalization and awarded it three out of four stars. The French daily Le Parisien praised the film as being "filled with charm and poetry". Reviewer Catherine Balle pointed out that the film touches three genres during its running time: It starts as a social comedy, then moves on to an adventurous road movie and ends as a story about the search for the self.
Web links
- Crash Test Aglaé in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Trailer on YouTube (French)
Individual evidence
- ^ Filmtage-Tuebingen.de: Crash Test Aglaé. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on October 17, 2017 ; accessed on October 16, 2017 . 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.
- ↑ EstRepublicain.fr: Crash test Aglaé, tourné en Meuse, attend toujours sa sortie. Retrieved October 16, 2017 .
- ↑ CinEuropa.org: Crash test Aglaé in the starting blocks. Retrieved October 16, 2017 (French).
- ↑ Allocine.fr: Crash Test Aglaé. Retrieved October 16, 2017 (French).
- ^ FilmfestHamburg.de: Crash Test Aglaé. Retrieved October 16, 2017 .
- ↑ Allocine.fr: Crash Test Aglaé - Critiques presse. Retrieved October 16, 2017 (French).
- ↑ Avoir-Alire.com: Crash test Aglaé. Retrieved October 15, 2017 (French).
- ↑ LeParisien.fr: Crash test Aglaé: Trois filles en cavale. Retrieved October 16, 2017 (French).
