Life is a chanson
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Life is a chanson |
| Original title | On connaît la chanson |
| Country of production | France , Switzerland , Great Britain |
| original language | French |
| Publishing year | 1997 |
| length | 120 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Alain Resnais |
| script |
Jean-Pierre Bacri , Agnès Jaoui |
| production |
Bruno Pésery , Michel Seydoux , Ruth Waldburger |
| music | Bruno Fontaine |
| camera | Renato Berta |
| cut | Hervé de Luze |
| occupation | |
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Life is a Chanson is a French feature film by Alain Resnais from 1997 in which the actors suddenly sing individual lines of French chansons.
action
Odile and Claude live in a routine relationship. Claude looks forward to the return of Nicolas, Odile's former lover, to Paris with mixed feelings. Odile thinks about buying an apartment and turns to the real estate agent Marc. Her sister Camille, who is a tour guide and history student, is impressed during a tour. For her part, Camille does not notice that Simon, who works for the tyrannical Marc without any trace of enthusiasm, but shares a passion for history with her, has fallen in love with her.
Reviews
In its review, the film-dienst described Resnais' film as an “experiment carried out by an ensemble who loves to play”, which advances to “an amusing excursus about the truisms of popular texts that have become wisdoms of life”. This is achieved, among other things, through the trick of “having the actors 'sing' a few bars of chansons and pop songs lip-synchronic”, which “exaggerates everyday life” and “penetrates the depths of the characters with playful ease”.
For Cinema the film was “lively and profound like a good Woody Allen”. The film magazine also described it as an "amusing dance of love between dream and sadness that is weird, unique, magical, experimental, playful and clever at the same time". The result was also “an art product”, but “its wonderfully sensual contrast between the ideal world of songs and the wounds of life can show a lot about love in times of existential loneliness”.
Awards
The film won the Silver Bear at the Berlinale in 1998 and in the same year received a total of seven Césars (best film, best screenplay, best leading actor, best supporting actor, best supporting actress, best editing, best sound). In 1997 the film was also awarded the Louis Delluc Prize . The following year, the award of followed Syndicat Français de la Critique de Cinéma as the best French film .
literature
- Stephanie Wodianka: The 'untranslatable' cultural memory of France: On Connaît la Chanson . In: Astrid Erll, Stephanie Wodianka (ed.): Film and cultural memory. Plurimedial constellations . Walter de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2008, ISBN 978-3-11-020443-8 , pp. 205-230.
Web links
- Life is a song in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Life is a song at Rotten Tomatoes (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Life is a chanson. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed August 4, 2018 .
- ↑ See cinema.de