The girl from Monaco

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Movie
German title The girl from Monaco
Original title La fille de Monaco
Country of production France
original language French
Publishing year 2008
length 95 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
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Director Anne Fontaine
script Anne Fontaine
Benoît Graffin
production Philippe Carcassonne
Bruno Pésery
music Philippe Rombi
camera Patrick Blossier
cut Maryline Monthieux
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The French feature film The Monaco Girl ( La fille de Monaco ) from 2008 is half comedy, half drama. In addition to Fabrice Luchini and Roschdy Zem , Louise Bourgoin also plays , who lets her former work as a television weather fairy flow into her role.

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Successful defense attorney Bertrand, around fifty, comes to Monaco from Paris to take on the defense of the wealthy, elderly Monegasque Lasalle, who killed her young Russian lover. The defendant's son places the bodyguard Christophe at his side because he fears acts of revenge by the murdered man's brothers. Christophe is very disciplined and strictly follows the rules of his profession; Bertrand finds his constant presence tedious and embarrassing. Bertrand knows how to win over women in a witty way, but he escapes as soon as they are ready. During an appointment with the Monegasque television, he meets the beautiful young Audrey, who moderates the weather there.

Christophe is bad at Audrey; he once had something with her. The girl throws herself at Bertrand, takes him half against his will to the young people, with whom she celebrates in discos and at parties. In her plush pink room she offers herself to him. Bertrand falls in love with her and Christophe reacts irritably and slightly jealous. However, Bertrand is uncomfortably touched when she puts together an amateurish video about him that she wants to send, which he does not want. Increasingly, he feels overwhelmed and tired by her investigative nature and wants to end the relationship for which he sees no future. But Audrey is not dissuaded from the plan to go to Paris with him and live together. Christophe sees the process in jeopardy and Bertrand keeps the girl at bay by ramming her with the car as she drives along a cliff on the moped. The police arrest him on suspicion of murder, but Bertrand takes the blame and goes to jail.

criticism

The German critics were impressed by the actors, by Luchini, “France's most talented tragicomic”, as well as by Zem and Bourgoin, by the “irresistible” Bourgoin, or by Luchini and Bourgoin, because they combine “the naturalness of a carefree girl with the open-hearted Show worn charms of a hardened femme fatale, who purposefully pursues her social advancement. "

According to epd film , the film is photographed with finesse, but it doesn’t get by in depth. In contrast, the film service called him "deeply plumbing", and the script is characterized among other things by the fact that the lawyer figure "gains in contradicting depth"; Thanks to Luchini, following her is an “uncanny pleasure”. The flick is looking for "unparalleled entertainment and a confident tension curve". For the Tagesspiegel it is an “enigmatic comedy that lives mainly from the careful construction of the opposing characters.” The characters complement each other. The world regretted that the film began as a “light-footed summer comedy” and was fun, but towards the end there was a “disconcertingly morally acidic seriousness”, the woman using erotic means was “hyped up as a“ satanic danger for the man ”. In a similar way, Der Spiegel saw the initially light summer comedy becoming “a sleazy and difficult to bear” portrayal of a life crisis.

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  • epd film No. 7/2009, p. 41, by Anke Sterneborg: The girl from Monaco

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  1. ↑ Release certificate for the girl from Monaco . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , June 2009 (PDF; test number: 118 125 K).
  2. ↑ a b Martin Schwickert: Rosen für den Staranwalt , in: Der Tagesspiegel , July 2, 2009
  3. ↑ a b Jens Hinrichsen: The girl from Monaco , in: film-dienst No. 14/2009, p. 21
  4. ↑ a b Anke Sterneborg: The girl from Monaco , in: epd Film No. 7/2009, p. 41
  5. ↑ Leni Höllerer: And eternal lures the woman , in: Die Welt , July 2, 2009
  6. ↑ Der Spiegel , Kulturspiegel No. 7/2009: New Films in July