My mother's castle
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German title | My mother's castle |
Original title | Le Château de ma mère |
Country of production | France |
original language | French |
Publishing year | 1990 |
length | 98 minutes |
Age rating | FSK 6 |
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Director | Yves Robert |
script |
Louis Nucéra , Yves Robert, Jérôme Tonnerre |
production | Alain Poiré |
music | Vladimir Cosma |
camera | Robert Alazraki |
cut | Pierre Gillette |
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chronology | |
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My mother's castle (original title: Le Château de ma mère ) is a French feature film from 1990. It is the second part of the film adaptation of the autobiographical novel A Childhood in Provence by Marcel Pagnol , after The Glory of My Father .
action
Around 1905 Marcel is supposed to prepare for the high school exam. As a reward, a stay in a holiday home in his beloved hills of Provence beckons. Following a suggestion from the mother, the family also spends the weekends in the holiday home. Marcel meets the girl Isabelle and falls in love with her. But Isabelle soon becomes ruler over him. Lili and Paul observe the two and inform the parents. After the bitter disappointment of his first love, he turns back to his friend Lili. After a former student, who is now a sewer attendant, illegally gives his father a key to shorten the path to their holiday home and they are caught by a guard while taking a harmless shortcut, his father is put in a precarious position. The mother collapses. The sewer attendant can, however, relax the situation with his two friends.
After five years the idyllic childhood ends with the death of the mother. His brother Paul, who later worked as a shepherd in the hills, died at the age of 30. His friend Lili was killed by a bullet in the war in 1917.
When Marcel grew up and bought a castle to film, he discovered that it was the castle that played an important role in his childhood. Here they were caught by the guard.
Reviews
The TV magazine prisma judged: “In this second part, director Yves Robert shows wonderful landscape shots, slapstick-like gags on the fringes and pretty decor. Viewers inclined to nostalgia can immerse themselves in an almost forgotten time in a very successful film adaptation. "
"The lovingly staged film, carried by delicate humor, impresses above all with its beautifully photographed landscape shots and the sensitive and natural play of the actors."
Awards
The four-fold nomination for the French César in the same year did not lead to a prize in any category.
The German Film and Media Evaluation FBW in Wiesbaden awarded the film the title valuable.
Web links
- My mother's castle in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ Certificate of release for my mother's castle . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , October 2009 (PDF; test number: 66 253 V).
- ↑ My mother's castle. In: prisma.de . Retrieved December 7, 2017 .
- ↑ My mother's castle. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed December 7, 2017 .