The second life of Monsieur Manesquier
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | The second life of Monsieur Manesquier |
| Original title | L'Homme you train |
| Country of production | France , Germany , United Kingdom , Switzerland |
| original language | French |
| Publishing year | 2002 |
| length | 90 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Patrice Leconte |
| script | Claude Klotz |
| production | Philippe Carcassonne |
| music | Pascal Estève |
| camera | Jean-Marie Dreujou |
| cut | Joëlle Hache |
| occupation | |
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The second life of Monsieur Manesquier (original title L'Homme du train ) is a French-German-British-Swiss film from 2002.
action
A stranger ( Johnny Hallyday ) gets off a train in a French village . As it turns out later, he wants to rob the local bank . In a pharmacy he meets the retired teacher Manesquier ( Jean Rochefort ), who lives largely alone in a somewhat shabby house and is about to have a heart operation. Manesquier takes Milan into his home and soon they both realize that they want to be able to lead each other's lives. Milan would like some peace and quiet, Manesquier believes he has missed a wild life. You have three days to imagine the other life, but in the end everyone has to submit to their fate. While Manesquier tells the other his life (a life of missed opportunities), Milan listens and shows rather symbolically (so he puts on his slippers in Manesquier's house) that he would have liked to live Manesquier's life. In a restaurant, Manesquier goes out of his way and takes on a young man who provokes the guests and who, as it turns out, is a former student and immediately gives in out of respect for the authority of the teacher. Milan lives in Manesquier's house like a pensioner, but continues to pursue his plan to rob the local bank. So both men go their own way until the end and are spatially separated in the last minute of their lives, but their thoughts are with each other. A poetic, melancholy film of soft tones.
criticism
“A story staged like a chamber play about the search for happiness and the longing for a new beginning. The attempt to stage two archetypal actors of French cinema against the grain is only partially successful. "
“Leconte's SECOND LIFE ... on the other hand, was the first film Hallyday asked the director to work with. And so Leconte lets him trot through the French provinces like an old, tired lion, plays through the tough guy clichés of his career with loving irony, finally puts him in felt slippers, smoking a pipe, in front of the fireplace of a bourgeois mansion - legends must also have to be come to rest sometime. 'THE SECOND LIFE ... was my first film as an actor', the 62-year-old admitted very modestly to the "Cahiers du Cinema". "
Awards
The Second Life of Monsieur Manesquier won the audience award for best film at the Venice Film Festival in 2002; Jean Rochefort won the audience award for best actor. Director Patric Leconte was nominated for the Golden Lion. Hallyday received the Jean Gabin Prize for his role .
Web links
- The Man on the Train at the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ The second life of Monsieur Manesquier. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed July 23, 2017 .