The vanishing point
| Movie | |
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| German title | The vanishing point |
| Original title | Ce que mes yeux ont vu |
| Country of production | France |
| original language | French |
| Publishing year | 2007 |
| length | 88 minutes |
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| Director | Laurent de Bartillat |
| script | Laurent de Bartillat , Alain Ross |
| production | Geoffroy Grison , Frédéric Bellaïche |
| music | David Moreau |
| camera | Jean-Marc Selva |
| cut | Tina Baz Legal |
| occupation | |
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The vanishing point (French original title Ce que mes yeux ont vu , German What my eyes saw ) is director Laurent de Bartillat's debut film from 2007. It was first broadcast on German television on October 12, 2010 on 3sat under the alternative title with my own eyes .
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The film, which is set in contemporary Paris , follows in the footsteps of the painter Antoine Watteau (1684–1721) and the idea that the latter sublimated feelings about an actress of the Comédie-Française in his pictures, Charlotte Desmares (1682–1753) . The art student Lucie Audibert looks more and more maniacally for evidence of this theory. The female figure who presents the viewer's back to the viewer on many of Watteau's paintings, for example on the various versions of the “ Embarkation for Kythera ”, is precisely that actress.
Lucie's professor advises her against her plan. He himself carried out lengthy research on the subject, but came to no conclusion. He finally reveals to her that due to his ambitious research, he initially lost his wife to another man, with whom she then had a fatal accident shortly afterwards.
In Watteau's painting “ The shop sign of the art dealer Gersaint ” (French: “L'Enseigne de Gersaint”), Lucie discovered one of the many paintings on it that was made by a painter named Openor. The question is, why did Watteau capture such a secondary work on his own painting? When the picture from a private collection was auctioned off in Ghent , she went there. There is a lot of interest in the picture, because the starting price of 5,000 euros rises quickly and finally reaches 8,400 euros before Lucie is accepted. The money came from the sale of a pocket watch, a memento of her father, Alain Audibert. He was an alpinist and died trying to climb K2 without an oxygen mask.
Back in Paris, Lucie has the auctioned painting examined by her friend, the restaurant owner Garance, using X-ray technology. A hidden image emerges, whereupon the restorer removes the layer of paint above. The professor rushed to recognize a real Watteau, unknown to research. Lucie solves the case: Watteau fell in love with the actress, rented a studio near her and began to paint. Later, however, he destroyed these paintings or painted over them and signed them with a false name, "Openor".
One of the few social contacts that Lucie had during this time was Vincent, a mysterious deaf-mute who sometimes sprinkled himself with white powder and posed on the street as a mime . In this he resembles Watteau's “Gilles” (1718/19). Because of a ruptured artery, Vincent is hospitalized one day, where he is in a coma for some time and ultimately dies of an embolism .
Web links
- The vanishing point in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Trailer for the film (French, dailymotion.com)