The giraffe's neck (film)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | The giraffe's neck |
| Original title | Le cou de la girafe |
| Country of production |
France Belgium |
| original language |
French Italian Spanish |
| Publishing year | 2004 |
| length | 84 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 0 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Safy Nebbou |
| script | Safy Nebbou Agnès Yobregat Danièle Thompson |
| production | Charles Gassot |
| music | Pascal Gaigne |
| camera | Romain Winding |
| cut | Bernard Sasia |
| occupation | |
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The Giraffe's Neck is a Franco-Belgian drama directed by Safy Nebbou from 2004.
action
Bookseller Paul has been living in a retirement home for some time, where he does not feel comfortable. His daughter Hélène and granddaughter Mathilde visit him for his birthday. Paul was abandoned by his wife Madeleine when Hélène was ten years old. Hélène told Mathilde that her grandma is dead. Mathilde, in turn, lives with her mother, who has separated from her husband. Mathilde's father is Italian and works in the USA, so Mathilde only has contact with him by telephone. After an argument, partly because of her bad school grades, Mathilde runs away from home and goes to see her grandfather at night. She tells him that she found letters from Madeleine, including one addressed to her. Madeleine writes in it that she would like to get to know her granddaughter. Mathilde convinces Paul to go to Biarritz with her and visit Madeleine. During Paul's absence, the home residents organize to hide his escape for as long as possible.
Paul and Mathilde travel to Biarritz by TGV . Here Paul first visits the bookstore Der Hals der Giraffe , which belonged to him then and which is still called today as it was before. The former house of Madeleine no longer stands and the workshop of Paul's best friend Maxime, for whom Madeleine once left him, is also abandoned. They both find out that Maxime lives in a retirement home. Maxime tells both that he was only with Madeleine for four years, who again tried in vain to find Paul after their separation. He and his daughter had purposely gone into hiding out of hurt pride and moved to different countries. Only in the old people's home does Paul realize that the letter Madeleine had written to Mathilde is already nine years old. He decides to return home. Because they miss the train, they call Hélène, who is already on her way to Biarritz and takes them with her. The three spend the night in a hotel. An attempt by father and daughter to speak out about the relationship between Paul and Madeleine after all these years fails. Paul travels back to Paris shortly afterwards. He made up his mind not to go back to the nursing home. Instead, he moves back into his Paris apartment, which he had never given up. Mathilde and Hélène, in turn, travel on to Spain. In one of her last letters, Madeleine had given Hélène her new address in a small Spanish village. On site, Hélène and Mathilde meet Madeleine, but she does not recognize her. Madeleine has dementia . Hélène and Mathilde offer to accompany the old woman home and take her hand as they walk with her down the village street.
production
The Giraffe's Neck was Safy Nebbou's full-length directorial debut, who also made a cameo as a taxi driver in the film . The budget of the film long at 4.7 million euros. The costumes created Kristin Van Passel , the Filmbauten come from Cyril Gomez-Mathieu .
The giraffe's neck was shown at the Saint-Malo Film Festival on June 19, 2004 and was released in Belgian and French cinemas on September 29, 2004. Around 260,000 viewers saw the film in French cinemas. In Germany, Der Hals der Giraffe was released in cinemas on August 17, 2006 and was released on DVD in February 2008.
synchronization
| role | actor | Voice actor |
|---|---|---|
| Hélène | Sandrine Bonnaire | Sabine Arnhold |
| Paul | Claude Rich | Hasso Zorn |
| Mathilde | Louisa Pili | Jamie Lee Blank |
| Leo | Darry Cowl | Kaspar Eichel |
| Maxim | Philippe Leroy | Gerd Holtenau |
| Maurice | Maurice Chevit | Werner Ehrlicher |
criticism
The film-dienst called The Giraffe's Neck a "precisely observing road movie that subtly alternates between comedy and melodrama and is about the disarming power of a child's search for truth." The film tells "completely calmly [...] its sometimes poignant story." Cinema was one of "those small, fine films that effortlessly win a place in the heart."
Awards
At the Cinéstival Marseille 2004 the film won the audience award and the critic award. At the Cairo International Film Festival , Safy Nebbou won the Naguib Mahfouz Prize for Best First or Second Film . Louisa Pili received an Honorable Mention. The film also ran in the competition for the festival's Golden Pyramid.
Web links
- The neck of the giraffe in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Cf. allocine.fr
- ↑ The giraffe's neck. In: synchronkartei.de. German dubbing file , accessed on March 2, 2017 .
- ↑ The giraffe's neck. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ↑ See cinema.de
- ↑ Couvert de prix… on allocine.fr