The pact of love: Simone de Beauvoir and Sartre

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Movie
German title The pact of love: Simone de Beauvoir and Sartre
Original title Les amants du Flore
Country of production France
original language French
Publishing year 2006
length 104 minutes
Rod
Director Ilan Duran Cohen
script Stanislas Graziani
Chantal Derudder
Evelyne Pisier
Suna Syal
music Grégoire Hetzel
camera Christophe Graillot
cut Hugues Orduna
occupation

The pact of love: Simone de Beauvoir and Sartre is the title of a French television film from 2006 that tells the love story between the philosophers Simone de Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Sartre .

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The philosophy student Simone de Beauvoir was while studying at the Sorbonne in Paris not very interested in the advertising attempts by other men. Rather, she tries to stop her best friend Lola from getting married and dropping out of college. She sees marriage as the enslavement of women and refuses to ever serve a man. She is also hostile to Jean-Paul Sartre and is very distant from his approaches. He can convince her to study together for admission to the examination, so that she is the youngest student ever to take the final examination in philosophy. In the summer he visits her in Meyrignac and experiences how undesirable he is. He rebels against her father and challenges him to a fist fight. She is impressed by the chutzpah with which he revolts against the bourgeoisie and their rules. After Lola dies and de Beauvoir blames the approaching marriage, she agrees to Sartre's love pact. Although she is initially disgusted that there should be no lies or monogamy between the two, she also sees the benefits for herself in having different experiences.

Both of them started their professional careers as teachers in different cities. They teach innovatively and thus often violate existing conventions. Sartre receives a scholarship to study with Martin Heidegger in Berlin . De Beauvoir begins a lesbian love affair with her student Lumi. With the return of Sartre, and a short stop as a test subject for mescaline , he too begins a love affair with Lumi, which causes an absolute emotional chaos in everyone. It comes to the point that after Sartre's first published novel, de Beauvoir no longer wants to sleep with him, but only wants to have an intellectual relationship and accept any lover beside him.

When the Hitler-Stalin pact became public, France was about to enter the Second World War . Sartre is drafted into the military and, by marrying Tania, receives some perks so that he can return home unharmed after Hitler's successful campaign in the west . However, he wants to continue to fight against the Vichy regime , because for him "words are like loaded pistols". With other writers and artists in the underground, he not only tried out leaflet campaigns, but also performed various plays. Meanwhile, de Beauvoir's father dies, and she sees her mother suddenly regaining freedom. In addition, she is dismissed from school for seducing minors. She publishes her first novel with the same publisher that Sartre publishes and uses the time while Sartre is on tour in the USA to write more books. She herself suffers in the name of freedom and authenticity, while Sartre is becoming more and more enviable and famous in the eyes of many ladies. After Sartre's return, de Beauvoir learns from others that he has a new lover in Carmen Colomba. Since he was not honest with her, she feels betrayed and her jealousy increases.

Simone de Beauvoir then does a US tour and lives in Chicago and New York City . She comes into contact with the Kinsey report and sociology . She begins an affair with the American writer Nelson Algren , and the idea of ​​a philosophical book by the woman begins to develop. She writes The Other Sex , which becomes a worldwide bestseller, and has to face Nelson’s jealousy, who desperately wants to marry her and take her to Chicago. But de Beauvoir does not want to become a man's servant.

criticism

"Well-researched film about the checkered history of the relationship between Simone de Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Sartre [...] The story of an existential love relationship in which the partners remain true to their philosophy."

- Lexicon of international film

“A little clumsy look at the famous couple. A myth: love on a philosophical level "

- Cinema

“Director Ilan Duran Cohen (“ You love to be undecided ”) gives an insight into the love life of a woman who lives uncompromisingly true to her philosophy and asserts herself against both her bourgeois parents and her unconventional lover. Cohen, who was strongly oriented towards the biographical guidelines, cast the convincing Anna Mouglalis in the female lead, who had previously been seen in films such as "The Pact of Vengeance" and "Sweet Poison". "

- prism

publication

The film had its world premiere on January 26, 2006 at the FIPA Film Festival and was shown for the first time in Germany on January 11, 2008 on Arte .

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ The pact of love: Simone de Beauvoir and Sartre. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  2. ^ The love pact: Simone de Beauvoir and Sartre on cinema.de , accessed on May 16, 2012
  3. ↑ The love pact: Simone de Beauvoir and Sartre on prisma.de , accessed on May 16, 2012