The Loulou

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Movie
German title The Loulou
Original title Loulou
Country of production France
original language French
Publishing year 1980
length 100 minutes
Rod
Director Maurice Pialat
script Arlette Langmann ,
Maurice Pialat
production Yves Peyrot
music Philippe Sarde
camera Pierre-William Glenn ,
Jacques Loiseleux
cut Yann Dedet
occupation
synchronization

Loulou is a French feature film directed by Maurice Pialat in 1980. Isabelle Huppert and Gérard Depardieu play the leading roles in the social drama .

action

In a discotheque, Nelly meets the unemployed drifter Loulou and spends the night with him. When she returns to her husband André, the boss of a small advertising agency, the next day, he wants to throw her out of the apartment. But then they make up again. But instead of accompanying him to a work lunch, Nelly ends up in Loulou's arms again.

She spends her time with Loulou and his clique. Loulou has been to prison before and is still involved in criminal circles. Nelly pays for the cheap hotel room they live in and feels fine. André tries helplessly to take it back. He seems to have no chance against Loulou's sexual attraction and his “macho” charm.

When Nelly becomes pregnant, she rents a small apartment. She sleeps one more time with André and is taken to a burglary by Loulou. As a daughter from a good family, she finds this criminal act fascinating. But gradually, especially after her brother Michel's offer to help Loulou find work, Nelly began to have doubts about a carefree future.

After a meal in the country at Loulou's mother with his siblings and friends, Loulou's brother-in-law goes at one of Loulou's prison friends with a gun. The jealousy scene ends lightly in a wild scuffle, but it is one of the reasons that Nelly has the child aborted. Loulou, who was looking forward to the child without really worrying about how much this would have changed her life situation, is angry. In the end, Nelly, half sober, and Loulou, drunk and tightly embraced late at night, stumble out of their regular café.

Reviews

The lexicon of international films described the film as a “description of the state of a group of dropouts who did not shed light on the motives and social environment”, and went on to say: “The largely uncritical drawing of the characters and its indecisive attitude makes the film less credible.”

Der Spiegel found that the film shows "a milieu that the French foam biscuit cinema has wriggled around in recent years". Pialat's directorial work is reminiscent of the "early Renoir films [...] without, however, reaching their romantic poetry". Die Zeit said that Loulou was one of those "films of possibility that do not fix everyday life through assertions, but instead discover it between the lines and bring this discovery into play regardless of the loss of meaning". These films "rarely succeed". However, director Pialat shoots works "that young filmmakers can only dream of".

Awards

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role actor Voice actor
Nelly Isabelle Huppert Susanna Bonaséwicz
Loulou Gérard Depardieu Wolfgang Pampel
André, Nelly's ex-husband Guy Marchand Elmar Wepper
Michel, Nelly's brother Humbert Balsan Uwe Paulsen
Remy Bernard Tronczak Ulrich Matthes
Pierrot Christian Boucher Torsten Sense
granny Jacqueline Dufranne Christine Gerlach

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The Loulou. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  2. ↑ Wolfgang Limmer in Der Spiegel , March 30, 1981.
  3. ^ Die Zeit , April 3, 1981.
  4. ↑ The Loulou. In: synchronkartei.de. German dubbing index , accessed on August 1, 2018 .