The butterfly
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | The butterfly |
| Original title | Le papillon |
| Country of production | France |
| original language | French |
| Publishing year | 2002 |
| length | 85 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 0 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Philippe Muyl |
| script | Philippe Muyl |
| production | Patrick Godeau |
| music | Nicolas Errèra |
| camera | Nicolas Herdt |
| cut | Mireille Leroy |
| occupation | |
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The Butterfly is a French feature film directed by Philippe Muyl in 2002.
action
Old Julien has lived alone and withdrawn in an apartment in Paris for many years . In addition to his cats, it is primarily the butterflies that determine his life. He collects them in showcases, but also has larvae sent to him that he hatches in his apartment. He has converted an entire room into an oasis for living butterflies. A new delivery of larvae also contains an unspecified moth; Julien takes care of everyone. One day a mother and her nine-year-old daughter Elsa move into his house. Elsa loves the game of basketball and brings Julien to sleep with her ball game noise. He still takes care of her when her mother apparently did not pick her up from school and Elsa therefore spends her afternoon waiting in a café. Julien takes her to his apartment and shows her his butterflies. When she goes into the butterfly room despite the prohibition and the moths fly through the whole apartment and even the stairwell, Julien throws her out angrily.
Julien is looking for a certain butterfly, the crepuscular Isabelle . He spontaneously goes in search of the butterfly, whose place of distribution is in the mountains. He first travels by car and only notices when he is resting that Elsa has hidden in his car. She would like to come with him because as a city child she has never experienced nature. She gives Julien a wrong phone number so that he cannot notify her mother. Elsa had once again not picked them up from school; It becomes clear that her mother, who had her daughter at the age of 16, often leaves her child alone and Elsa therefore even lived in the home for a while. In the end, Julien discards his plan to hand Elsa over to a police station and takes the girl with him on his search. He buys her suitable clothes and they both go on a hike. Elsa proves to be inquisitive, but overwhelms the quietly-loving Julien with her constantly talking manner and her Gameboy game. She, in turn, is bothered by the fact that he occasionally calls on his cell phone - she secretly removes the chip and thus ensures that the police, who have become aware of Elsa's disappearance, cannot locate Julien's cell phone. Elsa knows that she is wanted because she saw an article in a newspaper about it.
Julien and Elsa watch a deer being shot by a poacher in front of their eyes. Julien swears about it and explains to Elsa why poachers are not good people. Elsa in turn realizes that Julien is killing the captured butterflies too. She berates him as a poacher and refuses to move on. Only after a while does she show herself reconciled. Both eventually reach an area where Isabelle is supposed to appear. Julien builds his safety gear in the form of a stretched and illuminated cloth. The next day, both of them are surprised by a thunderstorm and are accommodated in a family hut at the end of the valley. Elsa hears Julien explaining his interest in butterflies to the owner. He had a son who became severely depressed and began to love butterflies. He asked his father to catch an Isabelle butterfly for him. Julien was hapless for several years; his son took his own life.
Elsa and Julien return to their tent and Julien sees an Isabelle butterfly sitting on the cloth in the evening. Enthusiastic he calls Elsa over, who knocks over the device - the butterfly flies away. Julien reacts angrily, so Elsa refuses to come into the tent that evening. The next day she disappeared; through her shouting Julien finds the deep cave into which she fell. He cannot free her and turns to the nearest gendarmerie. Here you can see the man who is considered to be Elsa's kidnapper. Julien is arrested and Elsa is freed from the cave. The matter is resolved and Julien is released. He shows Elsa's mother how much she has neglected her daughter and makes sure that mother and daughter get closer to each other. Meanwhile, the butterfly larvae continue to develop and he and Elsa finally watch the butterflies hatch. The unknown moth turns out to be the Isabelle butterfly. Julien and Elsa later release the butterfly and Elsa reveals to Julien that her mother is also called Isabelle.
production
The idea for the film Der Schmetterling was developed by director and screenwriter Philippe Muyl in two years. The origin was his visit to a website about butterflies and the unusual name Isabelle for a butterfly species. The film was shot in Paris, in the Parc naturel régional du Vercors and in the parks of Ecrins and Queyras . The costumes were created by Françoise Dubois and Sylvie de Segonzac , the film construction was done by Nikos Meletopoulos . Michel Serrault and Claire Bouanich sing the song Le papillon in the film . It was the screen debut for Claire Bouanich, who at the time of filming was about the same age as the Elsa she was portraying. Her father Jacques Bouanich can be seen in the role of a family man.
The butterfly was shown in French cinemas on December 18, 2002, where it was seen by around 887,000 viewers. In Germany, the film was released on March 11, 2004 and was released on DVD on November 29, 2004.
synchronization
| role | actor | Voice actor |
|---|---|---|
| Julian | Michel Serrault | Peter Fitz |
| Elsa | Claire Bouanich | Lara Wurmer |
criticism
For the film-dienst , The Butterfly was a “little story from which a poetic, psychologically sensitive family film with deeply felt truths about the existentially necessary closeness to other people develops” “Sensitive and full of poetry: This friendship between old and young is a little film miracle, ”said Cinema . "Amusing, touching and lively like butterflies [...] this imaginatively cranky adventure film lets a spring breeze blow across the screen," wrote Der Spiegel .
Web links
- The butterfly in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Secrets tournage: La genèse du projet , allocine.fr.
- ↑ See Box office on allocine.fr
- ↑ The butterfly. In: synchronkartei.de. German dubbing file , accessed on March 2, 2017 .
- ↑ The butterfly. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ↑ See cinema.de
- ↑ Cinema in brief: The butterfly . In: Der Spiegel , No. 11, 2004, p. 166.