The little house tyrant
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | The little house tyrant |
| Original title | Safe |
| Country of production | France |
| original language | French |
| Publishing year | 2009 |
| length | 85 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director |
Claude Berri , François Dupeyron |
| script | Claude Berri, Eric Assous |
| production | Claude Berri, Nathalie Rheims |
| music |
Frédéric Botton , Jean-Yves d'Angelo |
| camera | Agnes Godard |
| cut |
François Gédigier , Sylvie Lager |
| occupation | |
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The Little House Tyrant (original title: Trésor ) is a French comedy film and the last film by director Claude Berri from 2009. Alain Chabat and Mathilde Seigner can be seen in the leading roles .
action
The architect Jean-Pierre and his wife Nathalie have been married for five years and live happily in Paris . On the wedding day, Jean-Pierre wants to give his wife a special treat. He gives her a four-month-old puppy. For Nathalie, it is love at first sight when she receives her present, an English Bulldog . After she christened the dog "Trésor", he soon contested the place for Jean-Pierre. Nathalie only has eyes for Trésor and lets him sleep in the double bed. Trésor, however, has a tendency to gas, bites Jean-Pierre's shoes and snores, which is why Nathalie and Jean-Pierre constantly get into arguments and grow increasingly apart. With an anti-snoring spray, Jean-Pierre tries to stop Trésor's snoring. When Nathalie catches him trying to give the little dog the spray, she indignantly takes the dog out of his hands.
Jean-Pierre confides in his colleague Bruno, who advises him to have a baby with Nathalie. Meanwhile, Nathalie's mother Nadine uses the opportunity to interfere in the couple's life. In order to save their marriage, Nathalie and Jean-Pierre finally seek out the animal psychologist Françoise Lagier, who advises them to show more authority over dogs and to create space for themselves to rediscover their love for one another. Jean-Pierre and Nathalie leave Trésor in Nadine's care and drive to Ostend , where they want to spend a few days together. When Nathalie sees a bulldog on the beach, she longs for her own dog and she reluctantly allows Jean-Pierre to persuade her to leave early. Back in Paris everything is as before. Nathalie lets Trésor sleep in bed and Jean-Pierre does not agree. When Jean-Pierre came home from work the next day, he found a note from Nathalie. She has left him and is now living with Trésor with her mother.
Through Brigitte, the owner of a dog salon , Nathalie met Fabrice at a dog show , who had a weakness for bassets . When Nathalie meets him in his apartment, where Fabrice has numerous paintings of bassets on the walls, Nathalie realizes that Fabrice is not a man for her. Meanwhile, Jean-Pierre meets the attractive dog owner Florianne and they go to a bar together. When Florianne asks him where Trésor is, with whom she has often seen him before, Jean-Pierre decides to replace him with a young English bulldog to buy. In a park he and Nathalie meet with the two dogs by chance and admit that they have missed each other. They reconcile and then lie asleep in front of the television with their dogs.
background
The little domestic tyrant was the last directorial work by the French filmmaker Claude Berri, who died of a cerebral haemorrhage on January 12, 2009 in a Paris hospital while filming. Director François Dupeyron , best known for the 2003 film Monsieur Ibrahim and the Flowers of the Koran , finished Berri's last film. The shooting took place in Paris and Ostend.
The Little House Tyrant was released in France and Belgium on November 11, 2009. In Germany, the film was first released on DVD in April 2011.
Reviews
According to Variety's Jordan Mintzer , the last film by the late French director Claude Berri, "unfortunately, is not worth seeing or remembering." The script “obviously” prefers a pet to a human, “while the gags are exhausted in front of a dreary backdrop of body fluids and designer bedrooms”. Télérama wrote that it was “sad” that Claude Berri's last film was “a very bad comedy”. The "rather stupid topic (my wife, her dog and I)" calls for "easy staging and incredible actors". Mathilde Seigner, who appears in “an unbearable role of course”, is faced with a “very pale chabat”. Pierre Vavasseur of Le Parisien said that only dog lovers could forgive the script for "lack of bite".
For the lexicon of international films , The Little House Tyrant was again a "[s] ympathic family comedy that puts everyday relationship problems in a satirical context and at the same time caricatures an exaggerated love of animals and the industry that makes money from it".
Web links
- The small domestic tyrant in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Trailer and film clips on allocine.fr
- Pictures of the film on toutlecine.com
Individual evidence
- ↑ “ Trésor , the final film by late Gallic helmer-producer Claude Berri, is, alas, neither a treasure to watch nor one to remember him by. [...] Script clearly seems to prefer the psychology of a household pet to that of human beings, while gags play out before a drab backdrop of bodily fluids and designer bedrooms. " Jordan Mintzer: Review: 'Tresor' ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . In: Variety , November 23, 2009.
- ↑ “On est triste: le dernier film de Claude Berri […] est une très mauvaise comédie. […] Ce sujet un peu bête (ma femme, son chien et moi) réclamait une mise en scene légère et des acteurs ébouriffants […]. Mathilde Seigner, naturelle in un rôle insupportable, face à un Chabat très terne. ” See Trésor . In: Télérama , November 11, 2009.
- ^ "Les amoureux des chiens pardonneront au scénario son manque de mordant." Pierre Vavasseur in Le Parisien quoted. according to allocine.fr
- ↑ The little house tyrant. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
