The lighthouse keeper's wife

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Movie
German title The lighthouse keeper's wife
Original title L'Équipier
Country of production France
original language French
Publishing year 2004
length 105 minutes
Age rating FSK 6
Rod
Director Philippe Lioret
script Emmanuel Courcol
Claude Faraldo
Gilles Legrand
Philippe Lioret
Christian Sinniger
production Christophe Rossignon
music Nicola Piovani
camera Patrick Blossier
cut Mireille Leroy
occupation

The lighthouse keeper's wife (original title: L'Équipier , for example: team player, team member) is a film by the French film director Philippe Lioret from 2004. While it was released in France on November 3, 2004, it only ran in Germany on June 16 of the following year. The shooting took place in the locations of Crespières ( Yvelines department ), Villeparisis ( Seine-et-Marne department ) and on the island of Ouessant ( Finistère department ).

action

Years later, Camille returns to her place of birth, the small island of Ouessant on the Breton coast. There she wants to sell the house, which has been vacant since the death of her mother Mabé. During the clearing out, she finds a book that had been sent to her mother. On the cover you can see the lighthouse " La Jument " (The Mare), her father's former workplace. She spends a whole night reading the book. The next morning she learned about events in her mother's life that were previously completely unknown to her. On the way back to the mainland, Camille cancels the notary appointment.

So much for the framework. The real story takes place earlier. 1963 on Ouessant: During the funeral meal for the deceased father of the beautiful Mabé a stranger appears. Antoine has just returned from the Algerian war. He should strengthen the troop of lighthouse keepers. The residents are initially hostile towards strangers, which only changes when the foreman of the lighthouse keepers, Mabé's husband Yvon, takes his side.

Together, Yvon and Antoine master dangerous and also a little bizarre situations on the lighthouse off the island. In contrast to the stubborn men, the women show keen interest in the new. The young, attractive Brigitte is courting him and Mabé also seems more than insecure in Antoine's presence. Working together in a canning factory, where Antoine earns money between his lighthouse shifts, brings them closer together. On the night of the fireworks on the occasion of July 14th, Mabé and Antoine have a passionate affair.

Antoine then realizes that he has to leave the island. Before he leaves, he reveals a terrible secret from his war mission to the islanders - as if he wanted to destroy their ties to him forever. Whether this is the truth remains open. Nevertheless, it will leave its mark on the island. Mabé and Yvon's marriage had previously remained childless. Although never openly addressed, the viewer becomes clear through various clues that Camille is Antoine's daughter.

Reviews

The lexicon of international films judged that the “partly classic, partly unusual story about male friendship, love and hate in an extreme situation” was staged with “documentary and nostalgic elements” and came to the conclusion: “The calmly flowing film is from its inner Tension and solid leading actors. "

Matthias Heine wrote in the Berliner Morgenpost that the lighthouse keeper's wife is “one of those works in which tastes are forever divided. Some praise the French who can create love stories like no other film people. ”As a contrast, he names the less well-intentioned who“ would dismiss the film as Rosamunde Pilcher in French ”. He counters this, however, by saying that Lioret's creation differs "through the extraordinary actors and the precision of the dialogue."

The film magazine epd Film came to the conclusion that Lioret's nostalgic film about a forbidden love “ties in with the melodramatic traditions of pre-war French films.” Lioret gently modernizes them and tells “with a mixture of ardor and restraint, in which every intermediate note is audible. "

Trivia

The lighthouse seen from the island

Antoine has a crippled left hand that is in a leather cuff. In a longer scene (roughly in the middle of the film) the right hand is surprisingly wearing a cuff. In this scene Antoine is walking with Mabé outside the village and a cyclist with fishing equipment comes towards them. Apparently the scene has been copied the wrong way round, which can be seen in comparison with a later scene by the position of Mabé's bicycle bell and by the way Antoine's shirt is buttoned.

Awards

César 2005 (nominations):

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. The wife of the lighthouse keeper. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  2. Surging passions . In: Berliner Morgenpost , June 16, 2005
  3. epd.de ( Memento of the original from September 8, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 6/2005  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.epd.de