The prisoner (film)

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Movie
German title The prisoner
Original title La captive
Country of production France
original language French
Publishing year 2000
length 107 minutes
Age rating FSK 16
Rod
Director Chantal Akerman
script Chantal Akerman
Eric de Kuyper
production Paolo Branco
music The Isle of the Dead , by Sergei Rachmaninoff
camera Sabine Lancelin
cut Claire Atherton
occupation

The prisoner (original title: La Captive ) is a film by Chantal Akerman from the year 2000. The film is based on motifs from Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time , in particular from the volumes Die Gefangene ( La Prisonnière ).

action

Paris. The modern-looking outside world of the year 2000. At a time that nevertheless remains strangely indefinite.

About thirty-year-old Simon lives in a large apartment and - for a while now - Ariane, who seems a little younger than him, lives with him. He loves her, but he also wants to own her. He wants to know everything about her, follows her when she leaves the house, or lets Ariane's friend tell him what they did together. Simon sexually harasses Ariane and presses her with his ever more insistent questions. She lets him - as if uninvolved - and always answers without hesitation, but in vague sentences.

When Simon realizes that Ariane is drawn to women, he wants to separate from her. He drives her to a country house, thinks about it, wants to make a new beginning with her. That same evening they drive to a hotel on the Atlantic coast.

The next morning, Simon will ask himself: Did Ariane drown in the sea?  

reception

The film premiered in May 2000 at the Cannes Festival , where it was screened in the Quinzaine des Réalisateurs series . In Germany, the film came to a few cinemas two years later.

“ La Captive is a serious film, also an intellectual film that has become rare even in French cinema,” wrote Andrea Dittgen in October 2002 in the film service . The response from the public and, with a few exceptions, the press response was correspondingly low. Although, wrote the Munich film critic Fritz Göttler, Chantal Akerman showed others who tried to film Proust's research "how it is done". The film received appropriate appreciation through a review by Ulrich Peltzer published in ZEIT . He wrote: “The prisoners' staff (conjugated) one last time the constellations of a desire, a gender relationship, of which the present hardly has a clue." Calm (or emptiness, or slowness) has an amazing pull. "

DVD

  • 2009: filmedition suhrkamp / absolut MEDIEN. ISBN 978-3-518-13509-9 . (French original version with German subtitles.)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Republished in: Retrospective Chantal Akerman , Viennale 2011, p.157. ISBN 978-3-901770-29-6 .
  2. ↑ Quoted from the cover text on the DVD publication in filmedition suhrkamp.
  3. ↑ Republished in: Booklet of the DVD release in the filmedition suhrkamp.