The Canadian trip
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | The Canadian trip |
| Original title | Le fils de Jean |
| Country of production |
France Canada |
| original language |
French English |
| Publishing year | 2016 |
| length | 98 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 6 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Philippe Lioret |
| script | Philippe Lioret |
| production |
Marielle Duigou Philippe Lioret |
| music | Flemming Nordkrog |
| camera | Philippe Guilbert |
| cut | Andrea Sedlácková |
| occupation | |
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The Canadian Journey is a French - Canadian drama directed by Philippe Lioret from 2016. It is loosely based on the novel Si ce livre pouvait me rapprocher de toi by Jean-Paul Dubois .
action
The 33-year-old employee Mathieu, who lives in Paris , receives a call from Montréal : His father, Jean Edel, whom he never met, recently passed away and left him a parcel. Mathieu decides to travel to Canada for his father's funeral to find out who he was. Jean also had two other sons that Mathieu wants to meet. At the airport he is expected by Jean's long-time friend, the doctor Pierre, who drives him to the hotel. Pierre is not happy that Mathieu has come to Montréal, since Jean’s family is unaware of his existence. When Mathieu checked into his hotel, Pierre gave him the jeans package that he actually wanted to send by post. It contains the painting of a boy looking up. The painting is valuable and Mathieu thinks he cannot accept it because he did not even know his father.
Pierre tells Mathieu about Jean: He met Mathieu's mother once at a medical congress in Paris that Jean and Pierre attended. They fell in love, but Jean flew home on schedule. After the news of the pregnancy, neither Jean nor Mathieu's mother had any further contact, but Jean regretted that throughout his life. Pierre doesn't want Mathieu to contact his brothers Samuel and Benjamin. When Mathieu begins to look for his siblings on his own, Pierre finally makes contact. Jean drowned while fishing on a lake: the body has not yet been found. Samuel and Benjamin plan to look for the body, and Pierre and Mathieu join in. Pierre introduces Mathieu as the son of a friend from France. During the short time at the lake, Mathieu realizes that his brothers are unsympathetic: While Benjamin hopes to find the body in order to get the death certificate and thus Jean's inheritance faster, Samuel reacts aggressively and angrily after drinking alcohol. After the first night, Mathieu no longer sees any point in staying in Canada; the dead person has no meaning for him, but his own son, who lives with his ex-wife and whose judo tournament he would miss because of the funeral, is.
Mathieu decides to leave before the funeral. He wants to return the painting to the family so that Pierre gives him a stethoscope from his father, who like him was a doctor. Pierre's daughter Bettina sees the old picture the evening before Mathieu's departure and realizes that Pierre had once seen it in a gallery and was enthusiastic about it. Jean, however, could afford it and bought it immediately. In an old photo, Mathieu finally discovers the stethoscope that Pierre gave him - it was Pierre and he was actually the one who had a love affair with Mathieu's mother. Mathieu learns from Pierre's wife, Angie, that Pierre has terminal cancer but refuses to undergo chemotherapy. She asks Mathieu to talk to him. Mathieu makes it clear to Pierre that he knows that he and not Jean is his father. On the way to the airport, Angie also begins to become suspicious. Shortly before leaving, Mathieu explains to his father that he would like to see him again - healthy. Pierre agrees. Mathieu and Pierre look at each other without saying a word for a long time. Mathieu takes the picture with him to Paris.
production
The Canadian trip was filmed in France and Canada from May to July 2015. Filming locations included Paris, Montréal, a lake near Saint-Zénon and Montreal-Trudeau Airport . The costumes created Ginette Magny that Filmbauten come from Yves Brover-Rabinovici and Colombe Raby . The central painting in the film is a work from the 19th century entitled Jeune garçon levant les yeux au ciel . The working title of the film was Le garçon and Les yeux au ciel .
The Canadian trip had its premiere on August 28, 2016 at the Festival du film francophone d'Angoulême and was shown in French cinemas three days later. The German theatrical release was on December 14, 2017.
criticism
“Nothing is as it seems in this French family film,” stated the Mittelbayerische Zeitung : “With a relaxed feel and a keen sense for nuances, director Philippe Lioret tells of long-kept secrets and the discovery of new connections.” The Tagesspiegel found that “ not a film for the impatient ”, and called The Canadian Journey interesting in summary. For the Süddeutsche Zeitung , Die Canadische Reise was a “small, haunting thriller”. The bell wrote that Lioret "has staged a sensitive relationship drama that is peppered with surprises and false tracks and ends in the end a touch too leisurely and harmoniously." It is a "warm-hearted film with twists and turns and revelations that do not make a loud sound." Conflicts, but on quiet [...] nuances. ”“ So natural, so modest, and precisely because of this, cinema can be so earth-shattering in its best moments, ”said Die Furche , and called The Canadian Journey a“ cinematic jewel ”.
Awards
Philippe Lioret was nominated for the Prix TV5Monde at the Dutch Film by the Sea film festival in 2016. Gabriel Arcand won the Beijing International Film Festival's Tiantian Award in 2017 for his portrayal of Pierre and was nominated for a César for Best Supporting Actor. In 2017, Pierre Deladonchamps received a nomination for the Prix Lumières for Best Actor and a César nomination for Best Actor .
Web links
- The Canadian trip in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- The Canadian trip at allocine.fr
Individual evidence
- ↑ According to the credits of the film, painting on tableau-et-peinture.com .
- ↑ Le fils de Jean at collections.cinematheque.qc.ca
- ↑ In search of the biological father . In: Mittelbayerische Zeitung , December 14, 2017.
- ↑ Lars Penning: The Canadian Journey . In: Der Tagesspiegel , December 14, 2017, p. 5.
- ↑ Now in the cinema: The Canadian Journey . In: Süddeutsche Zeitung , December 14, 2017, p. 10.
- ↑ Johannes von der Gathen: Relationship drama relies on harmony . In: Die Glocke , December 14, 2017, p. 16.
- ↑ Thomas Taborsky: “They don't know that you exist” . In: Die Furche , June 21, 2018, p. 20.