Suzanne's unshakable love

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Movie
German title Suzanne's unshakable love
Original title Suzanne
Country of production France
original language French
Publishing year 2013
length 94 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director Katell Quillévéré
script Mariette Désert
Katell Quillévéré
production Gaëtan David
Bruno Levy
camera Tom Harari
cut Thomas Marchand
occupation

Suzanne's Unshakable Love is a 2013 French drama directed by Katell Quillévéré .

action

After the death of their mother, the two sisters Suzanne and Maria grow up alone with their father Nicolas, who is a truck driver. The younger Suzanne becomes pregnant while she is still at school. Her father is angry, but initially they seem to be able to cope with the addition of the family, even without the child's father. But then Suzanne falls in love with Julien and first gives up her job to be with him, and when he goes into hiding for criminal activities, she even leaves her son behind and goes with Julien. For more than a year she disappeared without a trace, and although during this time Maria and the father take care of little Charlie very lovingly and as much as they can, the social welfare authorities become aware of the child's living conditions, and so he becomes eventually assigned to a foster family.

Suzanne has to serve a prison sentence because of a break-in that she and Julien committed. Julien herself is not caught. During her detention, she is only visited by Maria, but her father cannot bring himself to do it. Released again, Suzanne attempts suicide. At the first contact with Charlie, she and her visibly older son encounter one another, clearly estranged.

Suzanne finds work as a waitress in a restaurant. On the way home one evening she discovers Julien and drives him to his hideaway, where he lives under a false identity. He also got her a forged passport. He recently bought a house for himself and Suzanne in Morocco with looted money. The two are now starting to smuggle drugs into France on a large scale. Suzanne refrains from paying Charlie a personal Christmas visit, instead she lays him a present in the foster family's garden.

At her mother's grave, Suzanne is shaken by the discovery that her sister Maria was killed in a traffic accident. During a customs check, Suzanne surrenders to the authorities and is arrested again. She lives in prison with her little daughter who she had with Julien. There she is visited by her father and Charlie, whom she can now look openly and freely in the face for the first time.

reception

For the FAZ , the film is "despite its occasionally bumpy and uncertain narrative style, not a wasted time" because it shows "what it means to stay true to your own inner direction, even if it inevitably leads to the loser road."

The Guardian writes: "[...] The brilliant thing about Quillévéré's direction is the performance she elicits from her actors, as well as the sharp-sighted, unbiased manner with which she stages them."

Awards (selection)

Adèle Haenel won the César 2014 for Best Supporting Actress for her performance .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Release certificate for the unshakable love of Suzanne . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , June 2014 (PDF; test number: 145 410 K).
  2. ↑ Andreas Kilb : Dance with Fate: "The unshakable love of Suzanne" in the cinema. In: faz.net . Retrieved August 11, 2015 .
  3. ↑ Cannes 2013: Suzanne - review | Movie. In: theguardian.com . Retrieved on August 11, 2015 : " [...] the brilliance of Quillévéré's direction is in the performances she coaxes from her cast, and the clear-eyed, non-judgmental way she presents them " .