Divas in the ring
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Divas in the ring |
| Original title | Les reines du ring |
| Country of production | France |
| original language | French |
| Publishing year | 2013 |
| length | 97 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Jean-Marc Rudnicki |
| script |
Manon Dillys Marie Pavlenko |
| production |
Fabrice Goldstein Thomas Langmann Antoine Rein |
| music | Fred Avril |
| camera | Antoine Monod |
| cut | Antoine Vareille |
| occupation | |
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Diven im Ring is a French comedy film directed by Jean-Marc Rudnicki from 2013 .
action
The cashiers Colette, Evelyne and Jessica as well as Viviane from the meat counter at the Happy Market supermarket have little to laugh about under the meticulous boss Sandrine Pédrono. Each of them depends on the job - including the Neue Rose, who has just been released from prison. She needs a job to at least theoretically have the chance to get her son Mickaël back, who has been living in a foster family for five years. She tells her new colleagues that she was convicted of receiving stolen goods. When she learns that Mickaël is a big wrestling fan, she decides to become a wrestler for him. She turns to old Richard, who was formerly known as catcher Richard the Lionheart , but now trains boxers. He's not thrilled to work as a catcher trainer, but agrees when Rose finds fellow campaigners. She can convince Colette, Evelyne and Jessica to give catching a try. Since the overweight Evelyne was injured and dropped out during the first training session, the bitter Viviane joins the team.
A trial training match with four of Richard's former colleagues shows the four divas from Happy Market that they still have a long training path ahead of them. The pressure grows when they learn that bar owner Tonio has already planned a match against a group of notorious Mexican women and begins to market it. The four now use every free minute to practice and build a small training area on the roof of the supermarket. The good climate worsens when the women learn that Rose lied about her prison sentence. In reality, she was involved in a brawl in which a man died. Rose is even eventually fired after carelessly destroying Sandrine's car. Rose takes her frustration out on Colette at a training match in front of an audience, who she actually attacks and injures in front of her son. Then it disappears. Tonio now refuses to continue to present the divas from the supermarket in his program. It seems like it was all in vain.
The divas have become known locally through a small fight in a disco that found its way onto the Internet via video. Under pressure from customers, Sandrine is forced to hire Rose again. The training continues and soon all women have found the characters they want to portray on stage. Colette goes as a kind of Wonder Woman, Jessica as a seductive cowgirl, Viviane as the creepy butcher and Rose as Lara Croft. The training also helps some of them through personal crises, so Colette finally realizes that her husband has been cheating on her for a long time and can leave him while the evil-looking Viviane begins to accept her appearance, even if she would much rather appear good.
In the wrestling fight against the Mexicans, Rose is suddenly missing. She wanted to talk to her son, who wanted nothing more to do with her after the training match that had gone wrong, but he would not allow it. Now she questions the whole plan; she throws away her Lara Croft costume. It's Richard who can get her to come back to the competition hall. He gives her the ring suit that his late wife once wore. The divas do well in the ring, but fail to defeat the Mexicans. Nevertheless, they are celebrated by the audience after the end and Rose and Mickaël are getting closer again.
production
Diven im Ring was the feature film directorial debut of screenwriter Jean-Marc Rudnicki, who until then had only directed TV series. The film was made with support from WWE . WWE wrestlers like Eve Torres , CM Punk and The Miz appeared in the film. Film scenes were made in the Palais Omnisports de Paris-Bercy , in the Zénith de Lille and in the Arènes de l'Agora in Évry . The supermarket was in the Intermarché de la Mackellerie in Roubaix . The costumes were created by Claire Lacaze and Marie-Laure Lasson , while the film construction was done by Jean-Marc Tran Tan Ba .
After the WWE Studios also took over the marketing of the film in the USA , they acquired the filming rights to realize a remake .
The film premiered on June 12, 2013 at the Festival du Film de Cabourg and also opened in French cinemas on July 3, 2013, where it was seen by around 254,000 viewers. The film was released in German cinemas on April 24, 2014.
criticism
In France, the film received mixed to negative reviews. While Pierre Vavasseur in the tabloid Le Parisien attested the actresses “unprecedented representations”, Christophe Carrière said in the weekly magazine L'Express that this “attractive idea sometimes offers amusing scenes”, “but the script was not written well enough”, “ to be able to impress. "
The film service describes Diven im Ring as "a tongue-in-cheek comedy in the footsteps of Rocky , which scores with healthy realism, a lot of humor and friendly, down-to-earth actresses".
Awards
The film won the audience award at the Festival du Film de Cabourg.
Web links
- Queens of the Ring in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Secrets de tournage - Premier long on allocine.fr
- ↑ WWE Studios sets plans to remake French comedy 'Queens of the Ring' ('Les Reines du Ring') , wwe.com, online, (English)
- ↑ WWE Studios to Remake French Comedy 'Queens of the Ring' (EXCLUSIVE) , variety.com, online (English)
- ↑ See Box office on allocine.fr , online, (French)
- ↑ Des ch'tis au catch ** , leparisien.fr, online, (French)
- ↑ Les Reines du ring , lexpress.fr, online, (French)
- ↑ Divas in the ring. In: Filmdienst. Retrieved June 23, 2017 .