Don't Look Back - Shadows of the Past
Don't Look Back - Shadow of the Past (Original title: Ne te retourne pas ) is a 2009 thriller with Sophie Marceau and Monica Bellucci , which was a co-production between France , Italy , Luxembourg and Belgium .
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The French journalist Jeanne wants to record her own biography with her first novel. However, due to an accident in her childhood, she cannot remember the time before her eighth birthday. When she witnesses a car accident, Jeanne begins to cry. She then picks up her son and daughter from her mother Nadia. While she is preparing dinner for the children and her husband Teo at home, she films Teo with a camera. When they later look at the recordings together, Jeanne notices that the dining table is set differently than usual. Teo and the children are amazed at their observation. The next morning, Jeanne is still confused and therefore looks at older photos of the apartment, which only make her even more insecure. Her surroundings change more and more before her eyes. Her children and Teo also seem increasingly strange to her.
One evening Jeanne looks at herself in the mirror and is shocked when suddenly half of her face shows another woman. Teo tries to comfort her. When they sleep together, Jeanne panics and pushes Teo, who seems strange to her, away. She eventually goes to a psychiatrist and describes her obvious delusions to him. In order to come to terms with herself again, she wants to take a break. She seeks refuge with her mother Nadia, but Nadia, who likes to play poker, is currently in a casino. Jeanne finds her there and asks her to go with her. While she is waiting for her mother, Jeanne transforms completely into the other woman. Her light brown hair is now black and her green eyes are brown. In her mother's apartment, she also takes on a different shape. Emotionally overwhelmed, Jeanne withdraws to her old nursery. There she finds a photo from her childhood in a drawer, which shows her as a blonde girl. Next to her, two women can be seen on it - one of them is the woman she now sees as her mother; the other is the woman she had previously perceived as her mother.
To find an explanation for her strange sensory perceptions, Jeanne travels by train to the Italian city where the photo was once taken. In a restaurant she meets the woman who she thinks is her real mother. When she speaks to the woman - the landlady of the house - she reacts angrily and gives Jeanne to understand that she doesn't know her. In Gianni, the woman's son, Jeanne recognizes her husband Teo again. However, he does not recognize her, but allows himself to be seduced by her. As they sleep together, Jeanne notices that Gianni feels different to Teo and urges him to stop. Gianni is confused about her behavior. While she thought she knew him, Jeanne only reminded him of a person who was long dead. One evening Jeanne follows a girl in black curls through the streets of the city and finally arrives at the restaurant, where a party is currently taking place. Jeanne gets into the living room of the house and hears the landlady arguing with her husband. In a bedroom, Jeanne begins to shrink and she transforms into the girl with black curls. The landlady then comes in and tells the girl that she has matured into a beautiful woman.
As it turns out, the landlady is Jeanne's real mother and Gianni is her brother. Jeanne's real name is Rosa. As a child, Rosa made friends with Jeanne when she was on vacation with her parents in Italy. Rosa accompanied Jeanne and her parents on an excursion. On the way there was a car accident that killed Jeanne. Rosa, on the other hand, lost her memory, no longer recognized her real mother and went to France with Jeanne's mother. Finally, Rosa travels back to France by train. On the way she turns back into the grown-up Jeanne with light brown hair and green eyes. At home she is greeted by Teo and their children. Suddenly she sees the black-haired Jeanne in front of her, who is talking to Teo instead of her. She smiles at Jeanne. The two women later sit together in front of a computer to write Jeanne's novel.
background
Originally, Emmanuelle Devos and Béatrice Dalle were planned for the main roles . The shooting took place under the working title Autrement (Eng .: "Different") from October 22, 2007 to January 24, 2008 in Paris , Luxembourg and in Lecce , Italy. The work on the special effects took more than ten months.
The film premiered on May 16, 2009 at the Cannes Film Festival, where it was screened out of competition. It was released in French cinemas on June 3, 2009. In Germany, Don't Look Back - Shadows of the Past was shown for the first time on September 19, 2009 at the Oldenburg International Film Festival . In 2010 the film was released on DVD. The television premiere followed on September 21, 2011 on Tele 5 .
Reviews
The lexicon of international films describes the film as "[s] anfte [n] psychological thriller of solid tension, which develops the tricky plot with classical means". For Cinema , Don't Look Back - Shadows of the Past was an “[o] riginal psycho trip” that was “doubly played out”.
According to Prisma , “this thematically interesting surreal mix of thriller and psychological study” would have had potential in and of itself. Especially since the film with Sophie Marceau and Monica Bellucci “two top stars of the international cinema scene” were available. In the end, however, de Van's feature film debut is disappointing. At the beginning it was “extremely exciting”, “but then dragged along until the dissolution [...] that the viewer more and more doesn't care what is actually behind the protagonist's crisis”. In addition, there are “some unbelievable and strange scenes” at the expense of the pleasure “which therefore consists almost exclusively of looking at the two beautiful leading actresses”.
Awards
When Sitges Film Festival was shadows of the past - Do not Look Back nominated for Best Picture.
German version
The German dubbed version was created in MME Studios and at RRP Media in Berlin . Rainer Raschewski directed the dialogue .
| role | actor | Voice actor |
|---|---|---|
| Jeanne | Sophie Marceau | Judith Brandt |
| Jeanne / Rosa Maria | Monica Bellucci | Christin Marquitan |
| Teo 2 | Thierry Neuvic | Viktor Neumann |
| Nadia 1 / Italian mother | Brigitte Catillon | Karin Buchholz |
| psychiatrist | Adrien de Van | Rainer Fritzsche |
| Robert | Didier Flamand | Jürgen Kluckert |
Web links
- Do not Look Back - shadows of the past in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Do not Look Back - shadows of the past at Rotten Tomatoes (English)
- Pictures of the film on cinema.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Release certificate for Don't Look Back - Shadows of the Past . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , May 2010 (PDF; test number: 122 885 V).
- ↑ a b c cf. allocine.fr
- ↑ cf. festival-cannes.com
- ↑ Don't Look Back - Shadows of the Past. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed February 19, 2020 .
- ↑ cf. cinema.de
- ↑ cf. prisma.de
- ↑ cf. sitgesfilmfestival.com
- ↑ Don't Look Back - Shadows of the Past. In: synchronkartei.de. German dubbing file , accessed on February 25, 2020 .