Donnant Donnant
Donnant Donnant is a 2010 French comedy film directed by Isabelle Mergault .
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Constant was sentenced to 11 years in prison for shooting a banker while hunting. Although he claims to be innocent because the shot went off on its own, it is enough for his wife: She separates from him because she met another man during his imprisonment. Shortly afterwards, Constant is admitted to hospital with a stroke . With difficulty he learns to speak and read again. In prison he sees a film in which two prisoners manage to escape because they threaten their guard with the splintered neck of a bottle. Constant imitates them, can overwhelm a nurse and finally flee in the hospital bib. He breaks into an old woman who believes he fled the hospital for fear of an operation. He receives clothes from her and ends up as a stowaway in a car transporter in a small village, where he finds accommodation in a wrecked houseboat. This is where the young Silvia discovers him the next morning when she is walking her dog. Silvia recognizes him as an escaped convict, as the news had reported about his escape shortly before. She wants to call the police first, but then changes her mind. She makes Constant an offer: If he kills her adoptive mother Jeanne, she will let him go without informing the police. Jeanne has been depressed since the death of her husband Paolo and wants to die. Silvia, on the other hand, longs for her death because with the inheritance she could finally go to Paris and begin studying the piano there. For years she has been earning her living teaching the unmusical village youth instead. Constantly forced to agree to Silvia's plan. She, in turn, introduces him to the village as a Finnish painter who doesn't speak a word of French and, after Silvia's wrong line of thought, also goes by the name “Paolo”.
Constant is supposed to murder Jeanne on her daily way to the cemetery. After some consideration, at Silvia's insistence, Constant decides to kill himself with a hammer. However, he does not manage to kill Jeanne. Instead, he watches as she fetches an accordion from her husband's grave , begins to play and later throws herself off a bridge into the deep river with the accordion strapped on. Constant jumps reflexively behind her and pulls her out of the water. Thanks to mouth-to-mouth resuscitation , he can reanimate her and she falls in love with him at first sight. In the following days Jeanne blossoms, dyes her white hair red and dresses youthfully. To keep Silvia from filing a complaint with the police, Constant promises her to get the money for her life in Paris. Jeanne Constant invites you to dinner through Silvia. Here he confesses to her that he speaks French because he learned it in Finland. The evening runs with several attempts at seduction emanating from Jeanne. In the end, Constant implies that the two of them could only live together if Silvia no longer lived in the village. With 30,000 euros she could go to Paris. The next day, astonished Silvia receives not only 30,000 euros from Jeanne, but also the next train connection to Paris. Silvia is offended because she has the feeling that her mother is putting her in front of the door. There is also an argument with Constant, who does not understand why she is dissatisfied. In fact, Silvia fell in love with Constant. In her anger, she makes fun of his stroke-related speech difficulties, and he angrily packs up and leaves. At a bus stop in the country, he notices a high level of police traffic and returns to the village. Only now does he confess to Silvia that he loves her and not her mother.
Jeanne renovates the houseboat with the villagers, while Silvia and Constant plan their escape from the village together. One day Jeanne sees a mug shot of Constant in the newspaper and now knows that her Paolo is a wanted criminal. The widow of the banker, whom Constant had once shot, also offers a reward of 200,000 euros for the capture of Constant. By chance, Jeanne learns of Silvia and Constant's escape plans, who don't want to go to Paris, but to Berlin . She secretly alerts the police who arrest Constant at the Menyville train station. He thinks Silvia betrayed him for the money. He ignores her visits and her letters that a cell neighbor receives as a pillow. On the other hand, he receives Jeanne in prison and one day confesses to her that he loved Silvia and believes that he has betrayed her. However, he quickly realizes that Jeanne has betrayed him, as she knows that they both wanted to flee to Berlin. Some time later, Constant is released early from prison because he has received mitigation by rescuing Jeanne. He knows from Jeanne that Silvia works as a hotel pianist in Paris. In the following years he searches all the hotels in the city until he finally finds them. He has a waiter deliver a song request - a piece that Silvia always played in her village. While she's playing, Constant walks up to her and they both beam happily at each other.
production
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Donnant Donnant was held from August 18 to November 30, 2009 under the working title Un homme très recherché in Paris and the Île-de-France region , including above all in Château-Landon (houseboat scenes) and in Souppes-sur-Loing , Saint- Maur-des-Fossés , Corbeil-Essonnes and Neauphle-le-Château , shot. The Menyville train station where Constant is arrested is actually Maule's train station building . The costumes are by Charlotte Betaillole , the set was created by Maamar Ech-Cheikh . The production costs amounted to around 12 million euros.
Director Isabelle Mergault's third film was released in French cinemas on October 6, 2010, where it was seen by 503,394 visitors. It was released on DVD in France in February 2011. It has not yet appeared in Germany (as of December 2013).
The title Donnant Donnant refers to a French idiom that can be translated in German as something like "Wie du mir, so ich dir".
criticism
Donnant Donnant received mostly negative reviews. L'Express called the starting point of the plot - a man agrees to the killing of a woman in order not to be betrayed to the police - as idiotic and called it incomprehensible how Gaumont could give money for such a ridiculous scenario. Director Isabelle Mergault doesn't tell a story, but gets lost in the depiction of annoying banalities. Premiere found that director Mergault and Donnant Donnant combine the (bad) works of Jean Becker with a sweet provincial atmosphere, typical French characters and a dispassionate dramaturgy in the film. Telerama called the film an accident; it consists mainly of hard-to-digest jokes and improbable events.
Liberation praised the film as Daniel Auteuil's comeback and reconciliation with the actor, but noted that the film was a thriller romance that also impressed beyond Auteuil's performance.
Web links
- Donnant Donnant in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Titre original / Durée de tournage on allocine.fr
- ↑ a b Donnant Donnant on allocine.fr
- ↑ Eric Libiot: Donnant Donnant - Isabelle Mergault raconte des banalités ennuyeuses . lexpress.fr, October 5, 2010.
- ↑ Christophe Narbonne: Donnant Donnant ( Memento from December 19, 2013 in the Internet Archive ). premiere.fr, accessed December 19, 2013.
- ↑ Guillemette Odicino: Donnant Donnant . telerama, October 6, 2010.
- ↑ Bayon: Daniel Auteuil in "Donnant Donnant" . next.liberation.fr, October 12, 2010.