Three Rooms in Manhattan (film)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Three rooms in Manhattan |
| Original title | Trois chambres à Manhattan |
| Country of production | France |
| original language |
French English |
| Publishing year | 1965 |
| length | 104 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Marcel Carné |
| script | Marcel Carné Jacques Sigurd based on the novel of the same name by Georges Simenon |
| production | Charles Lumbroso |
| music |
Times Waldron Martial Solal |
| camera | Eugen Schüfftan |
| cut | Henri Rust |
| occupation | |
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Drei Zimmer in Manhattan is a French feature film from 1965 directed by Marcel Carné and starring Annie Girardot , Maurice Ronet and OE Hasse .
action
The focus is on two people whose paths cross in New York. The first place of action is still France. There is the film actor François Combe, a handsome, middle-aged man who is married to the attractive, elegant, and about the same age Yolande, a celebrated stage actress. He owes his career primarily to her. Both live a carefree, luxurious but nevertheless monotonous married life full of empty routine. One evening Yolande makes it clear to him that she has had enough of him, because she has met a new "toy", a young actor, whom she has lost her heart to. She demands a divorce. François then throws his anchor in France and moves to the USA to work for television there. But here he runs aground with his dreams - the hope of a career start in Hollywood is not fulfilled - and he goes to New York; where, in the face of notorious role poverty, alcohol threatens to become his best friend.
One night in Manhattan he meets Kay, a lonely soul like him, who helps him with his first order in English - he asks for a chef's salad with a hard-boiled egg. Kay was once married to an ambassador, Count Larsi of Italy, whom she had left because of a younger man. Their young daughter left Kay with her husband. Kay is a job hopper and can only make ends meet moderately. If they get over the problems, Kay likes to seek out the crowd and share with other people. This time it happens that François meets by chance and Kay listens carefully. Afterwards, it is already late in the evening, they leave the bar and wander through the asphalt jungle of Manhattan. Finally they both land in front of the small Sherman Hotel. They take a room there. It will be just a stopover for two drifters, and François will be the first to get out of bed. He goes to Kay in the bathroom, where she is in the tub. After a while she gets up again and gets dressed. Both are returning to the streets of Manhattan with their bars and giving themselves back to the life of the night owls. A drink here and a drink there, a little chat about Kay's eventful life, and the night owls move on. After Kay has practically spread her entire life and her husbands to the good listener François, the two return to their hotel room.
The next morning, François takes to the streets. It seems as if he wants to run away, but then he returns to the hotel room and sits on the edge of the sleeping Kay's bed. When she got up, they both go on a morning walk through Central Park . Then François Kay shows his room in Manhattan. Combe then goes to his artist agent, Hourvitch, to start a new attempt at acting, spurred on by the burgeoning love for Kay. He gets a role and asks en passant if Hourvitch could do something for a woman he knew in her thirties. Hourvitch makes it clear to François that for women of this age in America, where the beautiful, young look is everything, the train has already “left”. François also asks his agent if he knew Count Larsi from the time he was working in Rome. Hourvitch tells him that the Italian diplomat was disdainfully abandoned by his wife at the time, Kay, for a gigolo. In view of this information, which was devastating for him, François stands by himself for a moment. He calls his apartment from a bar. Kay picks it up, but François is silent and hangs up again. Kay is now rummaging around the bars that the two of them had visited last night and comes across her last lover Pierre, a flight captain who has just arrived and is angry with her that he did not get into both of the apartments he paid for. An argument ensues in one of the bars. At that moment François enters the bar and sees the two of them together. He turns around and goes outside, Kay breaks away from Pierre and runs after François.
Kay doesn't understand François' reaction, and in the evening, when they see Kay again, the two of them fight for the first time. He makes it clear to her that he has had this situation before and does not want to relive it: that a woman will leave him because of a younger man. In his anger, he accuses her of having obviously slept with many men, even here in New York. He hits Kay twice in the face, but she forgives him. Your love for him has already grown very strong. Then you go back to Pierre's apartment so that Kay can pick up her things from there. Kay soon receives news that her daughter Michèle, who lives in Mexico City with her father, the current Italian ambassador to Mexico, is sick. Kay flies there immediately. The encounter with her rigid ex-husband is frosty, you have perfect conversation and talk to each other but perfectly past each other. Meanwhile, Hourvitch takes François and another client, curvy blonde June, out to a pub. When Hourvitch has to go to an appointment, he leaves the two of them alone. But François is not a good conversationalist, all his thoughts are with Kay in Mexico City. The conversation between the two of them quickly comes to Kay. Late in the evening they both go to François' room and end up in his bed. After sleeping with June, the phone rings him awake. At the other end is Kay, who immediately and intuitively senses that something is wrong. Kay announced that she wanted to return to New York tomorrow. When he returns to his apartment, she is already sitting in front of the door. Kay had taken an earlier flight. She quickly senses that something is wrong. François confesses to her fling with June, whereupon Kay immediately takes her suitcase and storms out of the apartment. François stops her in the stairwell and confesses his love to Kay. They both go out arm in arm.
Production notes
Three Rooms in Manhattan was created in 1965 in New York City (exterior shots) and the Studios de Boulogne (interior shots) and was premiered on November 10, 1965 in Paris. In Germany, the strip started on January 14, 1966.
The title-giving three rooms in Manhattan are François' room, Kay's room and finally the hotel room in which the two protagonists spend their first night together.
The future television star from Germany, Fritz Wepper , and the future Hollywood superstar Robert De Niro - here in his second film role - are each said to have made a very short appearance here, but could not be seen in the present version. Even Robert Hoffmann silent appearance is limited to a full three seconds: He plays the waiting outside the house Yolandes in an open sports car lovers of the much older artist.
Léon Barsacq designed the film structures together with the costume designer Mayo, who was not named in the credits .
Awards
At the Venice International Film Festival , the leading actress Annie Girardot received two prizes, including the Volpi Cup. A nomination for the Golden Lion went to Marcel Carné.
criticism
"Well-groomed chamber play with nuanced representation and good milieu drawing."
Individual evidence
Web links
- Three Rooms in Manhattan in the Internet Movie Database (English)