Edouard and Caroline
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Edouard and Caroline |
| Original title | Édouard and Caroline |
| Country of production | France |
| original language | French |
| Publishing year | 1951 |
| length | 85 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Jacques Becker |
| script |
Annette Wademant Jacques Becker |
| production | Raymond Borderie |
| music | Jean-Jacques Grunenwald |
| camera | Robert Lefebvre |
| cut | Marguerite Renoir |
| occupation | |
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Edouard and Caroline is a French feature film by Jacques Becker about a young marriage with its little everyday obstacles and misunderstandings. The eponymous couple is played by Daniel Gélin and Anne Vernon .
action
Édouard and Caroline Mortier are a young modern couple in contemporary France in the early 1950s. He works as a pianist and thus takes care of the small family more badly than usual, they come from a good, wealthy family. The young couple lives in a modest apartment that they have furnished nicely. Caroline's uncle Claude Beauchamp is planning a nice evening party. Édouard, who currently has no engagement and dreams of artistic fame, is supposed to show his talent here and perform a number of piano pieces. Since he lacks the corresponding tuxedo for the glamorous frame and he cannot afford to buy one, Édouard decides to borrow it from Alain Beauchamp, his wife's cousin.
Even Caroline doesn't want to appear like that in this heavily snobbish company; she has a very special evening dress tailored to suit the “modern” style and the glamorous soirée. When her husband returns from Alain, a dispute breaks out from this newly tailored evening gown, which turns into a veritable marriage crisis - including allegations, slaps and the desire for a divorce, after Édouard, whose concert also made a big impression, went into the Had thrown her cousin's arms. After a whole night of marital warfare, Édouard and Caroline finally reconcile in the early morning.
Production notes
Edouard and Caroline was written from November 14, 1950 to January 13, 1951 and was premiered on April 6, 1951 in Paris. The German premiere took place on May 22, 1953.
Jacques Colombier designed the film structures, Marcel Camus and Michel Clément assisted director Becker.
In those scenes in which Daniel Gélin pretends to play the piano as a pianist, the hands of the professional pianist Thierry de Brunhoff can be seen.
Reviews
"Only the delightful French film ' Édouard et Caroline ' was a real film amusement , in which Jacques Becker lightly directs the cheerful game about Ann Vernon and Daniel Gelin."
“The director and author Jacques Becker (' The Girl with the Gold Helmet') ignites a highly Parisian, sometimes loving, sometimes elegantly sneering film in an insignificant marital row. Time: a single evening. Location: two apartments, a small, friendly one, in which the young couple quarrels and reconciles, and a splendid one, in which the fine society makes a credible, silly effort and has fun. "
"The film lives from its situations, from excellent actors and excellent, mischievous dialogues."
Web links
- Edouard and Caroline in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Edouard and Caroline. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed April 29, 2017 .