A summer in Provence
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | A summer in Provence |
| Original title | Avis de mistral |
| Country of production | France |
| original language | French |
| Publishing year | 2014 |
| length | 104 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 6 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Rose Bosch |
| script | Rose Bosch |
| production | Ilan Goldman |
| music | Elise Luguern |
| camera | Stéphane Le Parc |
| cut | Samuel Danési |
| occupation | |
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A summer in Provence (original title: Avis de mistral ) is a French comedy film by the director Rose Bosch from 2014. The cinema release in Germany and Austria was on September 25, 2014.
action
The siblings Léa, Adrien and their deaf little brother Théo are supposed to spend the summer holidays with their grandparents in the country. Her parents are divorced after 17 years of marriage, and the father has not lived with the family for a month. While mother Émilie is away on business, the three big city children are taken by train from their grandmother Irène from Paris to a village near Avignon in Provence. Grandfather Paul is presented with a fait accompli because he was not notified of the undertaking.
Émilie had fled her home for Paris at the age of 17 after discovering that she was pregnant and Paul did not accept the child's father. Contact between daughter and father broke off, only with her mother Irène Émilie remained in contact.
The children and their grandfather get to know each other for the first time. While Paul seems like a philistine from the grandchildren's point of view and they don't feel welcome, he considers the children to be ill-educated and disrespectful. The generation conflict and the differences between town and country make the situation more difficult. Already on the second day of their stay, Léa and Adrien consider breaking off their visit and returning to Paris, but are persuaded by their mother via Skype to give the situation another chance. The children try to settle in and get to know country life and village festivals better. Théo gets closer to his grandfather by helping him work in the vegetable garden and olive groves. While Léa falls in love with the pizza seller Tiago, Adrien flirts with the somewhat older, attractive ice cream seller Magali. After Adrien registers his grandfather Paul on Facebook without his consent, some of Paul's former rocker friends surprisingly come to visit and bring back memories of old hippie times.
When grandfather Paul reprimanded his granddaughter Léa for her skimpy clothing style at a village festival, an argument broke out in which Paul slapped her. Léa then leaves the village for a few days with Tiago. When grandfather Paul learns that Tiago is secretly dealing in drugs, he sets off on his old motorcycle in search of Léa and Tiago. In fact, Tiago gave Léa LSD to get her to have sex for the first time. When Paul finds the two of them, he threatens Tiago, brings his granddaughter Léa back to the village and makes up with her.
At the end of the summer, Grandfather Paul accompanies his grandchildren to the train station, where they see his daughter Émilie again.
production
The shooting of the film took place mainly in the village of Eygalières, southeast of Saint-Rémy-de-Provence , a few film sequences were shot in the neighboring Camargue area. The southern region of the Alpilles is the home of the director and screenwriter Rose Bosch.
This film is the second collaboration between Jean Reno and Rose Bosch after The Children of Paris .
The film was distributed in Germany by Concorde Filmverleih , in Austria by Filmladen Filmverleih .
The film has been available on DVD, Blu-ray and digitally since February 12, 2015.
synchronization
The German synchronization was based on a dialogue book and the dialogue direction by Heike Kospach on behalf of Christa Kistner Synchronproduktion GmbH in Potsdam .
| occupation | role | German voice |
|---|---|---|
| Jean Reno | Paul | Joachim Kerzel |
| Anna Galiena | Irène | Andrea Aust |
| Chloé Jouannet | Léa | Maximiliane Häcke |
| Hugo Dessioux | Adrien | Ricardo Richter |
| Aure Atika | Magali | Anna Grisebach |
| Tom Leeb | Tiago | Till Endemann |
Reviews
The director and screenwriter Rose Bosch herself says of her film that above all she wanted to “capture images of expansive horizons, freedom and an attitude towards life”. Most critics mention this aspect as particularly positive. For example Michael Meyns writes:
“Rose Bosch doesn't really have a feel for the correct dosage of clichés and well-known narrative patterns, but together with her cameraman Stéphane le Parc she manages to capture the picturesque landscape of Provence in bright colors, to film traditional village life and the festivals of summer and to create a lot of atmosphere. In combination with a sympathetic ensemble of actors, the countless clichés of the story can be easily overlooked, so that 'A Summer in Provence' ultimately becomes a very light, airy film. "
Despite critical comments, the German film and media rating FBW awarded this film the “rating valuable”.
“All the characters in the film are well chosen and the interaction with Jean Reno as the grandfather at the top is convincing. The camera is able to conjure up atmospheric pictures of the summery Provence, accompanied by a beautiful score, which was additionally enriched with the legendary songs of the 70s. Some of the jury criticized too many of the “side stories” brought into the story, such as grandfather Paul's alcoholism, Léa's drug dealer friend and the rifts between grandfather and absent mother.
However, the jury came to the conclusion: This film should first and foremost be a light, lively and richly illustrated summer vacation story in the wonderful Provence - and it fulfills that in every way! "
Web links
- A summer in Provence in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- A summer in Provence - Official website of the film (German)
Individual evidence
- ^ Certificate of Release for A Summer in Provence . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , August 2014 (PDF; test number: 146 382 K).
- ↑ A summer in Provence . In: KINO . ( kino.de [accessed on March 12, 2017]).
- ↑ A summer in Provence | Filmladen film rental. Retrieved on March 12, 2017 (German).
- ↑ The World of Filming Locations: A Summer in Provence . In: Filmtourismus.de . September 22, 2014 ( filmtourismus.de [accessed March 12, 2017]).
- ↑ A summer in Provence. Retrieved March 12, 2017 .
- ↑ a b Overview: Concorde Filmverleih. Retrieved March 12, 2017 .
- ↑ A summer in Provence | Filmladen film rental. Retrieved on March 12, 2017 (German).
- ↑ a b German synchronous index: German synchronous index | Movies | A summer in Provence. Retrieved March 13, 2017 .
- ↑ Ines Walk: A Summer in Provence • Contents • Film • Film Time . In: film-zeit.de: Portal about films and film people in front of and behind the camera . December 1, 2008 ( film-zeit.de [accessed on March 12, 2017]).
- ↑ http://www.programmkino.de/content/Filmkritiken/ein-sommer-in-der-provence/
- ↑ http://www.fbw-filmbeval.com/film/ein_sommer_in_der_provence