A Simple Heart (2008)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | A simple heart |
| Original title | Un cœur simple |
| Country of production | France |
| original language | French |
| Publishing year | 2008 |
| length | 105 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Marion Laine |
| script | Marion Laine Nicolas Peufaillit |
| production |
Béatrice Caufman for Jean-Michel Rey |
| music | Cyril Morin |
| camera | Guillaume Schiffman |
| cut | Juliette Welfling |
| occupation | |
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A Simple Heart is a French drama directed by Marion Lane from 2008. It is based on a short story by Gustave Flaubert .
action
Normandy , around 1850: The inexperienced and gullible Félicité is courted by Théodore at a festival. He promises the inexperienced woman that he will take her to the sea and marry her. After spending the night together, he leaves her and tells other men in the village that she is easy to get. Desperate, Félicité leaves her job and makes her way through the forest to another village. Here she approaches the widow Mathilde Aubain, who is looking for a new housekeeper. Félicité receives the job and now takes care of the household, the kitchen and Mathilde's children Clémence and the slightly older boy Paul. Above all, the ailing Clémence suffers from the emotional coldness of her mother and clings to Félicité. Mathilde and later also Paul, however, prevent Félicité from becoming motherly.
Félicité travels to the sea with Mathilde and the children during the summer. When the group encounters a bull, Félicité chases the animal away, but breaks his foot in the process. Since Mathilde tells her that she has no major injury because she is forced to walk, the injury is not treated and Félicité retains a limp. Félicité has not forgotten Théodor, whose new job she even finds out. Nevertheless, she develops feelings for a court manager Mathildes, who wants to marry her. After a dispute about the treatment of the children, Félicité is ready to pack her things and go with him, but Mathilde asks her to stay mainly because of Clémence.
The children are getting bigger and Paul is the first to leave the house because he is attending boarding school. Clémence, too, has to leave her parents' home against her will and goes to a convent after communion . Félicité, in turn, happens to meet her sister again, whom she believed dead. Her nephew is Paul's age and now comes to see his aunt every weekend. Félicité flourishes during this time. After the children move out, the careworn Mathilde begins a relationship with her cello teacher Frédéric, but does not want to know anything about a marriage and releases him when he wants to take a new job in Rouen . Years go by and Paul is hired as a seaman on a ship that will take him to America for two years. Félicité is desperate - a few months later she receives the news that Victor shortly after the arrival in Havana of typhoid fever has died. She endures her suffering quietly.
Paul and Clémence have also gotten older. While Paul seems to love his life, Clémence breaks up alive in monastic captivity and dies. Only now does Mathilde recognize her love for her daughter and mourn her for her. Félicité, who was much closer to Clémence throughout his life, is allowed to take over the wake. About Clémence's death, both women come closer and give each other support in their pain. One day Mathilde receives the parrot Lulu from the neighbors, which she passes on to Félicité. Lulu is a great consolation for Félicité and she can give the bird all the love that she was never allowed to muster for people. One day Lulu has disappeared and Félicité is on the verge of despair. When Lulu suddenly reappears and lands on her shoulder, Félicité collapses. When she wakes up, she is numb. While she withdraws completely to Lulu in her quiet world, Mathilde prepares her own end. Lulu freezes to death in winter and Félicité has him stuffed. Mathilde again takes her own life in the spring with laudanum . Shortly afterwards, workers find Félicité struggling with death in her room. A procession of the virgins, in which old Félicité actually wanted to join, passes the window. Félicité cannot hear her singing, but enjoys the scent of the flowers that blow in through the window.
production
A simple heart is based on Flaubert's story A simple heart , which appeared in his work Drei Erzählungen . Giorgio Ferrara made the first film in 1977.
A simple heart was filmed in the Seine-Maritime department from March 2007 , including in La Ferté-Saint-Samson , Sommery , Saint-Aubin-sur-Mer (Seine Maritime) and Saint-Martin-Osmonville . Anaïs Romand created the costumes and Françoise Arnaud designed the films. It was the feature-length directing debut of Marion Lane, who had previously made short films, but mainly appeared as an actress.
The film opened in French cinemas on March 26, 2008. It was first shown in Germany on January 11, 2012 on arte .
The film bears the dedication “A la mémoire de Béatrice” (“In memory of Beatrice”) and is dedicated to Béatrice Caufman. She worked as a producer of the film from 2005 and died a few weeks before shooting began in January 2007.
synchronization
| role | actor | Voice actor |
|---|---|---|
| Félicité | Sandrine Bonnaire | Anne Moll |
| Mathilde Aubain | Marina Foïs | Susanne Sternberg |
| Frédéric | Thibault Vinçon | Tim Knauer |
criticism
The film-dienst called Ein simple Herz a "sensitive first film [...] about a tender-feeling woman who longs for warmth and security". Sandrine Bonnaire's “sensitive game” is particularly convincing.
"Theatrical pathos: brittle, but good!" Summarized Cinema .
Awards
At the Festival Internacional de Cine de Mar del Plata in 2008, Marion Lane received the SIGNIS Award (Honorable Mention) for A Simple Heart . The film was also nominated for the Best Picture Award. Also in 2008, A Simple Heart won the special jury prize at the Moscow International Film Festival and competed for the Golden George.
Web links
- A Simple Heart in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Übers. Elisabeth Edl : Three stories. Hanser, Munich 2017
- ↑ La passion Béatrice on allocine.fr
- ↑ A simple heart. In: synchronkartei.de. German dubbing file , accessed on March 2, 2017 .
- ↑ A simple heart. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ↑ See cinema.de