A childhood sweetheart
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | A childhood sweetheart |
| Original title | Un amour de jeunesse |
| Country of production |
France Germany |
| original language | French |
| Publishing year | 2011 |
| length | 110 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 0 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Mia Hansen-Løve |
| script | Mia Hansen-Løve |
| production |
Philippe Martin David Thion |
| camera | Stéphane Fontaine |
| cut | Marion Monnier |
| occupation | |
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Eine Jugendliebe (French title Un amour de jeunesse ) is a Franco-German feature film from 2011 .
action
Paris 1999: Camille (15) and Sullivan (19) are lovers. While Camille would love to spend every minute with Sullivan and tell him that he cannot live without him, her extreme attachment troubles him and he wishes for more personal freedom. When Sullivan goes to South America for ten months, Camille falls into deep despair. His letters, which were romantic at first, became scarcer and scarcer, until he finally wrote that he wanted to disappear from Camille's life. She attempts suicide with tablets, but is rescued.
2003: Camille starts studying architecture. She carefully approaches her professor Lorenz, who is about 20 years her senior, and begins a relationship with him - the first after Sullivan. Lorenz comes from Norway and is living in divorce, his German ex-wife lives with their son in Berlin.
Four years later, Camille works in Lorenz's architecture office, lives with him and is pregnant. On the bus she meets Sullivan's mother and gives her her cell phone number - he should get in touch. The first meeting in eight years takes place in a bistro. Sullivan now lives in Marseille, but spends more time in Paris and is currently single. Camille suffers a miscarriage and is comforted by Lorenz. After two more dates with Sullivan, she tells him to his face that she still loves him and will never stop loving him. From now on, pleasurable secret meetings take place in a hotel, a building shell and once - while Lorenz is on a business trip abroad - even in the apartment. In order to be able to accept Sullivan's invitation to Marseille, Camille lied to Lorenz that he was going to Normandy for a weekend with friends. Since the train to Marseille is canceled due to a strike, she has to hide in a hotel for two days. A little later, Sullivan informed Camille in a letter that he had ended the affair. Camille bursts into tears - for the second time she has been abandoned by her great childhood sweetheart. She continues her life with Lorenz.
background
The shooting took place within twelve weeks from September to mid-December 2010 in Paris , on the Ardèche , in Copenhagen and Kastrup , at the Bauhaus Dessau and in the Aincourt sanatorium . The film was produced by the companies Les Film Pelléas (France) and Razor Film (Germany), supporting institutions included arte , Westdeutsche Rundfunk , Canal + , Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg and the Center national du cinéma et de l'image animée .
After the preview on July 4, 2011 at the Paris Cinéma Festival, the film started in French cinemas on July 6, 2011. In Germany, production under the title Un amour de jeunesse started in the original sound with German subtitles on September 27, 2012. The television premiere of the German dubbed version under the title Eine Jugendliebe took place on November 25, 2014 on arte.
Un amour de jeunesse was shown in competition at the Locarno International Film Festival 2011 and received a special mention ( mention spéciale ) by the jury.
criticism
The French daily Le Monde particularly praised the director:
"Mia Hansen-Love s'impose comme l'un des plus lumineux talents du jeune cinéma français. Ils ne sont pas si nombreux, et encore plus rares, ceux qui se sont révélés ainsi d'emblée. Le premier long métrage de Mia Hansen-Love offrait déjà cet impressionnant mélange de maturité, d'élégance narrative, de vérité dans l'expression des sentiments qui n'a cessé depuis lors de nous séduire. La preuve par l'exemple avec cet Amour de jeunesse, qui porte bien son nom. Le titre ressemble au film: il est clair, direct, ne trompe pas sur la marchandise. »
“Mia Hansen-Løve has established herself as one of the brightest talents in young French cinema. They are not so numerous, and there are even fewer that are immediately valued. Even the first feature-length film by Hansen-Løve offered this impressive mixture of maturity, narrative elegance, honesty in the expression of feelings, which has continued to fascinate us ever since. For example with this 'childhood love', which is rightly called that. The title fits the film: It is clear, direct, does not fake false facts. "
- ↑ What is meant is the film Tout est pardonné (2007).
The British Guardian critic saw parallels with Eric Rohmer's style :
"What emerges on screen has something of Eric Rohmer in its feeling for the languor and nameless anxiety of the very young [...]"
"What happens on the screen has something of Éric Rohmer about the longing and the nameless fear of very young people [...]"
The Süddeutsche Zeitung noted that the film by German critics. "Unfortunately quite unnoticed ran with us in the cinema" Among the few German newspapers extensively with Goodbye First Love involved, include the Hamburger Abendblatt :
“Mia Hansen-Løve, who first attracted attention two years ago with her drama ' The Father of My Children ', shot a wonderfully tender love story that is largely shaped by the face of the leading actress Lola Créton. [...] Anyone who likes the French cinema of deep looks and meaningful words, who wants to see strong, fresh actors who sometimes despair of the sweet bird youth and then find their own way, will not get to 'Un Amour de Jeunesse' past. Rating: recommendable. "
On the other hand, the reviewer of the Wiener Zeitung , who described the film as "number one annoyance" at the Locarno Film Festival 2011 and continued to describe it, did not see any positive aspect :
“Broken hearts, lost fetuses and lots of Paris: Mia Hanson-Love is hosting an adolescent teenage party here with a large number of guests - and most of them have at some point suffocated in the viscous cliché pot. A film like a spoonful of honey: way too sticky, way too sweet. "
Web links
- Goodbye First Love in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Release certificate for a youthful love . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , August 2012 (PDF; test number: 134 475 K).
- ↑ Fabien Lemercier: Mia Hansen-Love tourne Un amour de jeunesse , on cineuropa.org, accessed January 2, 2015.
- ^ Filming Locations , in the Internet Movie Database, accessed January 2, 2015.
- ^ A childhood love in the Lexicon of International Films , accessed January 2, 2015.
- ↑ Release Info , in the Internet Movie Database, accessed January 2, 2015.
- ↑ Free TV premieres: Eine Jugendliebe , on Kabel Deutschland customer portal, accessed January 2, 2015.
- ↑ 64e Festival de Locarno: Le Palmarès , on the website of Radio Télévision Suisse , accessed on January 2, 2015.
- ↑ Jacques Mandelbaum: "Un amour de jeunesse": l'amour, expérience universelle et secrète , in: Le Monde of July 5, 2011, accessed January 2, 2015.
- ↑ Peter Bradshaw: Goodbye First Love - review , in: The Guardian, May 3, 2012, accessed January 2, 2015.
- ↑ David Steinitz: Mädchen im Kino - Neue Heldinnen , in: Süddeutsche Zeitung of December 8, 2013, accessed January 2, 2015.
- ↑ "Un Amour de Jeunesse": Stab ins Herz , in: Hamburger Abendblatt of October 4, 2012, accessed January 2, 2015.
- ↑ Matthias Greuling: Aliens, sunburn and lost fetuses , in: Wiener Zeitung from August 5, 2011, accessed January 2, 2015.