A swallow makes the summer
| Movie | |
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| German title | A swallow makes the summer |
| Original title | Une hirondelle a fait le printemps |
| Country of production | France |
| original language | French |
| Publishing year | 2001 |
| length | 103 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 6 |
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| Director | Christian Carion |
| script | Christian Carion Eric Assous |
| production | Christophe Rossignon |
| music | Philippe Rombi |
| camera | Antoine Héberlé |
| cut | Andrea Sedláčková |
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A swallow makes the summer is a French comedy film directed by Christian Carion . The film opened in France on September 5, 2001, where it was seen by approximately 2.5 million viewers. It premiered in German cinemas on August 1st of the following year.
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The successful Sandrine is 30 years old and an internet specialist. She is bored of her job and has grown apart with her boyfriend. To escape this, she begins a two-year training at an agricultural school. During this time, she did internships on various farms. She buys the lonely farm of the lonely Adrien for 450,000 francs . She has the part of the courtyard that she can decide on rebuilt. She offers school classes to get to know life on a farm, rents rooms as Gîtes de France and even sells her goat cheese over the Internet in Germany. All of this is anathema to Adrien. He has the right to live on his former property for 18 months before he can move to Grenoble to live with his nephew. He uses the unfamiliar free time to watch Sandrine suspiciously and to hinder her work whenever possible. On the other hand, she only wants to make friends with him. Slowly she notices how he helps her with the hard work. Soon he gained confidence in her, from which a deep friendship developed.
Reviews
The lexicon of international films calls the film an “atmospheric, emphatically naturalistically filmed story of the rapprochement between two generations and their outlook on life”, which says a lot about modern life in town and country beyond the usual clichés. Furthermore, it is a "moving debut film with brilliant actors".
Michael Ranze praised the film in the Hamburger Abendblatt of August 1, 2002 as "an amusing and realistic story told" and a "straightforward tragic comedy" that also always casts a "realistic look" at the work of the farmers. This is mainly due to the “great actor duo” (Michel Serrault and Mathilde Seigner) and the “wonderful shots from the French pre-Alps”.
Matthias Grimm found in the film magazine Schnitt that Christian Carion counteracts the “romantic theme of escapism” with a “realistic stoicism” that does not explain salvation as a “fateful, metaphysical condition” but propagates “taking a natural place” through asceticism . Fully committed to this statement, the camera work deliberately takes a back seat in order to show off its strengths in nuances. These are looks that “take moments too long” or the sound editing that “knows how to subtly contrast ways of life and states of mind”.
Awards
At the César Awards, the film was nominated in the categories of Best Debut and Best Supporting Actor.
Web links
- The Girl from Paris in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- A swallow makes the summer in the online film database
- A swallow makes the summer at Metacritic (English)
- The Girl from Paris with Rotten Tomatoes (English)