A French woman
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | A French woman |
| Country of production |
Germany France Great Britain |
| original language | French |
| Publishing year | 1995 |
| length | 97 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Regis Wargnier |
| script |
Alain Le Henry Régis Wargnier |
| production | Yves Marmion |
| music | Patrick Doyle |
| camera | François Catonné |
| cut |
Agnès Schwab Geneviève Winding |
| occupation | |
| |
A French Woman is a love drama by Régis Wargnier from 1995. It was made in a German-French-British co-production. The film was shown in France under the title Une femme française and in Great Britain as A French Woman .
action
By chance, officer Louis meets the bride's sister, Jeanne, at his brother's wedding. The wedding has to be postponed and will soon take place as a double wedding, at which Louis and Jeanne will also get married. Shortly afterwards, the Second World War breaks out and Louis is drafted. He becomes a prisoner of war . His comrade Henri was released and returned to Nancy in 1944 , where he went to see Jeanne. During the imprisonment he fell in love with her through letters and photos that Jeanne sent to Louis. A one-night stand soon becomes more and when Louis returns home after five years, Jeanne lives with Henri. He wants to release her, but Jeanne asks him to be allowed to stay with him, since the other men have only been her consolation in times of great loneliness.
Jeanne becomes pregnant and has twins two months before the actual appointment. Even when Louis has doubts about fatherhood, Jeanne tries to convince him that the children are his. After the end of the Second World War, Louis and Jeanne move to Berlin with their children , where Louis is stationed as an officer in the Forces Françaises à Berlin . Jeanne has her third child, a boy. You live in a house whose previous German owner still lives in the lower rooms of the villa. His son Mathias visits him regularly and falls in love with Jeanne. She rejects him and moves to Nancy shortly afterwards when Louis is sent to French Indochina for an indefinite period . One day Mathias stands at Jeanne's door and they both start a passionate affair. She wants to flee with him and the children, but prevents her family from doing so: Her sister takes away the children from her and Jeanne refrains from going alone with Mathias.
In 1950, Louis returns from the war and is picked up at the airport by Jeanne. At the request of his wife, he does not agree to the next war assignment, but goes with her and the children as a military attaché to Damascus . During a sightseeing tour, Jeanne tells him that she will leave him. She has chosen Mathias, who appears shortly after to take her with him. Louis is on the verge of collapse, but shortly afterwards pounces on Mathias and knocks him down. As a result, he dealt him numerous blows. Jeanne, who fears that Louis will kill Mathias, hits Louis on the back with a rock until he collapses. While Mathias only has superficial wounds, Louis has to be admitted to the hospital. Jeanne's blows were so severe that they almost damaged the spine and could have led to paralysis. Jeanne is sent back to France. After a while, Louis also returns to France. He separates from Jeanne and goes back to Damascus alone.
A few years later the family is reunited in Saint-Lunaire in Brittany . Louis is on leave from the front and will soon leave Jeanne alone again for an indefinite period of time. The narrator reports that Jeanne continued to have numerous lovers, just as Louis was involved in numerous wars. One day Jeanne had a breakdown, had more and more attacks of suffocation and died a month later. Louis received the bag she last had with her and found a newspaper clipping in it announcing Mathias' death. He believed that Jeanne had died of a broken heart. The narrator concludes that all this was long over, Jeanne has been dead for 20 years.
production
A French woman was filmed from June 6th to September 24th 1994 at Sanssouci Palace in Potsdam as well as in Leipzig , Paris , Nancy, Brittany and Syria. The production cost was around $ 15 million.
The film premiered on April 23, 1995 in Paris and was shown in German cinemas on August 24, 1995. Around 860,000 cinema-goers saw the film in France. The film was released on video on June 3, 1996 and was released on DVD in 2007. The television premiere was on July 22, 1996 on the transmitter.
Daniel Auteuil and Emmanuelle Béart, who were also a couple in private, separated during the filming.
synchronization
| role | actor | Voice actor |
|---|---|---|
| Louis | Daniel Auteuil | Gudo Hoegel |
| Jeanne | Emmanuelle Béart | Susanne von Medvey |
| Arnoult | Jean-Claude Brialy | Klaus Jepsen |
criticism
The film service criticized A French Woman for saying that "the protagonists' motivation is not conveyed convincingly". The film is "a half-hearted attempt at the problems of loneliness and loyalty, the intensity achieved at best through the precise acting." "Pure passion, pain and languor", Cinema summarized the film, while Prisma called the story trivial and the main characters described as implausible. kino-zeit.de found that director Régis Wargnier had demonstrated “his enormous talent for opulent melodramatic picture arches against a historical background” with the film; A French woman is a film that you can't get enough of.
Awards
The film won three Silver St. George's at the Moscow International Film Festival : in the categories of Best Director (Régis Wargnier), Best Actor (Gabriel Barylli) and Best Actress (Emmanuelle Béart).
Web links
- A French woman at the Internet Movie Database (English)
- A French woman at filmportal.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ A French woman at filmportal.de
- ↑ See variety.com
- ↑ See allocine.com
- ↑ See timeout.com
- ↑ A French woman. In: synchronkartei.de. German dubbing file , accessed on March 2, 2017 .
- ↑ A French woman. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ↑ See cinema.de
- ↑ See prisma.de
- ↑ See kino-zeit.de