Elisa (film)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Elisa |
| Original title | Élisa |
| Country of production | France |
| original language | French |
| Publishing year | 1995 |
| length | 111 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Jean Becker |
| script | Jean Becker, Fabrice Carazo |
| production |
Christian Fechner , Henri Brichetti |
| music |
Zbigniew Preisner , Serge Gainsbourg , Michel Colombier |
| camera | Etienne Becker |
| cut | Jacques Witta |
| occupation | |
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Elisa is a French feature film by Jean Becker from 1995 that is about a young woman who has had a bad start in life and who nevertheless maintains an unbroken will and a sense of humanity.
action
Marie is looking for her father Jacques, a musician who she blames for the misfortune of her mother Élisa. She wants to revenge her mother on him, but in the end she discovers a partner in him.
Jacques couldn't cope with the fact that Élisa had cheated because she could no longer endure the oppressive life at the side of an artist and goes her own way. Élisa has thoughts of suicide, but doesn't want to leave her five-year-old daughter Marie alone. Her parents refuse to take her and the child in. In desperation, she tries to suffocate Marie. Believing that her daughter is dead, she shoots herself.
Marie survives and is put in an orphanage after staying with her unloved grandparents. Her criminal career begins there, together with her friend Solange and the Moroccan boy Ahmed, who replace her family. The three organize thefts and defraud old men who pay money to abuse girls. Marie, now 17, is a woman with character, although misguided. She humiliates a suitor, lets him - under threat of scandal - take off his pants and throws his clothes out of the window before she disappears. She once shoots a pistol that she recently got into the windshield of a car where she is sitting with two drunk men who are trying to rape her. She throws the men out and wrecks the car. However, Marie also shows touching sides when she gives 15-year-old Ahmed a sexual climax.
Marie finds her father in a remote place, wants to seduce him in order to humiliate him, even threatens him with a pistol, and finally discovers in him her own kind: vulnerable and injured, but not destroyed.
background
The cameraman Étienne Becker , the director Jean Becker and the dramaturge Sophie Becker (Thévenet-Becker) are siblings. Her father is the director Jacques Becker .
Reviews
The Süddeutsche Zeitung said that Vanessa Paradis was "the only legitimate heiress of Brigitte Bardot, because in the same way she manages to let her innocence work behind the spoiled girl's face". The Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung attested the film “a story told in a clever way around three corners and great actors”.
The lexicon of international films described Elisa as a “sensitively staged portrait of a lost youth, carried by humor and a loving view of the people”. Thanks to excellent camera work and actors who play “impressively” you can see “great European emotional cinema for laughing, crying and thinking”.
Awards
At the 1996 César Awards , Zbigniew Preisner, Serge Gainsbourg and Michel Colombier received awards in the Best Film Music category. Clotilde Courau was also nominated for the award in the categories of Best Supporting Actress and Best Young Actress.
The German Film and Media Assessment FBW in Wiesbaden awarded the film the rating particularly valuable.
synchronization
A first German dubbed version was produced by Film- & Fernseh-Synchron , Munich. The dialogue book was written by Beate Klöckner , and the dialogue was directed by Clemens Frohmann .
| role | actor | Voice actor |
|---|---|---|
| Marie Desmoulins | Vanessa Paradis | Julia Haacke |
| Jacques “Lebovitch” Desmoulins | Gérard Depardieu | Manfred Lehmann |
| Samuel | Michel bouquet | Horst Sachtleben |
| Kevin | Olivier Saladin | Peter Fricke |
Web links
- Elisa in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Süddeutsche Zeitung , June 26, 1995.
- ^ Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , July 5, 1995.
- ↑ Elisha. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed August 5, 2018 .
- ↑ Elisha. In: synchronkartei.de. German synchronous index , accessed on August 5, 2018 .