Family reunion with obstacles
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Family reunion with obstacles |
| Original title | Le Skylab |
| Country of production | France |
| original language | French |
| Publishing year | 2011 |
| length | 113 minutes |
| Age rating |
FSK 12 JMK 10 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Julie Delpy |
| script | Julie Delpy |
| production | Michael Gentile |
| music | Matthieu Sibony |
| camera | Lubomir Bakchev |
| cut | Isabelle Devinck |
| occupation | |
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Family reunion with obstacles (Original title: Le Skylab) is a French feature film from 2011 .
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Albertine, in her early 40s, travels with her husband Jonathan, who comes from England, and their three children on the Eurostar from London to Paris. She remembers the summer of 1979, when the then eleven-year-old took the train from Paris to Brittany with her parents Jean and Anna and their mother Mémé to celebrate the 67th birthday of Jean's mother Amandine.
Amandine's six children, the children-in-law and the large group of grandchildren appeared for the celebration on July 11, 1979 at the rural property near the beach. The adults' conversations are about their more or less happy marriages and their professions, and traumatizations from the Indochina and Algerian wars are also topics. Jean and Anna, former 68ers and now Mitterrand supporters, get into a political argument several times with Jeans' conservative brothers Roger and Fredo.
On the other hand, there is the adventure world of children and young people: bickering, cartoons on TV, an overnight stay in a tent with horror stories and initial curiosity about sexuality. When Albertine accidentally ends up on the nudist beach with her father, she sees the good-looking teenager Matthieu coming out of the sea naked and experiences her first adolescent crush, which ended in the evening when they cuddled Matthieu with his girlfriend at a youth party sees.
Rumor has it that the announced Skylab space station crash could take place overnight over Brittany, and Albertine imagines the death of the entire extended family. The next day, however, it is learned that the wreckage of Skylab has fallen over Australia. Everyone is going home again.
Reviews
The French newspaper Le Monde ruled:
«Le registre est celui du souvenir, qui donne au film une tonalité sucrée, nostalgique, un peu trop consensuelle, mais n'empêche pas la cinéaste de présenter ces années 1970 finissantes sous un jour inédit jusqu'à présent dans une comédie. La manière qu'elle a, notamment, de jouer avec les fractures de la société française de l'époque et les tabous qui leur sont généralement associés est des plus réjouissantes. »
“It's the tone of memory that gives the film a sweetish tone, nostalgic, a little too harmless, but it doesn't prevent the filmmaker from portraying the late 1970s in a completely new light in a comedy. In particular, her way of playing with the ruptures in contemporary French society and the taboos in general is extremely amusing. "
The British Guardian saw in the film the change in the traditional French way of life, which was still intact in the 1970s, under the constraints of modern work ethics:
“Delpy's film suggests that France has lost big-hearted family values, and neglected the importance of going on holiday and doing nothing. Significantly, the movie unfolds in flashback from an ill-tempered modern-day trip on Eurostar, a connection with those Anglo-Saxon concepts of joyless hard work and staying late in the office that former president Sarkozy hoped to introduce. "
“Delpy's film suggests that in France warm family values have been lost and the importance of taking a vacation and just doing nothing is neglected. Significantly, the film reveals in a flashback, based on a morose trip on the Eurostar today, a connection with these Anglo-Saxon concepts of joyless hard work and staying in the office that former President Sarkozy would have loved to have introduced. "
In the Frankfurter Allgemeine , family reunions with obstacles were praised as a successful example of typical French cinema:
“Julie Delpy proves her cinematic flair with 'Family Reunion with Obstacles'. [...] The strength of French cinema lies in the fact that it can keep things in suspension that would have come crashing down in a German film, and that it doesn't need a wildly waving handheld camera, just the charm and virtuosity of its actors. "
Deutschlandradio Kultur and the Lexicon of International Film pointed to the autobiographical references of the plot to the author's youth:
"It is this longing glimpse into one's own past, without any cynicism or false nostalgia, that makes 'family reunions with obstacles' a clever and entertaining comedy."
“Told with verve, the film composes a sensitive mood picture of the 1970s and condenses the small family events into entertaining mini-dramas, to which the comedically accurate actors also contribute. An autobiographical declaration of love to the extended family. "
Web links
- Family reunion with obstacles in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Family reunion with obstacles at Rotten Tomatoes (English)
- Family reunion with obstacles in the online film database
Individual evidence
- ↑ Release certificate for family reunions with obstacles . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , November 2012 (PDF; test number: 133 484 V).
- ↑ Age rating for family reunions with obstacles . Youth Media Commission .
- ↑ Isabelle Regnier: "Le Skylab": sous le Skylab exactement , in: Le Monde of October 4, 2011, accessed September 4, 2015.
- ↑ Peter Bradshaw: Skylab - review , in: The Guardian, October 24, 2013, accessed September 4, 2015.
- ^ Andreas Kilb: Memories of Albertine , in: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung of August 9, 2012, accessed September 4, 2015.
- ↑ Patrick Wellinski: “Family reunion with obstacles” - a turbulent summer comedy by and with Julie Delpy , on: Deutschlandradio Kultur, contribution from August 8, 2012, accessed September 4, 2015.
- ^ Family reunion with obstacles in the Lexicon of International Films , accessed September 4, 2015.