Genealogies of a crime
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| German title | Genealogies of a crime |
| Original title | Généalogies d'un crime |
| Country of production | France , Portugal |
| original language | French |
| Publishing year | 1997 |
| length | 114 minutes |
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| Director | Raul Ruiz |
| script | Raúl Ruiz, Pascal Bonitzer |
| production | Paulo Branco |
| music | Jorge Arriagada |
| camera | Stefan Ivanov |
| cut | Valeria Sarmiento |
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Genealogies of a crime (Original title: Généalogies d'un crime ) is a French - Portuguese crime film directed by Raúl Ruiz with Catherine Deneuve and Michel Piccoli from 1997.
action
The defense attorney Solange is in jail and awaits her trial. She tells her story to her lawyer:
One evening Solange receives a call and learns of her son's death. As a criminal defense attorney, she is known for taking on difficult cases, even if she mostly loses the trials. At her son's funeral, she is persuaded to take on the case of a young man named René, who is accused of the murder of his aunt Jeanne. Jeanne was a wealthy psychoanalyst and was a member of the Franco-Belgian Society for Analytical Psychology . She had raised René and had been convinced from childhood that René would become a criminal. For many years she studied her nephews and wrote down her observations. Solange is now studying Jeanne's notes and begins to identify with the dead woman. She concludes that Jeanne was actually to blame for her death. She instigated her nephew to act in order to confirm her theory that criminal tendencies can already emerge in childhood.
René himself is not very interested in the negotiations in court and instead starts psychological games with Solange, in which he recognizes his aunt. He is supported by a number of eccentric psychoanalysts, led by Georges Didier, who, as the head of the Franco-Belgian Society for Analytical Psychology, appears crazier than the people he treats. Because he also has a bad memory, he always carries a notebook with his name and photos. Opposite him is the psychoanalyst Christian, who is convinced that every person is destined to tell anew a story that has already passed, and that this process repeats itself endlessly with the archetypes . Criminal energy therefore does not come from the essence of a single person, but from the situation that fate assigned to the respective person.
As the plot progresses, Solange feels increasingly drawn to René and begins to see him as her son. The more the protagonists take refuge in a world of thought, the less likely it becomes that René murdered his aunt of his own free will. Solange turns out to be Jeanne's alter ego , who takes revenge on René as a ghost and stabs him and his friends with a kitchen knife.
background
Catherine Deneuve, whose costumes were designed by Elisabeth Tavernier , is seen in a dual role as a lawyer and murder victim. The film was inspired by a true case: the Viennese psychoanalyst Hermine van Hug was murdered by her nephew in the 1920s.
Genealogies of a Crime premiered in France on March 26, 1997 . At the 1997 Berlinale , the film took part in the competition for the Golden Bear , but it was only released in German cinemas in August 1998.
Reviews
According to the lexicon of the international film , the result “suffers from an excess of words with which the dramaturgy, which is characterized by flashbacks and time leaps, is to be made transparent”. Cinema found that Ruiz had staged the film "as a satirical-surreal confusion". As such, it reminds "as much of Hitchcock's Vertigo as of Buñuel's Belle de jour ". In summary, the film is a "crazy trip through the psycho-panopticon". Also Prisma concluded that the director offers viewers "a grotesque game of deception" that the "myths and legends of his native continent South America" is based, but also of "psychoanalysis and examples from the history of film such as François Truffaut and Alfred Hitchcock " be inspired.
Awards
- 1997: Nomination for the Golden Bear at the Berlin International Film Festival
German version
| role | actor | Voice actor |
|---|---|---|
| Jeanne / Solange | Catherine Deneuve | Rita Engelmann |
| Georges Didier | Michel Piccoli | Otto Mellies |
Web links
- Genealogies of a crime in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Genealogies of a crime at rotten tomatoes (English)
- Pictures of the film on cinema.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ cf. filmsdefrance.com
- ^ Genealogies of a crime. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ↑ cf. cinema.de
- ↑ cf. prisma.de
- ^ Genealogies of a crime. In: synchronkartei.de. German dubbing file , accessed on August 3, 2018 .