Unrestrained Manon
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Unrestrained Manon |
| Original title | Manon 70 |
| Country of production |
France Italy Germany |
| original language | French |
| Publishing year | 1968 |
| length | 101 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 18 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Jean Aurel |
| script |
Cécil Saint-Laurent Jean Aurel |
| production |
Robert Dorfmann Yvon Guézel Ludwig Waldleitner |
| music |
Serge Gainsbourg Michel Colombier |
| camera | Edmond Richard |
| cut | Anne-Marie Cotret |
| occupation | |
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Unrestrained Manon (original title: Manon 70 ) is a French-Italian-German fictional film by the director Jean Aurel from 1968 based on a screenplay by Cécil Saint-Laurent in collaboration with the director. It is based on the story Manon Lescaut by Antoine-François Prévost, written in 1731 . As indicated in the original title, the plot in the film was moved to the (then) present. The film was first released in France on February 21, 1968, and in the Federal Republic of Germany on May 17 the same year.
action
Manon Lescaut is the prototype of the flirtatious, seductive woman who jumps from man to man for the sake of her eternally indebted brother, but also for the sake of her own addiction to money and prosperity, and thus morally ruins the man who really loves her. On the flight from Tokyo to Paris, she befriends the reporter François De Grieux, who falls for her completely. She seems to love him too; In any case, she keeps coming back to him later from her adventures with rich men who offer her clothes, pleasure trips on the Mediterranean or exclusive villas. Once she travels to Stockholm to snatch him from the arms of a rival. But none of this prevents her from being quasi-subservient to her brother Jean-Paul, who is constantly coupling her, a dissolute and unstable individual. In the end, Manon leaves one of her lovers after a scandal that breaks out because the lover, who believes he is the only one in her favor, discovers their relationship with François. How things will then go on is left open in the film.
criticism
"Spending out psychologically superficial and socially critical references, the emphatically fashionable-chic, technically not uncompromising staging is exhausted by showing various hugging scenes."
“Psychologically the film fails completely, dramatically it remains just below average and externally it adapts to the film fashion that is common today. If necessary for adults, but without any recommendation. "
literature
- Maurice Bessy, Raymond Chirat, André Bernard: Histoire du cinéma français. Encyclopédie des Films 1966–1970. (with photos for each film) Éditions Pygmalion, Paris 1992, ISBN 2-85704-379-1 , p. 186.
Web links
- Manon in the Internet Movie Database (English)