Heartbreaker (film)

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Movie
German title Heartbreaker
Original title Les amours imaginaires
Country of production Canada
original language French
English
Publishing year 2010
length 101 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director Xavier Dolan
script Xavier Dolan
production Xavier Dolan
Daniel Morin
Carole Mondello
camera Stéphanie Anne Weber Biron
cut Xavier Dolan
occupation

Heartbreaker is a Canadian comedy film of Xavier Dolan from the year 2010 with Monia Chokri , Niels Schneider and Xavier Dolan himself in the lead roles.

Marie and Francis jeopardize their friendship in their competing quest for the love of a handsome young man, who ultimately rejects them both.

action

Marie and Francis, both in their early twenties, are good friends. At the party of a friend they get to know the young Nicolas, whom Marie spontaneously describes as being in love with himself. They are both entranced by the curly-haired blond man who comes from the country, although they refuse to admit it. A few days later, Marie Francis calls and tells him that Nicolas has invited her. Francis was invited too, and so they are a little upset because they both thought that Nicolas would prefer them. They dress up for the day and try to please him, but he only invites them both to play hide and seek in the forest. Here Francis discovers a white rabbit and tries to catch it. Nicolas surprises him and suddenly lies over him. However, there is no kiss. Later Nicolas and Marie spend the night at Francis' house, with Nicolas lying in the middle.

Nicolas invites Marie to a theater performance. Francis pretends to have no time that day anyway, but later gives Nicolas a poster, which he gratefully accepts. Nicolas later invites them to a party, and Marie and Francis try to outdo each other with their presents for Nicolas. She buys him a hat while he brings him a very expensive sweater. Both try to denigrate each other's gift, and the two of them also quarrel during the celebration. The next day, Nicolas wears both pieces of clothing and suggests that the three of them go to the country and go to his aunt's chalet . Here Marie and Francis vie for Nicolas again, who hardly seems to notice. When Francis lets Nicolas feed him by the campfire in the evening, despite his nausea, Marie demonstratively goes to sleep. The next day she wakes up in the empty house and sees the two men fooling around outside together. She tells them she has important work to do in Montréal and walks away. Francis runs after her, but she just slaps him wordlessly. A tussle ensues, which Nicolas laconically interrupts: he has had enough of the country and wants to go back to the city.

Autumn is passing and the first snow is falling. Marie and Francis have not heard from Nicolas since the trip and try to reach him by phone, but in vain. Marie writes him a poem with a declaration of love, and Francis visits him personally and confesses his love for him. But Nicolas asks Francis how he found out that he was gay. Francis withdraws injured. Marie meets Nicolas, far from his apartment, and speaks to him about her poem. However, he wants to run away quickly with the excuse that he has something on the stove. Marie skilfully covers up her disappointment. She later saw Francis for the first time in a long time. Both make sure that the other had nothing to do with Nicolas either. Francis can report that he will be going to Asia for several months.

A year later, Nicolas is back in town and appears at a party to which Marie and Francis are also invited. The two gossip about him, and when Nicolas approaches them, they ignore him, so that he finally turns away. Shortly afterwards, Marie and Francis discover a man who looks like him, but who has dark curly hair. He sees the two of them, winks at them, and Marie and Francis go to him together.

production

Heartbreaker was the second feature film directed by Xavier Dolan after I Killed My Mother . He also wrote the script, co-produced the film, and did the editing, costumes and sets. Filming took place in Montréal, Portneuf and Sainte-Croix . The budget for the film was around $ 2 million; According to Dolan he only turned it to realize another film project. As in I killed my mother, Anne Dorval also took on the role of mother in Heartbreaker Anne Dorval, here Nicolas.

Heartbreaker premiered on May 16, 2010 at the Cannes International Film Festival as part of the Un certain regard series. The film opened in cinemas in Canada on June 11, 2010 and was shown for the first time in Germany on October 9, 2010 at the Hamburg Film Festival . The film opened in Switzerland on January 6, 2011 and was released in German cinemas on July 7, 2011. Heartbreaker was released on DVD on November 18, 2011 .

Reviews

For film-dienst , Heartbreaker was a “cheeky and carefree film that masters the rules and secrets of cinematic storytelling like a dream and offers refreshingly wild cinema”. Der Spiegel called the film "a very amusing triangular story illustrated in divine colors" and an "irresistible slow-motion orgy about the triumph of style over substance."

The Süddeutsche Zeitung praised the film for its "pointed dialogues, [...] visual capriccios and a [...] truthfulness that aims right at the heart of disappointed love" and drew parallels to Wong Kar-Wai (use of slow motion) and François Truffaut (modernized Jules and Jim layout of the main characters).

"Perhaps that is what defines Dolan's originality: this loving and at the same time irreverent way of appropriating the well-worn codes and references of film history and creating something completely unique from them," wrote Critic.de, also with regard to possible originals from Dolan.

Awards

At the 2010 Cannes International Film Festival, the film won the Prix Regards Jeunes. Xavier Dolan was nominated for a Gold Hugo at the 2010 Chicago International Film Festival . In 2011, the film received a César nomination for Best Foreign Film and four Genie Award nominations. Heartbreaker won a Jutra Award in 2011 in the category Film s'étant le plus illustré à l'extérieur du Québec and was nominated for a Jutra in four other categories.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Certificate of Release for Heartbreakers . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , May 2011 (PDF; test number: 127 725 K).
  2. ↑ a b Daniel Sander: Icarus flies . In: Der Spiegel , No. 7, 2011, June 27, 2011.
  3. ↑ Heartbreaker. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  4. ↑ Daniel Sander: Love film "Heartbreaker": Hip, but warm . spiegel.de, July 7, 2011.
  5. ↑ Rainer Gansera: Jealousy hurts the most . sueddeutsche.de, July 7, 2011.
  6. ↑ http://www.critic.de/film/les-amours-imaginaires-2540/