Today I'm wearing a skirt!
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Today I'm wearing a skirt! |
| Original title | La journée de la jupe |
| Country of production | France , Belgium |
| original language | French |
| Publishing year | 2008 |
| length | 87 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Jean-Paul Lilienfeld |
| script | Jean-Paul Lilienfeld |
| production |
Ariel Askénazi Bénédicte Lesage |
| music | Kohann |
| camera | Pascal Rabaud |
| cut | Aurique Delannoy |
| occupation | |
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Today I'm wearing a skirt! (Original title: La journée de la jupe ) is a French - Belgian drama film directed by Jean-Paul Lilienfeld from 2008 .
action
Sonia Bergerac is a literary teacher at the Collège Maxim Gorki in Paris (in a socially deprived area). She teaches young people from migrant families , but the students have no respect for her. Once again, the lesson in which Sonia wants to do a play by Molière is a test of patience. Obscenities and insults are the order of the day, Sonia is put down because of her clothes - she continues to wear a skirt to school every day despite arguments with the headmaster . Students who participate are humiliated by classmates, while others even refuse to take off their hats for allegedly religious reasons. The Colored Mouss, on the other hand, argues with his classmate Sébastien away from class. It's about a backpack, and Sonia, who separates the two boys, takes the backpack, exasperated. Mouss reacts extremely aggressively and demands the backpack back. He announced that he would otherwise kill the teacher. In the scramble, a pistol falls out of the backpack, which Sonia grabs and points at Mouss. He approaches her, threatens her and wants to grab the gun from which a shot is released in the scramble. Mouss is hit in the leg. Most of the students can flee from the classroom in the following mess. Nine students stay behind and Sonia asks them to lie down on the floor. The students obey. Sonia locks the doors.
Outside the classroom the situation is confusing. An escaped student reports that one of the classmates had a gun. Nobody knows who is in possession of the weapon. The police brigade called assumes that a student has a teacher and classmate under his control. Brigadier chief Labouret wants to defuse the situation through negotiations, while his superior Bechet wants to storm the classroom. Sonia is seen by the teachers as unstable, tends to be anti-Arab, because she refrains from religious arguments when practicing her profession at a secular school, and by the headmaster as stubborn when it comes to her attitude towards her clothes. Only colleague Cécile protects Sonia: she received no support from the headmaster or her colleagues, although she suffered from the behavior of the students. Her husband also confirms this - Sonia had to take antidepressants regularly to get through the school day. He finally left her a short time ago because he could no longer cope with the situation.
In the meantime, Sonia forces the students to empty their pockets and then sit in their chairs in a civilized manner. Then she begins the lesson and can for the first time calmly explain the life story of Molière. Suddenly her cell phone rings and Labouret is on the line. He wants to know the current situation from her, and Sonia is initially unable to react. She eventually claims Mouss has the gun and refuses to speak to Labouret. She breaks the connection and continues the lesson, forcing some answers at gunpoint. In the following hours, the students receive lessons about treating the opposite sex with respect, respecting other religions and peoples, respecting the laws of France, but above all lessons about their situation as migrant children, who have it difficult enough even with a good education. Some students, especially the young Nawel, realize what Sonia wants from them. When Mouss pretends to pass out, Sonia rushes to his aid and he then grabs her and brutally beats her, Nawel takes the dropped weapon, threatens Mouss, who is tied up by the others, and subsequently reveals how much she likes it Hates men for what they have done to the women in their family. She later gives the gun back to Sonia. The police have now secretly occupied the corridor under the classroom stage and smuggled a mini camera into the hall. She now knows that Sonia is the perpetrator. Cécile, on the other hand, warns Sonia by telephone that access is imminent. She asks Sonia to give up. This, however, gathers all the students on the stage and tells Labouret that they will shoot the men under the stage. Labouret withdraws his men, Nawel discovers the camera and destroys it. While Sonia is still talking to Labouret, Nawel finds a self-made film on Mouss' cell phone. He shows how chubby Farida, who is also among the hostages, is raped by several men. Sonia is horrified. She calls Labouret again and now formulates her conditions: She wants a television crew she wants to give an interview to and demands the introduction of an annual Rock Day . Its purpose is to make it clear to the students that women who wear skirts are not sluts. Labouret agrees to organize a television team. Since the minister, who has since arrived, gave him only one hour to solve the case on a negotiation basis, he went half-naked to Sonia in the classroom in order to talk her over to the task. When she refuses, he claims that the mother of a high school student had a heart attack . Sonia lets Labouret and the boy go.
Sonia can get Farida to tell her the name of the rapist. She announces an MMS for Labouret that will also go to numerous television stations at the same time. It contains both the film with the scenes of the rape and Mouss' confession to have made the film. He also gave the names and addresses of the perpetrators, which Sonia is now reading out. The third condition is the arrest of the men, which Labouret immediately arranges. A little later Sonia receives her father's call. It becomes clear that the Sonia family cast out because of their revealing clothing and marriage. Sonia herself comes from an Arab family. Her father promises her to accept her clothes in the future, no matter what the neighbors say. In addition, he has just met her husband and wants to accept him at Sonia's side. He hopes to be able to make up with his daughter. Since she answers him in Arabic, the other students realize that Sonia also comes from a migrant family. However, she makes it clear that she is a teacher and that is what counts. Sonia has agreed to the police that she will give up after the interview with the journalists who will be arriving shortly. Shortly before the arrival, the student Mehmet snatches the weapon from her and refuses to be released with the others in the end. He fears the revenge of Mouss and the equally violent Sébastien, who beat him up the day before, and demands money to travel to Australia. Mouss and Sébastien challenge him to claim that he betrayed the rapists, as Mouss himself is afraid of the men's revenge. Should he take on the act, Sébastien will again protect his sister during his imprisonment. Mehmet sees red at the mention of his sister and shoots Sébastien. Sonia calls Labouret and confesses that she herself killed the student to protect Mehmet. Shortly afterwards, two police officers disguised as journalists appear, to whom Sonia actually has nothing more to say in view of the dramatic twist. When Mehmet is pulled away from Sonia and she takes up a gun, she is shot by the second policeman. Some students react indignantly. Sonia's parents and Sébastien's mother mourn the death of their family. A little later Sonia is buried. Almost all of the students Sonia had under her control attended the funeral. All girls wear a skirt.
production
Today I'm wearing a skirt! was shot in May 2008 during the Easter holidays. The location was the Federico-Garcia-Lorca College in Saint-Denis . The students who stood in front of the camera were lay people who had been given two months to study the texts before filming began. The film premiered on September 18th at the Festival de la Fiction TV de La Rochelle. On February 6th, 2009 it was shown at the Berlinale . Five days before the French theatrical release on March 25, 2009, the film was shown on arte on French and German television.
Based on the film, Nurkan Erpulat and Jens Hillje created the play Verrücktes Blut , in which the plot is moved to Berlin-Kreuzberg.
synchronization
The German editing was done by Taunus Film / Michael Graf. The dialogue script and direction are from Beate Klöckner .
| role | actor | Voice actor |
|---|---|---|
| Sonia Bergerac | Isabelle Adjani | Christin Marquitan |
| Labouret | Denis Podalydès | Gunnar Helm |
| Bechet | Yann Collette | Peter Reinhardt |
| Minister | Nathalie Besançon | Silke Matthias |
| Mehmet | Khalid Berkouz | Julien Haggége |
| Mouss | Yann Ebonge | Jan David Rönfeldt |
| Nawel | Sonia Amori | Kristina Tietz |
| Sébastien | Kévin Azaïs | Julius Jellinek |
| Jérôme | Salim Boughidene | Ismet Kalmac |
| Farida | Sarah Douali | Britta Steffenhagen |
| Akim | Hassan Mezhoud | Mahmout Mohammed |
| Farid | Karim Zakraoui | Jesco Wirthgen |
| Khadija | Mélèze Bouzid | Marie Schramm |
| Frédéric | Marc Citti | Olaf Reichmann |
criticism
The film-dienst found that the “authentic film achieved an almost documentary immediacy” and that it “derives its tension from the confrontation between the French school ideal and the reality of socially hot spots”. The mirror said Today I'm wearing a skirt! a "lurid but humorless movie". "Authentic, emotional and tragic," said TV Spielfilm .
Awards
In 2010 , Isabelle Adjani won a César in the Best Actress category for the fifth time . The film was also nominated for a César in the categories of Best Picture and Best Original Screenplay . Also in 2010, Adjani was honored with a Prix Lumières for Best Actress and won an Étoile d'Or for Best Actress.
Web links
- Today I'm wearing a skirt! in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Today I'm wearing a skirt! at Rotten Tomatoes (English)
- Page to the film on arte.tv
Individual evidence
- ↑ Jean-Paul Lilienfeld - Today I wear a skirt! ( Memento of the original from July 1, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Interview by Sylvie Bauvillier with Jean-Paul Lilienfeld, arte.tv, April 9, 2009.
- ↑ Isabelle Adjani - Today I wear a skirt! ( Memento of the original from June 29, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Interview by Jean-Pierre Lavoignat with Isabelle Adjani, arte.tv, March 19, 2009.
- ↑ a b Wolfgang Höbel: "Postmigrantisches Theater": The teacher shoots sharply . spiegel.de, December 4, 2012.
- ↑ Today I'm wearing a skirt! in the German dubbing index ; Name of the voice actors in the end credits of the film.
- ↑ Today I'm wearing a skirt! In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ↑ Cf. Today I wear a skirt! on tvspielfilm.de
