I loved her
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | I loved her |
| Original title | Je l'aimais |
| Country of production | France |
| original language | French |
| Publishing year | 2009 |
| length | 115 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 6 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Zabou Breitman |
| script | Zabou Breitman Agnes de Sacy |
| production |
Fabio Conversi Jean-Luc Van Damme Mathieu Bayart |
| music | Krishna Levy |
| camera | Michel Amathieu |
| cut |
Frédérique Broos Bernard Françoise |
| occupation | |
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I loved her is a French feature film from 2009. After Together You're Less Alone , it is the second film adaptation of a novel by the French writer Anna Gavalda .
action
After Chloé was abandoned by her husband, her father-in-law Pierre invited her and her two daughters to his country house in the mountains. At first, the mood between the abandoned daughter-in-law and the taciturn father-in-law is icy, but after a while Pierre opens up and tells Chloé a secret from his life that has been closely guarded for over twenty years. Many years ago, the married manager fell in love with the interpreter Mathilde on a business trip . Pierre, who no longer expected to meet the love of his life, believes he can only be really happy with her, and plans to separate from his wife Suzanne and from now on live with Mathilde. However, after he learns that his secretary has been abandoned by her husband after more than 30 years of marriage and experiences how much she suffers as a result, he decides to stay with his wife so as not to destroy her life. Mathilde, who also loves Pierre more than anything, sets up strict rules for her further affair after she finds out. From then on, the two only met for a few hours or days on Pierre's business trips. After a few years, however, Mathilde no longer seems to be happy with the arrangement she chose and meets with Pierre in a café in Paris. She reveals to him that she is pregnant. However, the question of who the father is hits her so hard that she immediately terminates all contact with him. Only years later does he meet her again with her young son by the hand. She vehemently denies that it is Pierre's son, and it remains unclear until the end whether he is the father. Mathilde doesn't want to know anything more about him and leaves him standing. Pierre explains to Chloé that instead of choosing the love of his life, he has chosen to live in an emotionally dead marriage. To this day he regrets every day that he made the decision that he and his wife Suzanne are dead inside today. After he has finished his story, Pierre falls asleep in his armchair. Chloé then goes outside and watches the sun rise behind the mountains.
reception
Cinema.de writes that the director managed to translate the French author's brittle prose into melancholy images, which sadly showed us that you can be very alone together.
Web links
- I loved her in the Internet Movie Database (English)