I love you!
| Television series | |
|---|---|
| German title | I love you! |
| Original title | J'ai deux amours |
| Country of production | France |
| original language | French |
| year | 2018 |
| Production company |
Italique Productions, ARTE |
| length | 50 minutes |
| Episodes | 3 in 1 season |
| genre | Romantic comedy |
| idea | Clement Michel |
| production | Hélène Delale |
| music | Alexandre Lier, Sylvain Ohrel, Nicolas Weil |
| Initial release | March 22, 2018 on Arte |
First publication in German |
March 22, 2018 on Arte |
| occupation | |
I love you! (Originally J'ai deux amours ) is a French mini-series from 2018. The three episodes were all broadcast on Arte for the first time on March 22nd . The idea for the series came from Clément Michel , who also directed the episodes, and Olivier Joyard and Jérôme Larcher wrote the scripts . It is about the doctor Hector, who wants to have a child with his partner Jérémie, which their lesbian roommate Anna should bear. When Hector meets his childhood sweetheart Louise at work, he gets into a conflict because he falls in love with her again and starts an affair with her, but does not want to lose Jérémie either.
action
Hector, who works as a doctor in an emergency room , has been with the butcher Jérémie for five years . The two have a lesbian roommate, the translator in Anna. The three go together in a fertilization clinic to Brussels because Anna a child for her two friends unsubscribe to. Before that, Hector works with his childhood sweetheart Louise, whom he has not seen for twenty years.
A week later, Hector meets with Louise in her bar, where the two of them have sex. After meeting again, he comes home and learns from Jérémie and Anna that the fertilization was not successful. After lunch at which Hector admits to Louise and her friends that he has slept with men in the past, Louise doesn't want to hear from him, but continues to meet with him a little later.
On Hector's birthday he wants to celebrate together with Jérémie and Anna in a restaurant, but Louise is also there, which is why he locks himself in the ladies' room and tells Jérémie by SMS that he has to work longer and cannot come, after which he goes undetected. A few days later, Louise reveals to him that she is pregnant.
Soon afterwards, Hector meets Louise's young son Benjamin, who actually lives with his father in Québec but will live with his mother during his studies at the University of Strasbourg . After initial difficulties, Hector finds a rapport with him. Louise is taken to the hospital by Hector with a bleeding, but it is just harmless spotting . Jérémie and Louise's paths almost cross in the clinic, but Hector and his colleagues Françoise and Malik prevent this from happening.
His double life is increasingly burdening Hector, as he does not want to do without Jérémie or Louise and has to constantly commute between them. Meanwhile, Anna, who is now pregnant, finds a new friend named Marie on a dating site . Jérémie injures himself with a cleaver while working and is taken to Hector. There he apologizes for being unfaithful, because Anna did not just fertilize himself with his sperm as previously claimed, but slept with him drunk. This moves Hector to introduce Jérémie and Louise to each other.
With Hector's explanation, Louise goes into labor , which is why Hector, Jérémie and Anna take her to the hospital. The road is blocked on the way, which is why Louise, with the help of Jérémie and a pharmacist, has to give birth to the child. After the birth, Hector is left by both Louise and Jérémie. Three months later, Louise had difficulties as the single mother of her son Serge, which is why she was allowed to stay with Jérémie, Anna and their daughter Odette for a few days. Hector, who no longer works, lives with Françoise, who has sex with Malik, whom she has raved about all the time, but which is unsatisfactory for her. After meeting Hector, Benjamin steals Louise's cell phone and texts him on her behalf, which leads to Louise and Hector meeting again and she invites him to her home, where he meets his son for the first time and is with her tolerates. A few days later, Jérémie feels lonely and seeks consolation from Louise, but when he hears Hector leaves, he follows him into a gay bar, where they kiss. After two weeks, Hector, Jérémie, Louise, Anna and Marie spend the weekend in the country with the children. At the end of the series, Hector is asked by Jérémie and Louise which of the two he will sleep with, but this remains unanswered.
occupation
The synchronization of the series was created at DMT based on a dialogue book and under the dialogue direction of Detlef Klein.
| role | actor | Voice actor |
|---|---|---|
| Hector | François Vincentelli | Sascha Draeger |
| Louise | Julia Faure | Rubina Kuraoka |
| Jérémie | Olivier Barthélémy | Peter Lontzek |
| Anna | Camille Chamoux | Tanja Geke |
| Françoise | Catherine Salée | Arianne Borbach |
| Marie | Yelle | Daniela Hoffmann |
| Malik | Larouci Didi | Jaron Lowenberg |
| Benjamin | Robin Egloffe | Dirk Stollberg |
reception
“The situation may be hair-raising absurd, but that doesn't change the fact that the characters have to deal with it somehow. After 90 minutes there is no cheap punchline and a sham solution that makes everyone laugh happily. After 90 minutes there is the explosion of all lies, which leaves all the characters in a heap - and with another 45 minutes in which they have to deal with it somehow. The fact that new and surprising constellations are forming in this network at this moment shows that thinking further with a longer duration is definitely worthwhile. And so a rather formulaic film becomes a charming and refreshingly different drama - and finally something like a genuine avant-garde film. Because precisely in the cultural moment when the liberalization of love in bourgeois gay marriage and funny patchwork threatens to bog (...) just at this moment I love you the real freedom that the LGBTQ community has always fought for: freedom to sweet insecurity, to love as chaos, to romantic chaos. "
Marcel Kawentel found in the Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung that the series would neither “tell something new” nor find a “new form for the old”. Although the figure constellation with the triangular relationship between Hector, Jérémie and Louise sounds modern, the implementation by the director Michel and the scriptwriters Joyard and Larcher is conservative. The first part of the series seems like a “ soap with the handbrake on”, while the second part is “general places of the comedy of confusion”. Only in the third part is it possible to generate emotional participation by looking at Jérémies and Louise's everyday life after the separation from Hector. However, both Hector due to his vanity and indecision and the staging, which cannot choose between comedy and tragedy, remain inaccessible.
Martine Delahaye was of the opinion in Le Monde that the series, which she described as a "romantic dramedy ", was a nice surprise. I love you! be so charming because she treats social issues in a casual way. The structure, tone, performance of the actors and the dialogues fit perfectly in every scene. This type of production gives the impression that the director and the scriptwriters have teamed up to "explode" the attraction of the characters and to explore a "sentimental streak without cynicism or inhibitions".
Stéphanie Guerrin wrote in Le Parisien that I love you! a modern and surprising mini-series. The production, which stands out above all as a love comedy, speaks with boldness and without any taboos subjects such as homo- and bisexuality as well as homosexual parenting. This challenge was successful because the series touches viewers through "extremely good" actors. Guerrin particularly emphasized the performance of François Vincentelli , who has never played a similar role and has never been so convincing. The three other leading actors Olivier Barthélémy , Julia Faure and Camille Chamoux are also “stunning insider tips”, and this quartet of actors is therefore a “real asset”.
Web links
- I love you! in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- I love you! at Fernsehserien.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Kevin Boucher: "J'ai 2 amours": Une mini-series réussie sur la bisexualité ce soir sur Arte. In: PureMédias. March 21, 2018, accessed March 5, 2020 (French).
- ^ Thomas Messias: "J'ai 2 amours", un regard intelligent sur les amours plurielles. In: Slate . March 21, 2018, accessed March 5, 2020 (French).
- ↑ German synchronous index | Series | I love you! In: German synchronous card index . Retrieved March 5, 2020 .
- ↑ Daniel Bickermann: The man and the woman of his life . In: fr.de . March 22, 2018. Accessed March 5, 2020.
- ↑ Marcel Kawentel: Bieder: Arte mini-series "I love you" disappointed. In: New Osnabrück Newspaper . March 22, 2018, accessed March 5, 2020 .
- ^ Martine Delahaye: De Paris à New York en passant par Hollywood: notre choix de séries. In: Le Monde . March 20, 2018, accessed March 5, 2020 (French).
- ↑ Stéphanie Guerrin: “J'ai 2 amours”: une mini-série modern et surprising. In: Le Parisien . March 22, 2018, accessed March 5, 2020 (French).