Island of thieves
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Island of thieves |
| Original title | L'île atlantique |
| Country of production | France |
| original language | French |
| Publishing year | 2003 |
| length | 92 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Gérard Mordillat |
| script | Gérard Mordillat |
| production | Denis Freyd |
| music |
Jean-Philippe Rameau , Johann Sebastian Bach , Louis Couperin , François Couperin , Elisabeth Jacque de la Guerre |
| camera | Christoph Henry |
| cut | Sophie Rouffio |
| occupation | |
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Island of Thieves is a French television film directed by Gérard Mordillat based on a 2003 novel by Tony Duvert .
action
A group of children go on a raid in their singing teacher's home. The older woman dies of a heart attack; an inspector starts the investigation. In addition to the daily small and large offenses, the relationships between the children and their parents are shown. After school, they flee their broken families whenever they can; their favorite place is an old bunker, where they meet every day, distribute loot, plan new raids and have fun with the baker, while the adults enjoy bourgeois harpsichord evenings together Pretend idyll. After a final attack, the children are betrayed from within their own group. Since they have little to blame, no further action will be taken against you.
criticism
“A film that can be interpreted allegorically, which contrasts the misdeeds of children with a loveless world of adults who exercise instrumentalized violence and only allow an escape into a world of their own, in which the bundling of powerlessness turns into a mad exercise of power. The mythically charged film tells of the dream of freedom and dignity. "
Characterizations
Mordillat juxtaposes different styles of upbringing, all of which fail, alienate children from their parents, and drive them into criminal gangs. One family maintains a strictly authoritarian style, whereby the husband is absolutely submissive to his wife, and drinks courage every day before he goes home from work. The frustrated housewife makes no secret of her hatred of her gosses , she is the literal dragon, devoid of all feelings, a source of pure, boundless terror. The children, including the grown-ups, live in constant fear of their parents. The 13-year-old son is once beaten half to death by his father with the belt - he had secretly left the house at night. The mother here lives out her sadism orgiastically, the desperate screams of her child feed in her perverse joy. The main victim, however, is the youngest, barely out of toddler age, who, because of his age, is still unable to adapt to his mother's whims. In this cold environment he gets sicker and sicker, the psychological pressure has a physical effect until he finally dies.
The exact opposite is the mother of two other of the children. Raised in the generation of 68, she cultivates a completely anti-authoritarian style of upbringing, which allows and forgives everything, can explain everything with psychology and completely lacks real human interest, concern and responsibility. Without guidance, the children have to learn to integrate into the social structure, which they cannot succeed and which can slide into the criminal.
The relationship between a very rich woman and her significantly younger, but no longer young gigolo, remains childless. When they too are attacked by the masked children, he takes the opportunity to kill his wife. The children built a gallows for her. Her husband pushes the stool away from under her feet and hangs her like this: If you only knew, Jil, how difficult it is to live with a rich woman . He later confesses to the murder.
Another style embodies Président Gassé, who rigorously encourages his young son to lie at the right moment, to betray, to secure his own advantage, to show loyalty only to those who will be of use in the future. He blackmailed him into betraying his friends and undermined the boy's natural sense of justice and honor, who still comments on the breach of the oath with dégolasse .
A strange interface between the adults and the children of the place is formed by the baker, who mainly but not only prostitutes herself with the children - towards President Gassé, who throws her money down like a dog's bones to the point of degradation.
Stylistic devices
The film is a collage of various other works, so both the baker and the criminal are reminiscent of Once Upon a Time in America, while the excesses of violence, robberies, the masks and some of the people are clearly inspired by Uhrwerk Orange and find their role models there.
The only musical means is the harpsichord, which directly and indirectly contrasts with works of the French and German baroque.
Web links
- Island of Thieves in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Isle of Thieves. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .