Jacky in the kingdom of women

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Movie
German title Jacky in the kingdom of women
Original title Jacky au royaume des filles
Country of production France
original language French
Publishing year 2014
length 93 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director Riad Sattouf
script Riad Sattouf
production Anne-Dominique Toussaint
music Riad Sattouf
camera Josée Deshaies
cut Juliette Denis
occupation

Jacky in the kingdom of women (original title: Jacky au royaume des filles ) is a French film by Riad Sattouf from 2014. The film is based on a comic by Sattouf and is about a society in which gender images are reversed and men wear a veil have to carry. The film launch in Germany was on February 19, 2015.

action

In the Republic of Bubunne women are in power ( matriarchy ), while men run the household, have to wear a veil and serve as objects of pleasure. This is the world in which 20-year-old Jacky lives, who, like many young men, dreams of marrying “La Colonelle”, the dictator's daughter. He lives with his mother Zani in his home village. She receives numerous marriage offers for Jacky, but she has so far refused all of them. His father died when he was conceived, so that his father's friend Julin brings him up with him. B. teaches to write.

When a traditional ball is to be held to find Colonelle's future husband, Jacky desperately wants to attend. However, the price of the tickets is prohibitively high for him and his mother. In order to get hold of a "treasure" that Julin says his father left him, he calls in the police. However, Julin arrested because he campaigned for men's rights and the overthrow of the ruling regime with leaflets. As a reward for the arrest of the long-sought foreign agent, he is given a ticket for the ball. Due to the sudden death of his mother, Jacky comes into the care of his aunt's family, who treats him as a house slave and takes the valuable ticket from him. Since he can no longer go to the ball, he flees his home village and meets Julin in the woods, who was able to escape from prison. He hands him his father's "treasure", a uniform of a female lieutenant.

Both travel to the palace in disguise as high-ranking female army officers in order to obtain passports for a planned escape abroad through black market deals. In the palace, Jacky, in disguise, finds himself in the middle of the ball. The dictator's daughter takes him into her private apartment, where she almost kisses him. Shortly afterwards, however, the relatives present at the ball reveal Jacky as a man. On his escape through the palace, he paralyzes the "big slime" and ends up in the colonelle's bedroom again. After a night of love, he is found there and arrested. Since revolutionaries want to storm the palace to free Jacky, the old general agrees to a marriage between Jacky and the colonelle, but wants to cut off Jacky's tongue first. Thereupon his future wife kills her mother.

The pictures that follow show Jacky as the popular future presidential husband at the opening of schools for boys and on various other official occasions. The last scene shows how Jacky and his Colonelle come out on the balcony of the presidential palace by taking off their clothes. It turns out that “La Colonelle” is also a man who, at the request of his mother, had to play the female lineage holder. The people see this amazing scene, and with a single shout of " blasphemy " the film ends.

useful information

Gori City Hall is the palace in the film
Tserovani settlement

The fictional country Bubunne has the same ground plan as Georgia . You can see the map in the scene with the "Big Slime". The town hall of Gori was used for the exterior shots of the palace of the ruling general . Other locations in Georgia are Tserovani , Rustavi , Tbilisi and the French film studio in Bry-sur-Marne .

The vehicles shown in the film are the UAZ-452 as ambulances and several of the PAZ-672 buses . The font used in the Bubunne republic is overdrawn Latin letters.

criticism

The film service judges that the “picturesque, surreal caricature is fed by set pieces from socialism, Islamic fundamentalism, military dictatorship and matriarchy, whereby the original world of signs and language is just as convincing as the setting, even if some jokes are overused”. Because the “comedy does without realpolitical allusions”, “clearer political statements are missing”.

Cosima Lutz says, “Sattouf's vision of a regime that oppresses men does not turn into a misogynistic manifesto, nor does it become an atheistic mockery of a certain religion. Instead, the big asshole discovers the system itself, which secures its power by devising a religious fable, letting one gender rule the other and selling this as eternal truth. It is abstruse, hostile to the body and unsavory, but it is not always as noticeable as in 'Jacky'. "

Awards

At its premiere at the International Film Festival Rotterdam , the film received the MovieZone Award. The reasoning states that the film is “like a classic fairy tale, but from a completely different perspective”. The makers had "created a completely new world", the film was "funny" and also had a "great message".

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Certificate of Release for Jacky in the Kingdom of Women . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , October 2014 (PDF; test number: 147 460 K).
  2. ↑ Release Info. Internet Movie Database , accessed December 17, 2015 .
  3. ↑ Jacky in the kingdom of women. Filmdienst , accessed on December 17, 2015 (short review).
  4. ↑ Cosima Lutz: Here the men have to wear veils. Welt , accessed on May 22, 2020 (review).
  5. ↑ Awards. Internet Movie Database, accessed on December 17, 2015 (English): “It was like a classical fairytale but with a completely different point of view. The makers of the film created a whole new world with the art direction and costume design and the film had a theme that everyone can relate to. The film was really funny but also had a great message. "