The rest!

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Movie
Original title The rest!
Country of production France
original language French
Publishing year 2003
length 102 minutes
Rod
Director Diane Kurys
script Florence Quentin
production Alain Terzian
music Paolo Buonvino
camera Robert Alazraki
cut Francine Sandberg
occupation

The rest! ( Eng .: "I stay!") is a French comedy film with Sophie Marceau and Vincent Perez from 2003.

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Marie-Dominique, known as “Marie-Do”, and Bertrand Delpire have been married for ten years. Marie-Do has always put her own needs behind those of her husband. While Bertrand travels a lot as a civil engineer, Marie-Do takes care of their son Jérôme and makes sure that Bertrand feels completely at home in her Paris apartment. She also supports her husband unconditionally in his great passion, cycling , and drives after him every weekend during his training. Bertrand takes her willingness to make sacrifices for granted and finds nothing in cheating on her with the flight attendants on his business trips to Rio de Janeiro .

Because Bertrand doesn't feel like watching a Vietnamese romance film with Marie-Do in the cinema on the weekend , Marie-Do ends up going alone. When she is sexually molested by a man there, she meets the screenwriter Antoine. Looking for a suitable birthday present for her husband's boss, Marie-Do meets Antoine again in a bookshop. Antoine wants to help her with her choice and is only too happy to advise her on buying the dress she will wear to the birthday party. The fact that she shows up at the party in a red dress and gave his boss a book about erotic paintings doesn't fit Bertrand at all - even if his boss likes the gift and his colleagues envy him for his gorgeous wife. Furious, he drives her home, where - to the annoyance of his neighbor - he listens to Jacques Brel's chansons, as he so often does .

Marie-Do finally meets with Antoine again. His attention gives her more self-confidence, whereupon she increasingly tries to emancipate herself from the self-centered Bertrand. While she is once again following Bertrand during his cycling training, she calls Antoine and finally has enough of the cars honking behind her. She overtakes Bertrand and drives to a rest area. When Bertrand arrives there exhausted, she tells him that she is fed up with his selfishness and paternalism and that she will file for divorce. Since their grandmother bequeathed their apartment to her, Bertrand is supposed to move out and look for another place to stay. While Marie-Do allows a man to take her with her, but still has the car keys with her, Bertrand has to cycle over 200 kilometers back to Paris. There he is initially accommodated in his in-laws' house.

When his next flight to Rio is canceled, Bertrand unexpectedly returns home and finds Antoine next to Marie-Do in the marriage bed. Antoine is able to escape from Bertrand in the bathroom and shortly afterwards knocks him down with a hairdryer. Determined to defend his territory and stay in the apartment, Bertrand makes sure that he gets pneumonia and is on sick leave. Marie-Do, who immediately sees through his plan, is disillusioned to learn that the divorce cannot be carried out without his consent. While Bertrand demonstratively spends more time with his son Jérôme, Marie-Do has the apartment prepared for an art exhibition. Bertrand then goes to Antoine and accuses him of having destroyed his marriage. Antoine, who uses Bertrand and Marie-Dos' marital problems as a template for his latest script, agrees on a deal with Bertrand. In order to get more material for his script, he gives Bertrand advice on how to win Marie-Do back. He also reveals to him that he is going on vacation with Marie-Do and Jérôme in his beach house in Normandy . The fact that Bertrand passes by on his bike as if by chance spoils Marie-Do's mood.

Back in Paris, Marie-Do wants to sell her apartment. A few months later she lives with Jérôme in a new apartment; Bertrand turns out to be the buyer of the old ones. There Antoine gives him his now finished script. Marie-Do comes by and says the script is funny, but she doesn't like the ending. She would have preferred it if the protagonist ended up looking for a new lover who also drives a Porsche . When Bertrand accompanies Antoine while cycling with Jérôme in the car, they meet Marie-Do in a Porsche at an intersection. She introduces them to John, their new lover. Bertrand then takes the bike from Antoine, throws it in a puddle and tells Marie-Do that he has always been too selfish to realize how much he loves her. Marie-Do says goodbye to John and Bertrand falls into her arms with relief. Together with Jérôme they walk hand in hand down the street, while Antoine looks after them, perplexed.

background

The shooting took place in Paris, in Blonville in Normandy and in Rio de Janeiro. The costumes were designed by Caroline de Vivaise . The budget was 10.43 million euros. The leading actors Sophie Marceau and Vincent Perez had already played lovers ten years earlier in Fanfan & Alexandre . Both films were produced by Alain Terzian .

The rest! started in French and Belgian cinemas on October 1, 2003. Around 740,000 viewers saw the film in France. It has not yet been published in Germany.

Reviews

"While Sophie Marceau still exudes a certain charm in impossible situations, a pale Berling and a once again deplorable Perez turn the film into a single tragedy," said Nicolas Bardot of Film de Culte . For Louise Keller from Urban Cinefile , Je reste! an unusual love triangle that "has a lot to offer with an original script and an irresistible leading actress".

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b cf. jpbox-office.com
  2. ↑ "Si Sophie Marceau distille un charme certain dans des situations impossibles, un Berling inexistant et un Perez lamentable (une fois de plus) achèvent d'emballer le corbillard." Nicolas Bardot: The rest! on filmdeculte.com
  3. ↑ "A love triangle with a different slant, 3 is a crowd has plenty to recommend it with its original screenplay and irresistible leading lady." Louise Keller: The rest! at urbancinefile.com.au