Jeune Homme

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Movie
German title Jeune Homme
Original title Jeune Homme
Country of production Switzerland
original language French , Swiss German
Publishing year 2006
length 98 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director Christoph Schaub
script Maya Todeschini , Christoph Schaub , Marcel Hoehn
production Marcel Hoehn
music Courtship Bachmann , Peter Bräker , Michael von der Heide , Adrian Stern
camera Stéphane Kuthy
cut Marina Wernli
occupation

Jeune Homme is a film by director Christoph Schaub with Matthias Schoch in the leading role, shot in May / June 2005 in Zurich and Geneva , Switzerland . The film had its free TV premiere on September 30, 2007 .

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Jeune Homme tells the story of Sebastian Zollweger ( Matthias Schoch ), an 18-year-old German-speaking Swiss who applied to be an au pair in protest against the upright parents in French -speaking Switzerland . His shy and somewhat clumsy manner creates a lot of strange situations at the beginning. In addition, Sebastian can hardly speak French. In addition, Sebastian soon becomes a sexual object of desire for his older neighbor ( Nathalie Grandhomme ). Its only point of reference is the baby Mahaut. But actually he fell in love with the beautiful art student Elodie ( Jennifer Decker ), who is only interested in him as a nude model. This, his clumsiness in the household and the turbulence in the host family bring Sebastian to the edge of despair. He embarks on a sexual adventure with the neighbor. However, that only complicates the situation. Sebastian just wants to go home. However, the host father Hugues ( Didier Flamand ) persuades him to stay another weekend so that he can go away with his wife Madeleine ( Alexandra Vandernoot ). His task is to iron all of the laundry. The next day, Sebastian gets to work. Elodie enters the scene completely unexpectedly. Sebastian is ravished and it turns out that she is Hugues' daughter from his first marriage. Suddenly the world looks rosy again for Sebastian, because he sees a chance to get to Elodie. Now he is doing everything in his power to put the household in order so that he can stay with the host family. He also closes the deal with the neighbor. Thanks to his open-hearted manner, he not only manages to eliminate the host family's problems, but also to get the pretty Elodie, "l'élue de son coeur".

Reviews

  • "Sex, intercultural coexistence and the new gender roles. The film has something clever to say about all these topics, without the joke falling by the wayside. [...] Leading actor Matthias Schoch is a discovery as a young man on the way from the last pimple to the first stubble. […] Jeune Homme is a Swiss comedy that can be found funny in both the French and German parts of the country. And whoever succeeds in this feat should also be granted an international audience success! " - outnow.ch
  • "Christoph Schaub stages the airy, harmless Sunday evening story, to which the chansons of the francophile Michael von der Heide fit very nicely, with a light hand. He relies on situational and verbal comics, but in both of the quiet tones. A positive surprise the Winterthur Matthias Schoch in his first film role. " - The federal government
  • "What television tried so desperately with his soap Lüthi & Blanc , but failed, Schaub succeeds relatively easily - he turns the much-vaunted paper tiger« Idée suisse »into moving images." - Bern newspaper
  • "Matthias Schoch plays the character of Sebastian very believably. The change from insecure mother's boy to self-confident young man is relieved of him in every respect." - cineman.ch
  • "In the situation comedy , Jeune homme convinces with originality and also with nuanced nuances. [...] This is how Jeune homme has become an atypical Swiss film about typical Switzerland: The comedy has charm and lightness." - zisch.ch
  • "In his new film, the director not only manages to tell the story of a young man on his way to adult life in a funny and at the same time sensitive way. He also draws on the comedy of the characters and guides them with a fine hand through the light-footed film, which, however also does not miss the depth. " - Zürcher Unterländer
  • "Jeune Homme is dignified francophone ensemble cinema, which, in its comprehensive courtesy, is as sympathetic as the rickety French that Sebastian initially collects." - Zurich tip
  • " With his new film Jeune Homme , Christoph Schaub ( Sternenberg ) succeeded in an amazingly unpretentiously effective, romantic youth-heart-and-blood comedy, fresh from the liver. The film not only plays loosely with the problems and overcoming the Röstigraben , but also sets them psychological accents of the characters with precise ironic casualness "in Szene - Die Weltwoche

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