Small wounds
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Small wounds |
| Original title | Petites coupures |
| Country of production | France |
| original language | French |
| Publishing year | 2003 |
| length | 92 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Pascal Bonitzer |
| script | Pascal Bonitzer Emmanuel Salinger |
| production |
Philippe Liégeois Jean-Michel Rey |
| music | John Scott |
| camera | William Lubtchansky |
| cut | Suzanne Koch |
| occupation | |
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Small wounds is a French love drama by Pascal Bonitzer from 2003.
action
Bruno Beckmann is a staunch communist and regularly distributes party newspapers on the streets of Paris. He starts an affair with the much younger Nathalie, which is why his wife Gaëlle leaves him for a while and goes to her mother. Bruno is desperate, but even when he threatens Gaëlle to cut off his fingers, she is not moved. He still adds a cut to himself. Bruno takes Nathalie to his uncle Gérard. There the young woman heard in an adjoining room how Bruno spoke to Gérard's wife Anne about her and made it clear that he actually found her immature and unattractive. Nathalie collapses and shortly afterwards drives off with Gérard's son Simon. Gérard is mayor of the small town of Chavenage and is concerned about his re-election. He also fears that his wife is having an affair with her doctor Verekher. At his request, Bruno should bring him a letter from Gérard in which Gérard found clear words. Bruno agrees, since Gérard threatens to kill himself with a pistol if he does not. As a precaution, Bruno takes the weapon and shortly afterwards hands it over to Fromager, a confidante of Gérard. Fromager's wife Mathilde is Gerard's secretary and occasionally accompanies Bruno in the car.
Bruno breaks down on the way to Verekher and goes to his property on foot. He injured himself on the branches of the trees and appeared completely deranged at Verekher's house. Bruno meets a former friend at Verekher's and also Verekher's stepdaughter, Béatrice. When Verekher wakes up briefly, Bruno hands him the letter. Verekher is beside himself and wants to write an answer by the next day, which is why Bruno is staying at the house. He goes on an evening drive with Béatrice. If it is only supposed to be used to bring the rubbish to the next street corner, both end up on the road all night. Bruno feels more and more drawn to Béatrice, who, however, always rejects him after a short rapprochement. She doesn't want a fleeting relationship or quick sex, she wants more. At the same time, she cannot start a serious relationship because she is married - with Verekher, with whom she had an affair during the lifetime of her mother, who died a few years ago. She asks Bruno if he would kill her husband out of love, but he initially refuses. When he realizes that there is no other way to be with her, he secretly turns the oxygen bottle on Verekher. The next morning Verekher and Béatrice have already left the house when Bruno wakes up. A car sent by Gérard awaits Bruno, so that he leaves without having seen Béatrice again.
Bruno lets himself be driven to the airport, where he wants to greet Gaëlle. However, she did not end up alone, but brought her new lover with her to Paris. She asks Bruno to go. He in turn seduces Mathilde out of desperation, who sits in the car as always. Both are interrupted when they are told by phone that Nathalie and Simon had an accident. Bruno visits Nathalie in the hospital, but it becomes clear that the two of them don't have much to say to each other. Shortly afterwards, Mathilde Bruno moves into the hospital park and they kiss. Suddenly Béatrice appears: she had gone to the hospital with Verekher that morning because his health had deteriorated overnight. Bruno immediately ignores Mathilde and confesses his love to Béatrice. She rejects him. Bruno remains alone, but suddenly sees Fromager in front of him, who has realized that Bruno wanted to seduce his wife. He shoots him with Gérard's gun and Bruno collapses in the snow. Some time later Verekher's funeral takes place. Bruno has just left the hospital and wants to start over. He has grown a full beard and is coming to the funeral. He does not go into Béatrice's easy flirtations. He doesn't say “goodbye” but “goodbye” and also refuses to be driven home by her. She is left alone.
production
Small wounds were shot in Paris, Grenoble and Lyon and in Corps, Isère. Further scenes were created in the French Alps, not far from La Salette-Fallavaux . The costumes were created by Pascaline Chavanne , the film construction was done by Emmanuel de Chauvigny . The production costs amounted to 6.5 million euros.
The film premiered on February 12, 2003 at the Berlinale and was shown in French cinemas at the same time. In France, 192,297 viewers saw the film in cinemas. A nationwide broadcast was neither in the cinema nor on television.
criticism
BBC Films called Kleine Wunden another bizarre comedy by director Bonitzer, which has a dream-like logic and less a stringent plot. It was criticized that the film hardly touches and transports few emotions.
For satt.org , Kleine Wunden was a "quiet, slow, but sympathetic film that hides its statements, but gains in importance due to the links in the life of each individual viewer."
Awards
The film was shown in the competition for the Golden Bear at the 2003 Berlinale . In 2004 Daniel Auteuil won an Étoile d'Or in the category “Best Actor” for Small Wounds .
Web links
- Small wounds in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Petites coupures on allocine.fr.
- ^ "Another bizarre comedy ... it carries surprisingly little emotional charge." Cf. Tom Dawson: Petites Coupures (Small Cuts) (2003) . bbc.co.uk, August 25, 2003.
- ^ Thomas Vorwerk: Berlinale: Competition: Small wounds . satt.org, accessed September 25, 2013.
- ↑ See small wounds on berlinale.de