L'Amour (2000)

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Movie
German title L'Amour
Original title L'amour, l'argent, l'amour
Country of production Germany , Switzerland , France
original language German
Publishing year 2000
length 137 minutes
Age rating FSK 16
Rod
Director Philip Groening
script Philip Groening
Michael Busch
production Philip Gröning
Dieter Driver
Res Balzli
Françoise Gazid
Michael Weber
Uwe Boll
music Darlene Hofner
Fred Frith
camera Sophie Maintigneux
Max Jonathan Silberstein
André Bonzel
cut Valdís Óskarsdóttir
Max Jonathan Silberstein
occupation

L'Amour is a German-Swiss film drama by director Philip Gröning , which was made as a French co-production in 2000.

action

It is winter and freezing cold in Berlin when the young unskilled worker David accidentally meets the young prostitute Marie one night on the street. He falls in love with her, but she initially rejects him because he is penniless. Because of his persistence, he still manages to win her over, and on New Year's Eve they both set off headlong with Marie's car towards the Atlantic coast, although they have only known each other for a few days. Your difficult love will be put to the test again and again on this journey. At first there is no lack of money, as Marie continues to work as a prostitute; But David finds it difficult to cope with it, especially since the downsides are now showing when living together: Marie suffers from dissociative identity disorder and even throws him out of the picture one night, but can no longer remember it the next day. But David doesn't let that put him off and tries to relieve Marie by taking on odd jobs again, but doesn't do it very cleverly and gets injured, so that Marie apparently has no choice but to start working again. They both rent an apartment and David tries to be their pimp and organizes suitors. Business is going well at first, so that Marie can even save money, although both of them literally throw the money out of the window. But the supposed security under David's protection quickly crumbles when a local pimp becomes aware of the young couple. David is brutally kicked and Marie brutally raped and is supposed to work for the local pimp from now on. Both flee and resume their original plan: the Atlantic coast, which they finally reach. Money problems come to light again and again and lead to arguments, another carelessness even leads to Marie's car, which also served as a place to sleep, burned down. At the end of the film, both of them (trapped in an ATM cell) are waiting for the police because David couldn't keep his temper under control. The alternative ending of the film still has a kind of happy ending for the viewer in which the contempt for the quickly earned money also reaches its climax.

Awards

criticism

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IMDb
OFDb

“Philip Gröning merges the classic prostitution issue with the methods of the road movie and creates a gripping movie that feeds its energy from the diametrical poles of the total utopia of unconditional love on the one hand and money as a symbol of pragmatism on the other. - Worth seeing"

- Lexicon of international film : (Supplementary volume Filmjahr 2002 )

“A mixture of a rough love story and a road movie, whose atmospheric images of desolate cityscapes are underlaid with a sensitive soundtrack. Played excellently in the female lead, the film suffers from an otherwise indecisive actor management and repeated lengths. "

- Lexicon of international film : (Edition 2002, Volume 2)

"Road movie about an outsider couple whose love overcomes even the most adverse circumstances."

- Kino.de

"For 130 minutes a great solo like at a legendary rock concert, (...) a color and a rush of rhythms without end."

- Dominik Graf

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d L'Amour in the Internet Movie Database (English) ; accessed on January 12, 2018
  2. ^ L'Amour in the online film database ; accessed on January 12, 2018
  3. ↑ L'Amour. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed January 12, 2018 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  4. ↑ Film plot and background . Kino.de . 2002. Retrieved April 19, 2018.