L'Avion - The Magic Airplane
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | L'Avion - The magic airplane L'avion |
| Country of production |
France Germany |
| original language | French |
| Publishing year | 2005 |
| length | 94 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 0 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Cédric Kahn |
| script | Cédric Kahn Ismaël Ferroukhi Gilles Marchand Raphaëlle Desplechin Denis Lapière |
| production |
Olivier Delbosc Marc Missonnier |
| music | Gabriel Yared |
| camera | Michel Amathieu |
| cut | Noëlle Boisson |
| occupation | |
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L'Avion - The Magic Airplane is a German-French fantasy drama by Cédric Kahn from 2005. It is based on the comic Charly by Magda Seron and Denis Lapière .
action
It's Christmas and little Charly wants nothing more than a bicycle. He is therefore disappointed when his father Pierre - he works as a pilot in the military and only comes home at night after Christmas - gives him a plane instead. Charly can not hide his disappointment from him and Pierre shows himself disappointed in front of his wife Catherine, because he built the white airplane himself for a long time. He indicated to his son that the bike might be waiting for him on his upcoming birthday. Shortly before his birthday, Pierre has to go back to work and promises Charly in a letter that he has not forgotten the bike. When the boy comes home from school that day, the entire family is gathered around the crying Catherine: Pierre was in a fatal car accident.
In the evening Charly finds the plane that his father had put on the wardrobe on the floor. He falls asleep with the plane in his arms, only to find it back on the cupboard the next morning. In front of his girlfriend, the neighboring daughter Mercedes, he claims that his plane can fly, but he can only prove this when the plane is stolen from schoolmates and flies back to him. Charly begins to talk to the plane, which in turn appears to give him answers via a red light inside. Charly hopes to find his father again by plane. One day when he stands on the roof of the house in the plane and wants to fly away with it, Catherine has enough. She takes the plane from Charly and locks it up. Shortly afterwards, the plane breaks through a window and races around the house before it can calm Charly down. Catherine alerts Pierre's former work colleague Xavier, who is taking the plane to his laboratory for tests. He knows that Pierre was researching something. The aircraft turns out to be extremely stable, but does not seem to have any discernible interior. Charly, on the other hand, runs away with Mercedes at night, breaks into the laboratory and takes the plane. Pursued by Xavier and numerous soldiers, he escapes to the roof of the laboratory complex and finally flies away by plane.
On the run, Charly crashes with the plane in a forest. He manages to escape Xavier, who has followed him, and finally collapses on a tower. The plane flies to Catherine, who has since found her husband's notes. In one photo he posed with a meteorite that he found in the desert of Egypt and that he found ideal for aircraft construction. Catherine discovers the plane that leads her to Charly. Xavier, desperate to own the plane, has followed them, but Catherine manages to outrun him. With Charly, the plane and Mercedes, who smuggled into the car as a stowaway, Catherine flees to the family's holiday home by the sea. Charly is sad because the plane seems to have lost its magical abilities. Mercedes advises him to bury the plane, she believes that wishes will come true when the buried disappears. Charly buries the plane in the sand at night. Shortly afterwards it is gone and his father stands in front of him. He asks Charly to be strong and to help his mother. He will be with him all his life, so Charly only has to look at a star in the sky. Charly, in turn, can now tell his father that he was happy about the plane and consciously say goodbye to him as he drifts out to sea in a boat and finally becomes a bright light in the sky. The next day, Catherine, Charly and Mercedes leave. Charly says that he will leave his plane behind because he no longer needs it.
production
L'Avion - The Magic Airplane was filmed under the working title Charly in the summer of 2004 in the MMC studios in Cologne . Other locations were the École primaire du Point du Jour in Boulogne-Billancourt , the Melun-Villaroche airport and the forest of Ermenonville . The budget was around 10 million euros. The film was one of twelve European co-productions for which the Eurimages Council of Europe Film Fund approved funding in July 2004. The Filmstiftung NRW supported the production with one million euros. Pascaline Chavanne created the costumes and Arnaud de Moleron designed the film .
L'Avion - The Magic Airplane came to French cinemas on July 20, 2005, where the film was seen by around 153,000 viewers. It was shown in German cinemas on May 3, 2007 and was released on DVD in December 2007.
criticism
"The convincingly played, beautifully photographed and very carefully staged children's film combines virtuoso touching, but never sentimental, fairy-tale-like entertainment with dealing with existential issues such as death, loss and grief," summarized the film-dienst . According to the Berliner Morgenpost, the director succeeded in making an “extraordinary, cautious children's film” .
Cinema described the film as a “mixture of everyday tragedy and fantastic fairy tale”, which initially worked, but at the end “[dresses] its message in cheesy, clumsy scenes that hastily link all loose threads to a happy ending”. Kahn told "poetically with professional actors, but oscillates indecisively between catchy realism, hair-raising kitsch and enchanting fairy tales," said the Stuttgarter Nachrichten . "With the magic airplane, Kahn found a beautiful parable for what it means to keep someone alive in their memories - but it is not easy to understand," stated the Süddeutsche Zeitung .
Awards
L'Avion - The Magic Airplane won the Lucas Award for Best Film in 2005 . The jury's statement said that the film “[impresses] with its clear visual language. The subject of death is presented very sensitively ”.
The German Film and Media Assessment FBW in Wiesbaden awarded the film the rating particularly valuable.
Web links
- L'Avion - The Plane in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b L'Avion - The Magic Airplane. on allocine.fr
- ↑ Council of Europe Film Fund grants 4.6 million euros for twelve films. In: APA W&B, July 7, 2004.
- ↑ A German-French fairy tale. In: Kölner Stadtanzeiger. October 23, 2004.
- ↑ L'Avion - The Magic Airplane. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ↑ Pictures that move. The 16th Berlin Children's and Youth Film Festival in the FEZ. In: Berliner Morgenpost. October 5, 2006, p. 24.
- ↑ L'Avion - The Magic Airplane on cinema.de
- ↑ Eva Maria Schlosser: Fairytale Farewell. In: Stuttgarter Nachrichten. May 3, 2007, p. 18.
- ↑ Susan Vahabzadeh: The Yo-Yo Effect. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung. May 3, 2007, p. 14.
- ↑ "Lucas" -Kinderfilmpreis goes to China and France. APA W&B, October 1, 2005.