La belle Saison - A summer love

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Movie
German title La belle Saison - A summer love
Original title La Belle season
Country of production France ,
Belgium
original language French
Publishing year 2015
length 105 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director Catherine Corsini
script Catherine Corsini,
Laurette Polmanss
production Elisabeth Perez
music Grégoire Hetzel
camera Jeanne Lapoirie
cut Frédéric Baillehaiche
occupation

La belle Saison - Eine Sommerliebe is a French - Belgian melodrama by director Catherine Corsini from 2015. The film premiered on August 6, 2015 at the Locarno Festival , where it won the Variety Piazza Grande Award. It opened in German cinemas on May 5, 2016.

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The main character of La belle Saison - Eine Sommerliebe is the 23-year-old Delphine, who grew up as an only child on her parents' farm and was used to work there at an early age. When she finally moved to Paris in 1971 , she was confronted with fast-paced city life. Soon she joins a group of young women who organize numerous campaigns in the fight for women's rights . Delphine also meets the Spanish teacher Carole, who impresses her with her free lifestyle. The love affair that developed between the two women is suddenly jeopardized when Delphine has to leave Paris after her father's stroke to take over the work on the farm.

Carole decides to follow her great love Delphine and visits her on the farm. The two spend a happy summer working together on the farm. However, because of the conservative attitudes in the country , the lesbian relationship must remain a secret. When Delphine's mother Monique finds the two of them after a night of love together, a confrontation ensues. The mother tells Carole to leave the yard and dolphins. Confronted with this, Delphine decides not to let Carole leave alone and return to Paris with her. On the train ride there, her doubts come and she lets Carole go on alone, which means the separation of the two women.

The film ends with a timeline to 1976: Carole, who is now advising women on sexual health issues and is in a new lesbian relationship, receives a letter from Delphine. In this, she expresses her regret for leaving Carole, but also acknowledges that time cannot be turned back. She has left her parents' farm and now owns her own farm in the south of France.

production

The film was shot in Limousin and Paris between July 22 and September 16, 2014 . The budget for the film was around 4.8 million euros.

reception

The French press received the film mostly favorably. The French critics agree on the play of the leading actresses: In Le Monde and Les Inrockutibles , Cécile de France and Izïa Higelin are said to be "great" (" deux magnifiques actrices ") and "sensational actresses" (" deux actrices sensationnelles" ) to be; in the newspaper La Croix the praise is extended to the embodiment of the mother role by Noémie Lvovsky (" magnifique trio d'actrices "). It is positively emphasized in L'Humanité and L'Obs that the feminist liberation struggles that the characters fight in the first section of the film correspond to a meticulous reconstruction of the movement in the 1970s (" une reconstitution minutieuse de l'époque "), but would still be presented in such a way that these old, combative themes would find their place in a modern, jubilant film (“ film modern et jubilatoire ”) and the relevance in the present would be impressive. While the critics in La Croix and Les Inrockutibles rate the second section of the film, which takes place in the country after Delphine's return from Paris, as better, the critic of Télérama recognizes the tenderness and “the praiseworthy desire [of the main characters], intolerance to defy "(" le désir louable de braver l'intolérance "), but is not entirely convinced.

In the Anglo-Saxon region, too, La Belle Saison received largely positive reviews. In Hollywood Reporter, Boyd van Hoeij praises the chemistry of the leading actresses (“ their chemistry is so real and natural you can't help but root for them to be together ”) and the characterization down to the supporting roles. He complains, however, that Corsini fails to naturally combine the political issues of the first section of the film with the personal difficulties of the characters in the second section. English -speaking film critics often draw a comparison with Abdellatif Kechiche's Blue is a Warm Color , another internationally known French film from the 2010s about a relationship with women: Wendy Ide attests to La Belle Saison in the Observer that although it is less directly intimacy than blue is a warm color , it does nevertheless to show “a no less convincing sensuality” (“ a sensuality here that is no less persuasive ”). In the New York Times, Anthony Oliver Scott praised the fact that, unlike in Kechiche's film, the relationship between Delphine and Carole does not take place in a vacuum, but has to fit into the lives of the protagonists. In addition, Corsini pursues the "radical approach" (" a radical proposition ") that female passion can only be understood in the context of society as a whole if female freedom is taken into account, which is why feminism plays a larger role in her film.

German critics followed the basically good reviews. Luitgard Koch praised Corsini for cinema of how it works out in their film, the "sensual and erotic aspects" of the woman relationship, but without being voyeuristic. The “vital images of rural life” aroused “longing for a carefree attitude to life”. In his opinion, the main actresses convince “with their authentic, passionate game”. Thomas Vorwerk rates La Belle Saison for film releases as a "[g] sensitive love drama with small dramaturgical weaknesses". Simon Hauck compares the film, which portrays the “dreams of two women in love and life in a frenzy of society in 1968”, with an “airy - but not exclusively light - rosé wine ” for cinema time . Overall, the films Carol by Todd Haynes and Blau is a warm color by Abdellatif Kechiche better deal with the subject of lesbian relationships.

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  1. ↑ Release certificate for La belle Saison - A summer love . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry (PDF; test number: 158860 / K). Template: FSK / maintenance / type not set and Par. 1 longer than 4 characters
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  4. ^ Gerhard Midding: Review of La belle Saison - A summer love. In: epd-film. April 21, 2016, accessed February 19, 2019 .
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  14. ↑ a b Boyd van Hoeij: 'Summertime' ('La belle Saison'): Locarno Review. In: The Hollywood Reporter. July 8, 2015, Retrieved February 20, 2019 (American English).
  15. ↑ Wendy Ide: Summertime review - potent romance. In: The Guardian / The Observer. July 17, 2016. Retrieved March 22, 2019 (UK English).
  16. ↑ a b Anthony Oliver Scott: Review: Warm Burst of Romantic Bliss in 'Summertime'. In: The New York Times. July 21, 2016, Retrieved April 9, 2019 (American English).
  17. ↑ a b c Luitgard Koch: La Belle Saison - A summer love. In: Programmkino.de. Retrieved February 20, 2019 .
  18. ↑ Thomas Vorwerk: La Belle Saison - A summer love. In: Filmstarts.de. Retrieved February 20, 2019 .
  19. ↑ a b Simon Hauck: La Belle Saison - A summer love. In: Kino-zeit.de. Retrieved February 20, 2019 .