La jeune fille sans mains
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | La jeune fille sans mains |
| Country of production | France |
| original language | French |
| Publishing year | 2016 |
| length | 76 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Sébastien Laudenbach |
| script | Sébastien Laudenbach |
| production | Jean-Christophe Soulageon |
| music | Olivier Mellano |
| camera | Sébastien Laudenbach |
| cut | Sébastien Laudenbach Santi Menasi |
La jeune fille sans mains is a French animated film directed by Sébastien Laudenbach from 2016.
action
A miller lives in great need with his wife and daughter. It is a dry summer and the stream by the mill has hardly any water, so the mill does not run. The only thing left in the family is an apple tree behind the mill that bears fruit. One day the daughter is sitting in the apple tree when the devil comes to the miller in human form. He promises the miller wealth if he gives him what is behind the mill. The miller agrees and the brook swells, only that from now on it carries gold. The miller realizes too late that he has not only promised the devil the apple tree, but also his daughter.
The family gets rich from selling gold and soon has a stately home. One day the devil appears to get the daughter. However, it is too pure for him to be unable to own. While the mother continues to try to wash the child in order to maintain her purity, the father forces the daughter to stay on the apple tree. Wild dogs prevent her from getting off the tree. When the mother tries to bring her water, the animals kill her. When the devil appears again, he cannot take the girl with him because her hands are wet with tears and she is too pure as a result. At the devil's command, the father chops off the daughter's hands. However, because the daughter cries on her stumps, the devil leaves her behind. Since her father has put the property over his own daughter, the daughter leaves him. The father collapses crying.
The girl goes wherever the road takes her. After an arduous hike, she comes to a river with a pear tree on the opposite bank. When trying to cross the river, the river catches her and she sinks to the bottom. There the river goddess saves her and puts her in the pear tree in a prince's garden. The prince sees the glow of the goddess and rushes to the tree where he sees the young woman. It's love at first sight; shortly afterwards the wedding takes place and he gives her golden hands. The very next day he has to go to war. Months later, she gives birth to their child - a son. The gardener who looks after them announces the birth to the prince. However, the letter is intercepted and changed by the devil. The prince reads that his wife gave birth to a monster. His answer - he will still love the child - is manipulated by the devil, so that the gardener receives the answer instead that he should kill his wife and child. He helps them both to escape and instead kills a lamb whose eyes he is saving. Princess and son flee along the river into the mountains, where the river goddess shows them the way to an abandoned hermit cave. Both live here carefree for several years.
When the prince returns from the war, he realizes that his letter was forged and goes in search of his wife and child. He also comes to the house of the miller who hanged himself. The prince takes the ax that once severed his wife's hands and follows the river into the mountains, where he sees his wife and child again. However, they do not recognize him at first and believe it is the father because he has the ax with him. But as if by a miracle, the young woman gets her hands back. The prince clears up the work of the devil. When the devil seizes their son as a bird of prey, the prince and princess fight him - the young woman chops off the devil's head in the form of a wild boar. The devil reveals himself and means that from now on he will leave the woman alone and look for an easier victim. The prince and his wife decide to look for a new home as a family and not to return to the castle.
production
La jeune fille sans mains was Sébastien Laudenbach's first full-length animation. The film is loosely based on the fairy tale The Girl Without Hands by the Brothers Grimm . From 2001, Laudenbach initially worked for seven years in the team on the film, which was originally intended to be an adaptation of Olivier Py's play La jeune fille, le diable et le moulin (itself an adaptation of Grimm's fairy tale). The project failed due to a lack of financial resources. Laudenbach went back to work on the film alone and decided to start over from scratch. He animated La jeune fille sans mains chronologically and without a storyboard, which means that large parts of the film, according to Laudenbach, were improvised. He drew the film alone, analogously sheet by sheet and in watercolor and ink, occasionally producing overlays similar to multiplan cameras with semi-transparent layers .
The pure animation of the film took a year. Sometimes the animations appear fragmentary and unfinished, but when they move they result in whole shapes and figures. Laudenbach described the style of animation as being inspired by "cryptokinography":
«[C'est] a technique de dessins aux traits simples et inachevés dont le motif n'est révélé que par l'animation des images. As an example, des taches de couleurs sur des dessins successifs font apparaître à l'écran and chat à la silhouette fuyante. »
“[It is] a drawing technique with simple and unfinished lines, the motif of which only becomes visible through the movement of what is depicted. For example, colored dots on consecutive drawings show the fleeting outline of a cat. "
Critics compared Laudenbach's drawing style with works by Henri Matisse and Raoul Dufy and Chinese calligraphy . Laudenbach chose the partly cryptic drawing style not only for artistic, but also for financial reasons. He also allowed him to draw the film by himself.
La jeune fille sans main premiered on May 12, 2016 at the Cannes International Film Festival , when the ACID section (Association du cinéma indépendant pour sa diffusion) opened. Further festival performances followed, including the Festival du film de Cabourg (June 8, 2016) and the Festival d'Animation Annecy (June 13, 2016). The film opened in French cinemas on December 14, 2016. In Germany, La jeune fille sans main was shown on October 2, 2016 at the Hamburg Film Festival , where it was shown in the original and with English subtitles. Under the title The Girl Without Hands , the film was broadcast on arte on June 13, 2019 in the original with German subtitles.
synchronization
| role | Voice actor (original) |
|---|---|
| girl | Anaïs Demoustier |
| prince | Jérémie Elkaïm |
| devil | Philippe Laudenbach |
| gardener | Sacha Bourdo |
| father | Olivier Broche |
| mother | Françoise Lebrun |
| River goddess | Elina Löwensohn |
Awards (selection)
La jeune fille sans mains was nominated for a César for Best Animated Film in 2017 . In the same year the film received a nomination for a Prix Lumières in the category Best Animated Film. The film was nominated for the Golden Tulip in the International Competition at the International Istanbul Film Festival .
Web links
- La jeune fille sans mains in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- La jeune fille sans mains on allocine.fr
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Thomas Imbert: La Jeune Fille Sans Mains: rencontre avec Sébastien Laudenbach . allocine.fr, December 14, 2016.
- ↑ a b Stéphane Dreyfus: Sébastien Laudenbach, conteur au fil du pinceau . la-croix.com, December 20, 2016.
- ↑ a b Olivier Père: ARTE Kino Festival: The Girl Without Hands by Sébastien Laudenbach arte.tv, October 2, 2016.
- ^ Marc-André Lussier: La jeune fille sans mains: une oeuvre d'art . lapresse.ca, August 18, 2017.
- ↑ Secrets tournage - Esthétique infinie on allocine.fr
- ↑ Mari Ness: Fairy Tale Animation: La Jeune Fille Sans Mains (The Girl Without Hands) . tor.com, September 6, 2018.
- ↑ Patrick Barrès, Serge Verny: Les expériences du dessin dans le cinéma d'animation . Editions L'Harmattan, 2016, p. 17.
- ↑ Isabelle Regnier: “La Jeune Fille sans mains”: conte et calligraphie chinoise . lemonde.fr, May 11, 2016.
- ↑ La jeune fille sans mains on filmfesthamburg.de