Laurence Anyways

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Movie
German title Laurence Anyways
Original title Laurence Anyways
Country of production Canada
original language French , English
Publishing year 2012
length 168 minutes
Age rating FSK 6
Rod
Director Xavier Dolan
script Xavier Dolan
production Charles Gillibert ,
Nathanaël Karmitz ,
Lyse Lafontaine
music Noia
camera Yves Bélanger
cut Xavier Dolan
occupation
synchronization

Laurence Anyways is a Canadian film drama by Xavier Dolan-Tadros from the year 2012 .

action

September 1989: Laurence Alia is a transgender woman who has not yet come out. She works as a literature teacher and has been in a steady relationship with Frédérique Belair, known as Fred, for two years. Fred works in film, while Laurence writes poetry and short stories alongside her work and has just been awarded a smaller literary prize. One month later it is Laurence's 35th birthday. Fred gives her a short trip to New York City and talks to her while drunk in the car until she yells at her to keep quiet and she would die if "[she] didn't say it." She reveals to her that she lives in the wrong body and has now decided to finally live as a woman. A world collapses for Fred. She gropes her way questioningly - whether she, Laurence, has ever dressed as a woman in the last few months, whether she has put on her underwear, whether she is homosexual. Later she cries out to her mother and sister Stef. Both advise her to leave Laurence. At that time, Fred realizes she is pregnant and has the child aborted without telling Laurence about it. She visits her parents in November. The relationship with the father is badly disturbed, the mother never saw her as a son. She reveals to her mother that she will live as a woman, but her mother is not surprised. She says she should sort out her problems herself. Fred, in turn, decides against her family's advice: She wants to get through the difficult time with Laurence.

At the beginning of 1990 Laurence tried for the first time to go public in women's clothes, but initially failed because she felt too watched. On the first day of school after the Christmas holidays, she finally appears in front of her class with make-up and costume. Her hair is still short as a man. The students deal with the new situation in an unexpectedly relaxed manner for Laurence, which she is very happy about. Fred gives her a wig to celebrate the day , but Laurence only wears it to please her. The next time Fred is bothered and she becomes depressed. Laurence, in turn, is dismissed by the school board after parents protests. As she is sitting in a bar soon afterwards, a man approaches her and tries to touch her, but Laurence knocks him down with a headbutt. The man then beats her up. Laurence finally stands bleeding in the street looking for a public telephone. Her mother refuses to see her, but she finds refuge with Baby Rose, who happens to be passing by and is part of the travesty group Les cinq Roses ("The Five Roses"). Later, Fred and Laurence are having brunch in a café when the owner keeps coming by the table and making curious remarks about Laurence and her appearance. Her busy curiosity brings the barrel to overflowing for Fred and she yells at the woman, relieving her of the pain of having to experience her former boyfriend as a woman, her fear for Laurence and her powerlessness of being unable to endure anything. She escapes from the café and goes home alone. Alone, she also accepts an acquaintance's invitation to a film ball and has fun completely detached from her everyday life. There she meets a man with whom she has an affair. A month later she confesses this to Laurence, moves out of the shared apartment and goes to Trois-Rivières . Laurence, in turn, makes up with her mother.

Trois-Rivières in 1995: Laurences Transition is advanced and she has grown her hair long. She now lives with Charlotte, while Fred and her husband Albert raise their son Leo. It's Christmas and Fred has to throw a family party that shows that being a housewife makes her desperate. Laurence celebrates with the "Five Roses". She later meets her mother, who is planning to move. She confesses to her that she has never seen her son in Laurence, but that she accepts her as a daughter. Shortly thereafter, Laurence published her new volume of poetry D'Elles (“About Women”) and sent it to Fred by post. In her poems she has included aspects of Fred's life and Fred realizes that Laurence does not live and work in Paris as expected, but has to be nearby. She sends her a letter through the publisher, asking her to come to her. The letter first falls into the hands of Charlotte, who then leaves Laurence. Laurence rushes to Fred and they both embrace as if they had never been apart. They decide together (for a few days) to "flee" and travel to the Île au Noir. Charlotte watches as the two leave the house.

Laurence knows a couple who are friends on the Île au Noir. The man Alexandre has undergone gender reassignment in his past. Laurence wants to show Fred that it is possible to live together in such a constellation. Fred does not realize that Alexandre was once transsexual and is surprised and shocked when she finds out. Meanwhile, her husband Albert has learned from Charlotte that Fred is not working on a film as he claims, but is instead traveling with Laurence. In her anger at Laurence, who has hidden the meaning of the trip from her, the anger at Charlotte and her own naivete mix. She argues with Laurence, for whom she should leave her family. Laurence learns that she has a child. She also admits that she was pregnant at the time Laurence came out of hers, but had the child aborted because she hoped to give their relationship another chance. The next morning Laurence disappeared.

In 1999 Laurence returned to Montréal after three years in the USA . She has published a new book and wants to meet friends again in town and visit her sick mother. She gives a journalist an interview about her plans and goals, whereby she first has to fight against their bias. She has now become an attractive woman and dresses flawlessly. She learns from Fred's sister Stef that Fred has left her husband. Stef gives her Fred's number and they both meet in a bar. During the conversation, Laurence realizes that both of them had relationship problems even before they decided to live as women. Fred is outraged that Laurence is portraying it as if the relationship had broken up anyway. She retires to the toilet and finally leaves the café via a back exit. Laurence also leaves after a short time.

Looking back, we see how Laurence and Fred once met on a film set. Laurence had made a bet with friends that she would give Fred a handicraft butterfly. She introduced herself to Fred as Laurence Alia and replied to her last name “Alia. Mais, c'est Laurence anyways "(" Alia. But in any case Laurence "- but in German dubbing" Laurence ... anyways ").

production

Melvil Poupaud, who took on the role of Laurence

Laurence Anyways was a project close to the heart of Xavier Dolan, which he had been preparing over the years. He got the idea for the film in autumn 2008 from a staff member of his directorial debut I Killed My Mother , whose boyfriend had told her that he wanted to live as a woman. “I was speechless and immediately started mentally preparing the film. When I got home, I immediately wrote 30 pages [script], ”Dolan said, looking back. Dolan only made his second film Heartbreaker because he didn't have enough money to make Laurence Anyways . Heartbreaker became a success and led, among other things, the Québec film subsidy to provide production funds for Laurence Anyways . The total cost of the film was approximately $ 10 million.

Dolan cast roles in the film with actors with whom he had already worked in his earlier films, so Anne Dorval was again given a supporting role. Suzanne Clément, who played Fred, had already played a supporting role in I Killed My Mother . Louis Garrel , who played a small role in Heartbreaker, was originally intended to play Laurence , but he dropped out shortly before shooting began. Two weeks before shooting began, the role was replaced with Melvil Poupaud, who, like Garrel, is French. Dolan, who had always cast himself in the leading roles in his films, can only be seen for a split second in a scene at the Cinébal. As in his film I Killed My Mother , his father Manuel Tadros plays a small supporting role - here as a landlord.

By the end of June 2011 the film was half shot; further filming took place from autumn 2011. The film was shot in Colorado, Miami, Montréal and Trois-Rivières as well as in Paris.

Laurence Anyways premiered on May 18, 2012 at the Cannes International Film Festival as part of the Un certain regard series. In Germany it was first seen on October 2, 2012 at the Hamburg Film Festival . The film opened in German cinemas on June 27, 2013.

synchronization

The film was set to music at Rotor Film Babelsberg. Christoph Cierpka wrote the dialogue book and directed the dialogue.

role actor Voice actor
Laurence Alia Melvil Poupaud André Szymanski
Frédérique "Fred" Belair Suzanne Clément Anita Vulesica
Julienne Alia Nathalie Baye Katharina Lopinski
Stéfanie "Stef" Belair Monia Chokri Sanam Afrashteh
Journalist Susan Almgren Anna Barbara Kurek
Michel Lafortune Yves Jacques Frank-Otto Schenk
Andrée Belair Sophie Faucher Eleonore Weisgerber
Charlotte Magalie Lépine Blondeau Luise Helm
Mamy Rose Catherine Bégin Gisela Fritsch
Baby rose Emmanuel Schwartz Rainer Fritzsche
Dada Rose Jacques Lavallée Uli Krohm
Tatie Rose Perrette Souplex Kornelia buoy
Shookie Rose Patricia Tulasne Sabine Falkenberg
Albert David Savard Viktor Neumann
Francine Monique Spaziani Silke Matthias
Head of the Créperie Denise Filiatrault Sonja German
Élise Voïlinsky Violet Chauveau Almut Zydra
Fanny Mylène Jampanoï Anna Grisebach
Alexandre Jacob Tierney Alexander Doering
President of the school council Gilles Renaud Eberhard Haar
Mélanie Anne-Elisabeth Bossé Meriam Abbas
Pierre Alia Vincent Davy Rudiger Evers
landlord Manuel Tadros Tayfun Bademsoy
Marco de Bellefeuille Alexandre Goyette Sebastian Christoph Jacob

criticism

The Neue Zürcher Zeitung called Laurence Anyways a “bold feature film that is exceptional in terms of both content and artistic and design”. For the story, director Xavier Dolan found “an intense visual language of showing and concealing, of foreignness and closeness. Even if there are certain lengths in the second part [of the film], it remains a boundless, disturbing experience. "

Steve Gravestock of the Toronto International Film Festival called the film an "epic romance" and Dolan's most stylish and mature film work to date. The film looks like " Storm heights in wild Montréal, with a transsexual Heathcliff and a punk Catherine", numerous scenes are breathtaking in their flowery, pompous nature. Laurence Anyways is one of the boldest and wildest reflections of love and sexuality that has ever been filmed in Canada.

Birgit Roschy from the film magazine epd Film rates the film as an impressive example of “Dolan's cinema of emotions, music and aesthetics go hand in hand and hit the heart. In a mixture of video clip and nouvelle vague flair, he illustrates, between intoxicating romance and bitter sarcasm, the deep truth behind the saying 'clothes make the man'. "

Awards

Laurence Anyways has received numerous international awards and nominations. Xavier Dolan was awarded the Queer Palm at the Cannes International Film Festival in 2012 . Suzanne Clément received the award for best actress in the series Un certain regard for her portrayal of Fred in Cannes . The film was named Best Canadian Feature Film at the Toronto International Film Festival in 2012.

In 2013 Laurence Anyways received a César nomination for Best Foreign Film . It won two Canadian Screen Awards (Best Costume, Best Make-up) and was nominated for eight other Canadian Film Awards. Also in 2013 the film was nominated for a Guldbagge in the category Best Foreign Film . He won three Jutra Awards and was nominated for eight other Jutra Awards. Xavier Dolan also received a Prix ​​Lumières for Laurence Anyways in the category of Best French-Language Film.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Release certificate for Laurence Anyways . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , June 2013 (PDF; test number: 139 343 K).
  2. ↑ "I was breath-taken, and immediately started typing the film in my mind. When I got home, I wrote 30 pages." Michael Haneke gets sincere, Xavier Dolan clears the air , cannesreport.blogs.france24.com, 20. May 2012.
  3. ↑ a b Daniel Sander: Icarus flies . In: Der Spiegel , No. 7, 2011, June 27, 2011.
  4. ^ Michael Haneke gets sincere, Xavier Dolan clears the air . cannesreport.blogs.france24.com, May 20, 2012.
  5. ^ El Harris: Melvil Poupaud and Suzanne Clément on Laurence Anyways . thefilmreview, December 1, 2012.
  6. ↑ German synchronous index: German synchronous index | Movies | Laurence Anyways. Retrieved April 3, 2018 .
  7. ↑ Laurence Anyways . Neue Zürcher Zeitung, March 13, 2013.
  8. ^ "Laurence Anyways feels like Wuthering Heights relocated to the wilds of Montreal, with a transgender Heathcliff and a punked-out Catherine" Cf. Steve Gravestock: Laurence Anyways: Programmer's Note ( memento of August 24, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) . tiff.net, 2012.
  9. ↑ Steve Gravestock: Laurence Anyways: Programmer's Note ( Memento of August 24, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) . tiff.net, 2012.
  10. ↑ Birgit Roschy: Critique of Laurence Anyways. epd film, accessed October 31, 2014 .