Le dernier pour la route
| Movie | |
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| Original title | Le dernier pour la route |
| Country of production | France |
| original language | French |
| Publishing year | 2009 |
| length | 106 minutes |
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| Director | Philippe Godeau |
| script |
Agnès de Sacy Philippe Godeau Hervé Chabalier |
| production | Philippe Godeau |
| music | Jean-Louis Aubert |
| camera | Jean-Marc Fabre |
| cut | Thierry Derocles |
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Le dernier pour la route is a French drama directed by Philippe Godeau from 2009. It is based on the novel of the same name by Hervé Chabalier .
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Hervé Chabalier is the owner of a Paris press agency and has been an alcoholic for years . Now he goes to La Roselière rehab for five weeks to get rid of the addiction. He shares the room with Pierre, who has already been treated for a few weeks and keeps joking about everyone's situation. Hervé and Pierre are in turn part of a therapy group who take part in therapy sessions together and also spend their free time together. If Hervé initially takes part in the meetings in silence and takes note of some of the rituals in a strange way, he soon accepts his dependence on alcohol. He learns to subordinate himself to the group and also to subordinate himself.
One day the young Magali joins the group. Hervé cannot believe or understand that at 23 she is actually an alcoholic. When everyone in a therapy session is asked to tell a partner their worst, alcohol-related moments, Magali pretends to tell him a story of lies in front of Hervé, about a drunk night, sex with an old man and the sobering up in a police cell. Hervé has to repeat the story in front of the group, she tells them motionlessly and says that it is nonsense. Magali accuses him of not knowing her at all and angrily hurries away. A little later, the two get along because Magali has found a young kitten that she wants to look after. He helps her with it.
Hervé survived the first few days well and is released from quarantine. He can now walk in the park, receive mail and make phone calls. One day, Pierre went missing and was found drunk in a restaurant. Before Hervé, he admits that he probably won't be able to make it. Hervé, in turn, receives a visit from his wife, who, in the presence of the therapists, makes it clear to him that she was at the end of her strength and that he has destroyed her life and that of their son Thomas - they are better off without him. Thomas has not spoken to Hervé for a year and also refused to visit him in the institution.
One day, Hervé finds Magali crying. The kitten died and they are burying it. Magali makes it clear that she wants to sleep with Hervé. When he agrees, she sends him off. Therapy sessions follow. Hervé talks about his life and about his father's funeral, which he used to empty his wine cellar and fall to the ground in front of the mourners. Thomas overcomes himself and visits his father. He asks direct questions, which Hervé answers honestly, even if he cannot answer the question why he had to drink. While talking, Hervé sees Magali leaving with a stranger. A little later he meets her drunk. The man had smuggled alcohol into the premises for her in a tube of toothpaste. Magali is kicked out of the institution. Shortly afterwards, Hervé also loses Pierre, with whom he had become friends: Pierre suddenly spits up blood at night and finally dies shortly afterwards in the hospital.
For the first time in three weeks, Hervé has 24 hours of free time. He goes alone to a restaurant that he actually wanted to visit with Pierre. He then makes an appointment with Magali in a disco. Magali, however, is drunk and crazy. When she briefly leaves him, he leaves without having accepted any drinks offered. After five weeks, Hervé is released. After some time, he sums up that some of his group members have relapsed, but others have managed to take off. He himself is dry, but Magali disappeared without a trace a short time after their last meeting.
production
Le dernier pour la route , dt. About the last [glass] on the way (= "Absacker"), was the directorial debut of producer Philippe Godeau, who was also involved in the script and produced the film. The production costs amounted to around 8.9 million euros. The film drama is based on the autobiographical novel Le dernier pour la route (2004) by Hervé Chabalier, who was also involved in the script. He can also be seen briefly as a train traveler at the beginning of the film. François Cluzet, who was an alcoholic himself until 2001, initially turned down the lead role because he suspected the story of a drinker in the film.
The shooting took place from September 15 to November 8, 2008 in Paris and Aix-les-Bains . The rehab facility in the film was actually the Château de Peyrieu . Anne Schotte created the costumes, Thérèse Ripaud designed the film .
Le dernier pour la route opened in French cinemas on September 23, 2009, where it was seen by around 435,000 viewers. The film was released on DVD in France in January 2010. It has not yet appeared in Germany (as of November 2014).
Awards
At the César 2010 Mélanie Thierry received the award for the best young actress . The film was nominated for four other Césars: in the categories of Best Actor (François Cluzet), Best Supporting Actor (Michel Vuillermoz), Best Adapted Screenplay (Philippe Godeau, Agnès de Sacy) and Best First Work (Philippe Godeau).
Web links
- Le dernier pour la route in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Cf. allocine.fr
- ^ Ghislain Loustalot: François Cluzet et le vertige de l'alcool . parismatch.com, September 26, 2009.
- ↑ Sectres tournage - Dates et lieux de tournage on allocine.fr