Madame (2017)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Madame |
| Original title | Madame |
| Country of production | France |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 2017 |
| length | 91 minutes |
| Age rating |
FSK 0 JMK 6 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Amanda Sthers |
| script | Amanda Sthers, Matthew Robbins |
| production | Cyril Colbeau-Justin , Jean-Baptiste Dupont , Alain Pancrazi , Laurent Bacri |
| music | Matthieu Gonet |
| camera | Regis Blondeau |
| cut | Nicolas Chaudeurge |
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Madame is a French comedy film from the year 2017 . Amanda Sthers directed and wrote the screenplay.
action
Anne and Bob Fredericks live in a city palace in Paris. Because money is running out, Bob has to sell a valuable painting by Caravaggio . That's why the art dealer David Morgan is invited to an opulent dinner with other guests. When Anne realizes that 13 people have been set, she has another place set and persuades her nanny Maria to be there as a “guest” at dinner. She should talk little and drink even less. Maria's table neighbor - whom Bob's son Steven had told Maria was a Spanish noblewoman - falls in love with Maria. She admits the good wine and entertains the group with a lewd joke. Anne sends her to her servants' room early.
David bombards Maria with text messages, invites her to the movies and goes out to eat with her in restaurants. Maria has never been so happy. Anne cannot believe that David is taking his Maria to her favorite restaurant and wants to explain to David that Maria is only her domestic servant and nanny. However, Bob holds her back because he wants to get the sale of the painting over and over first.
Bob's son, who is a writer, begins a new novel based on the previous plot.
During a country party , David and Maria meet the Fredericks couple. Out of necessity, Anne claims that Maria is an old friend of hers. When the picture is sold and the financial situation is saved, Anne David apparently clarifies the origin of Mary and her phone remains silent afterwards. In order to humiliate Maria completely, she lets Maria bring the tea for a conversation between her and David. He does not notice his former lover.
David recommends a happy ending to Bob's son for his novel.
Mary leaves the Fredericks house. She is smartly dressed, carries only a small bag and smiles.
Production and publication
Madame , Amanda Sthers' second directorial work after Je vais te manquer , was shot in Paris within six weeks from July 20, 2016. Although the film was produced by Studiocanal and other French companies, the original language of the film is English. Madame was first presented in June 2017 at the Zurich Film Festival and the Sydney Film Festival .
Reviews
The film review by Julia Dettke ( Die Zeit ) bears the subtitle: "The film Madame makes the arrogance of the upper class very funny on the class-political issue". The film seeks - in the guise of comedy - the confrontation with the viewer by mainly making fun of hypocritical tolerance and openness and describes the film as "a beautiful, nasty little film pearl".
The Neue Zürcher Zeitung writes: "The Parisian Amanda Sthers stages a clash of cultures, classes, generations and genders in which the most brutal battles between women are fought". Despite good actors, the director makes too little of her material.
On Filmstarts.de it says: “In“ Madame ”the filmmaker takes up classic fairy tale motifs and exposes the upper class as an externally flawless, internally all the more ugly society that clearly lags behind the materially inferior“ simple people ”on a human level. With subtle observations and ambiguous dialogues, Sthers turns the premise into satirical sparks and turns "Madame" into an entertaining tragic comedy. "
Web links
- Madame in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ Certificate of Release for Madame . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry (PDF).
- ↑ Age rating for Madame . Youth Media Commission .
- ↑ Julia Dettke: Proust, Eribon und das Dienstmädchen in: Zeit Online, November 28, 2017, accessed on March 22, 2018
- ↑ Nina Jerzy: “Madame” - Cinderella's dinner party in: Neue Zürcher Zeitung, December 6, 2017, accessed on March 22, 2018
- ↑ Madame Filmstarts.de, accessed on March 22, 2018