Mademoiselle (film)

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Movie
German title Mademoiselle
Original title Mademoiselle
Country of production United Kingdom of
France
original language English
Publishing year 1966
length 100 minutes
Age rating FSK 16
Rod
Director Tony Richardson
script Marguerite Duras ,
Jean Genet (template)
production Oscar Lewenstein
music Antoine Duhamel
camera David Watkin
cut Sophie cous being
occupation

Mademoiselle is a Franco-British feature film from 1966.

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Mademoiselle is a junior teacher in a village in Provence . The viewer observes some of their sinister acts such as a village flooding by mountain spring water, the crushing of young nest eggs, the killing of the blossoms of a tree with a cigarette. An Italian woodcutter (Manou), who works as a guest worker in the village with a friend and his son, is particularly skilled at the extinguishing work and unintentionally becomes a local hero whom the women there secretly admire. The men resent his actions, however, and assume that he intended to stand out and look good with women. The accidents accumulate due to several fires and a well poisoning, the village wants someone to blame. The police are powerless for lack of evidence, Mademoiselle leaves no trace. Nobody in the village gets the idea that the respected and lonely teacher could be the perpetrator. Some men, out of anger, decide to lynch and chase the lumberjack.

Mademoiselle had meanwhile observed the Italians in the forest and is now coming closer to the woodcutter while the men of the village are already looking for him. They spend a casual and free night together in the field. In an entertaining conversation between the two of them the next morning, the woodcutter announces that he wants to leave town with his son the next day. The teacher moves away from him and returns to the village barefoot, in tattered clothes and slightly apathetic, without saying a word. Some villagers coddle on her way home and ask Mademoiselle whether "he" is what is in the affirmative laconically by it was. When the Italian returns to the village, some men beat him to death. Mademoiselle leaves the village quickly, but is recognized by the Italian's son as responsible.

background

Jean Genet had already written a screenplay for the actress Anouk Aimée in 1951 with the content of this story. He had given this script to the actress for the wedding. Marguerite Duras revised this script for Tony Richardson. Marlon Brando was originally intended for the role of the Italian woodcutter Manou . The film premiered at the Cannes Film Festival in 1966, but was booed by the audience.

Reviews

  • Peter W. Jansen in Jeanne Moreau (edited by Filmmuseum Berlin): "The walk, the eyes, the mouth: like under a magnifying glass, the insignia of her art are gathered in Mademoiselle. If Louis Malle may be called her real discoverer, because he was the first to understand the language of her body and to become the interpreter of her walk, (...) Tony Richardson has the merit of having captured her in her totality. "
  • Prisma Online: Jeanne Moreau can be seen here in one of her most exciting film roles as a teacher filled with shy malice and uptight lust; fascinating her almost wordless game, which becomes a simile, a nightmare of the human being. Tony Richardson's irritating drama based on a novel by Marguerite Duras captivates with the brilliant story, the excellent camera work, and the outstanding leading actress.

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