Mademoiselle Chambon

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Movie
German title Mademoiselle Chambon
Original title Mademoiselle Chambon
Country of production France
original language French
Publishing year 2009
length 116 minutes
Age rating FSK 0
Rod
Director Stéphane Brizé
script Stéphane Brizé
Florence Vignon
production Milena Poylo
Gilles Sacuto
music Ange Ghinozzi
camera Antoine Héberlé
cut Anne Klotz
occupation

Mademoiselle Chambon is a French love drama directed by Stéphane Brizé from 2009 . It is loosely based on the eponymous novel by Eric Holder .

Mademoiselle Chambon, played by Sandrine Kiberlain , is the assistant teacher of Jérémy, son of the mason Jean ( Vincent Lindon ). His orderly everyday life gets mixed up when he reports on his job at school and tender feelings develop between him and the teacher.

action

Assembly line worker Anne-Marie and bricklayer Jean have a young son, Jérémy. When Anne-Marie is on sick leave because of back problems, Jean picks up his son from school. This is how he met his new teacher, Véronique Chambon, who was teaching for a year on a temporary basis in the school in the small town in the south of France. Jean and Véronique now see each other several times after the school day is over, and one day she asks him if he doesn't want to tell the class about his job next Saturday. Jean reluctantly agrees. At the weekend he knows how to interest the children in his work, and Véronique is also fascinated by the way he talks about his work. At the end of the lesson, she asked him for advice about a leaky window. He looks at the window on site, determines that it needs to be completely replaced, and receives the order from her. When he's finished, he wants to let her know, but she fell asleep. He looks around her apartment and discovers a photo of her with a violin. When she wakes up again, she plays a piece for him at his request, and he is fascinated. He sees her again later when she wants to buy paint for the window frames. He advises her and follows her to her apartment. She lends him a few CDs of the piece she played for him. While listening to another piece that Véronique really likes, they both finally kiss and hug until the music stops.

A few days later, Véronique finds a note from Jean on which he writes that he is thinking of her. Shortly afterwards, Jean learns from his wife that she is pregnant. When Véronique visits Jean on his construction site, he now keeps his distance. She tells him that she has the prospect of being permanently employed at Jérémy's school and that she intends to settle in town. Jean then replies that his wife is expecting a child, which freezes Véronique and causes her to leave. At home, Jean reacts irritably, at work uncontrolled and erratic. He calls Véronique later and tells her on her answering machine that he is sorry. Although Jean knows that Véronique is at home, she does not answer the phone.

Everyday life goes on, and at the end of the school year, Véronique cancels the permanent position. A few days before her departure, Jean brings her back the CDs he had borrowed and invites her to play the violin at his father's birthday party in a few days' time. She hesitates and questions his request, but finally comes. At the party she plays a soulful piece, and Anne-Marie suspects from Jean's reaction that both have feelings for one another. Jean drives Véronique home, but first shows her his favorite spot, where you have a wide view into the distance. He learns that she will be leaving the next morning. She waits for him at the door of her apartment and they end up sleeping together. He promises to come with her. The next day she waits for him at the train station. Jean has actually packed his bag and enters the station with it, but remains motionless on the stairs to the platform until the train has left. Then he returns to his family and sits in silence with his wife at the table. Her gaze falls on the travel bag, but she starts a conversation with him as if nothing had happened.

production

Director Stéphane Brizé during the DVD presentation of Mademoiselle Chambon 2010 in Paris

Mademoiselle Chambon was filmed in Marseille and Pertuis . It was created in Cinemascope because, according to the director Brizé, this image format gives the film depth and "the simple plot an 'epic' dimension". The film opened in French and Belgian cinemas on October 14, 2009 and was also shown in German cinemas from August 12, 2010. Mademoiselle Chambon first showed the first on October 2, 2011 on German television. The film was released on DVD in Germany in February 2011; French DVD premiere was on February 24, 2010.

backgrounds

The closing credits are the song Quel joli temps by Barbara . The melody that Véronique Jean plays on the violin in her apartment is La Valse Triste by Franz von Vecsey ; the piece at the birthday party is Salut d'Amour by Edward Elgar . Sandrine Kiberlain learned to play the violin for five months for the film, even if the actual recording was made afterwards.

Vincent Lindon and Sandrine Kiberlain have been married since 1998, but were already separated at the time of filming. “The film is essentially a slow motion of this liaison running in the opposite direction, a relationship therapy in the rear-view mirror,” said the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung in its review of the film.

criticism

Die Zeit called the plot nothing new and the film itself "not even staged spectacularly." However, Mademoiselle Chambon is "the most beautiful classic theater cinema". For the film service ,too, Mademoiselle Chambon was a “simple story, straight and unadorned”. The film is “the anti- 'amour fou ' film par excellence. He avoids any stormy, loud emotional chaos and instead devotes himself extensively to the tacit understanding in love, the unspoken and the inexact. "

kino-zeit.de described Mademoiselle Chambon as a "film about hesitation, careful touching, about restraint and possibly also fear", while the Frankfurter Rundschau found that the film is about "what happens when someone loves twice."

Awards

Mademoiselle Chambon won a César in 2010 for “Best Adapted Screenplay” (Stéphane Brizé, Florence Vignon). Sandrine Kiberlain was also nominated for a César in the “Best Actress” category, while Aure Atika received a César nomination for “Best Supporting Actress” . At the International Istanbul Film Festival , the film won a FIPRESCI Prize and the Special Jury Prize.

At the Independent Spirit Awards in 2011 the film was nominated for an Independent Spirit Award for “Best Foreign Film”.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Certificate of Release for Mademoiselle Chambon . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , August 2010 (PDF; test number: 123 835 K).
  2. ↑ See press kit for the film (PDF; 122 kB), p. 4.
  3. ↑ See press kit for the film (PDF; 122 kB), p. 8.
  4. ↑ Michael Althen: Love in reverse: "Mademoiselle Chambon" . faz.net, August 11, 2010.
  5. ↑ Anke Leweke: Love! . zeit.de, August 12, 2010.
  6. ↑ Mademoiselle Chambon . In: film-dienst , No. 16, 2010.
  7. ^ Rochus Wolff: Mademoiselle Chambon . kino-zeit.de, accessed on August 25, 2013.
  8. ↑ Daniel Kothenschulte: When men love too much . In: Frankfurter Rundschau , August 11, 2010.