The price of temptation

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Movie
German title The price of temptation
Original title Mademoiselle de Joncquières
Country of production France
original language French
Publishing year 2018
length 109 minutes
Rod
Director Emmanuel Mouret
script Emmanuel Mouret
production Frédéric Niedermayer
camera Laurent Desmet
cut Martial Salomon
occupation
synchronization

The price of temptation (original title: Mademoiselle de Joncquières ) is a French historical film by Emmanuel Mouret from 2018 with Cécile de France and Édouard Baer in the leading roles. An episode from the novel Jacques the Fatalist and His Lord by Denis Diderot served as a literary model .

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France in the 18th century: The widowed Madame de la Pommeraye has the Marquis des Arcis as a guest on her manorial country house. The Marquis, who is widely known for his countless love affairs, is determined to win Madame de la Pommeraye for himself. This is indifferent to love. At best, she only liked her late husband until the wedding and only believed in friendship. However, the Marquis remains persistent and does not want to leave until he has reached his destination, even if he has to neglect his business. After several months of spending time together, Madame de la Pommeraye begins to believe that the Marquis has changed and that she has real feelings for her, and, despite warnings from her close friend, finally lets herself in with him.

After two years of happy togetherness, the Marquis is increasingly drawn to his construction business in Paris . Madame de la Pommeraye feels increasingly neglected and confesses to her friend that her distrust of the Marquis was probably justified. In order to find out whether the Marquis has actually lost interest in her and is already looking around for other women, she pretends that her love for him has vanished and finally wrests him from admitting that he no longer loves her.

Deeply hurt, Madame de la Pommeraye decides to take revenge on the Marquis and punish him for his disloyalty. For this purpose she receives Madame de Joncquières, who has been shaken by fate, and her lovely young daughter. As the illegitimate daughter of a baron, Madame de Joncquières was once barred from taking up a position. She allowed herself to be seduced by a duke, became pregnant, impoverished and ended up with her daughter in a brothel, where both of them now have to earn their meager living as prostitutes. In order to put her plan into practice, Madame de la Pommeraye first found decent accommodation for the mother and daughter. During a walk with the Marquis in the royal gardens, she makes sure that they run into Madame de Joncquières and her daughter. The Marquis is immediately fascinated by the innocent charm of Mademoiselle de Joncquières. Because he can no longer sleep out of sheer longing for a reunion and cannot find comfort in courtesans, he asks Madame de la Pommeraye for support.

Her friend is concerned about the looming and in her eyes unchristian intrigue against the Marquis. However, Madame de la Pommeraye is determined to continue with her campaign of revenge. She wanted justice, also in the name of the female sex. After letting the Marquis fidget for a while, she arranges a dinner with Madame and Mademoiselle de Joncquières, to which the Marquis also appears. His desire then flares up all the more for the young woman, who, like her mother, shows herself to be particularly pious and reserved at Madame de la Pommeraye's instructions. The Marquis, who secretly had a portrait made of her, kept waiting for her and her mother in front of the mass in the hope of getting to know her better - without success. In order to win her over, he gives her and her mother an annual pension of 600 louis and valuable jewelry, which the two women refuse to accept at Madame de la Pommeraye's behest. In desperation, he makes them increasingly generous offers and is even ready to give them half of his fortune. Driven by her thirst for revenge, Madame de la Pommeraye remains relentless even at the pleadings of Madame de Joncquières and thus drives the Marquis to the decision to marry the penniless girl and thereby jeopardize his reputation.

Mademoiselle de Joncquières, who secretly suffers from betraying the Marquis and feels deeply guilty, finally marries the Marquis. When he asked why she wasn't getting married, Madame de la Pommeraye confessed that he was the only man she would have considered for it. She then drives with him, his bride and her mother in a carriage to the brothel where the two penniless women worked as prostitutes to give him their wedding present. When the Marquis realizes that he has married a prostitute, Madame de la Pommeraye enjoys her triumph. He had married the woman who was worthy of him and all Paris would know about it. When the compromised and disaffected Marquis, who rejected his young wife, returned to his Parisian residence in the evening, he was forced to take her back after attempting suicide - she wanted to drown herself in the Seine . Her genuine humility leads him to forgive her and move with her to the country until the scandal is forgotten. On their departure, they meet Madame de la Pommeraye's friend. She should tell him that he was grateful to her. Without their intrigue he would never have met his wife. On the deliberately false report of her friend that she found the Marquis alone on his departure, Madame de la Pommeraye displays a mock satisfaction.

background

The film is based on the Pommeraye episode of the Diderot novel Jacques the Fatalist and his Lord , translated into German by Friedrich Schiller under the title Strange Example of Female Vengeance (1785) and already by Robert Bresson as Die Damen vom Bois de Boulogne (1945) was filmed. For his adaptation from 2018, the director and screenwriter Emmanuel Mouret added the plot to the friend of Madame de la Pommeraye, played by Laure Calamy , who does not appear in Diderot and who Mouret consciously uses as the voice of reason in the film.

Château de Sourches
The parks of Marly-le-Roi, another location for the film

The shooting took place in August and September 2017. One of the locations was the Château de Sourches in Saint-Symphorien in the Sarthe department , which can be seen in the film with its extensive park as Madame de la Pommeraye's residence and where the interior shots of the Marquis's residence were also taken. The scenes in the king's parks were filmed in Marly-le-Roi in the Yvelines department . Further recordings were made in front of the Saint-Maclou Cathedral in Pontoise in the Val-d'Oise department and in the historic parts of the Val-de-Grâce building complex in Paris. David Faivre was responsible for the production design. The costumes were designed by Pierre-Jean Larroque , who had already taken part in several historical films and for his work with Mouret, Faivre and cinematographer Laurent Desmet put on clean lines to the vitality and optimism of Diderot's time, the age of enlightenment to illustrate, .

The Temptation Award premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival on September 7, 2018, and hit French and Belgian cinemas on September 12, 2018. In France, around 547,400 viewers saw the film, which had a budget of five million euros. In Germany, as in the United States and the Netherlands, the film was shown for the first time on March 8, 2019 as video-on-demand on Netflix .

Film music

Except for a piano piece composed by Giovanni Mirabassi for the film under the title Mademoiselle de Joncquières , which can be heard at the end of the credits, only compositions from the 18th and 19th centuries were used for the musical accompaniment of the film:

Reviews

"The director stages an enjoyable war between the sexes in a magnificent setting and with a sense of sobriety and elegance," said Le Journal du Dimanche . Le Monde praised the straightforwardness of the film, the good performance, its clear drawing of figures and their development. The Age of Enlightenment offers not only "the most beautiful scenery", but also "a language full of subtleties" that the actors would revive "in all their charm". The real “beauty of the film”, however, is based on the “fact that it is equally benevolent towards all of its characters” and is “curious about their contradictions, but never tough towards them”, so that Madame de la Pommeraye “not” in her revenge acting solely selfishly, but in the name of the female sex ”,“ to punish and educate the male sex ”, and this vengeance should rather be understood as“ a gesture of love ”. L'Express wrote that it was "lucky that French cinema continues to produce this type of film". The film, which is reminiscent of the screen adaptations of dangerous love affairs, is "pleasant to the ear, but too sweet at the end" to be really exciting due to its beautifully presented dialogues. According to Le Figaro , the film “fortunately” could show Cécile de France, whose charm was “radiant”.

Cécile de France (2018)

For the film service , The Price of Temptation was a “light-footed Rococo costume drama with polished dialogues”. The focus, however, is less on a moral image of the 18th century than on "the pleasure in the intrigue played by two brilliant main actors". Film-rezensions.de compared the historical drama with the plot of Love & Friendship , in which "the focus is also a lovely lady from a good family who is sharpening her knives and spinning intrigues in the background". However, the price of temptation does not have “the nimble meanness” of the Jane Austen film adaptation and instead offers the viewer “an atmospheric glimpse into the French landed gentry, whose immaculate facade hides emotional abysses”. Cécile de France “outshines” the events and the other actors and one can still muster “pity or at least understanding” for her “manipulative” Madame de la Pommeraye compared to the “naive-innocent” Mademoiselle de Joncquières. The film is certainly not a “crowd pleaser” for the Netflix audience, especially since “there [...] only little plot [is]”. Nevertheless, he is "worth seeing not least because of a wonderfully devious Cécile de France". "The beautiful equipment" could also convince.

According to the New York Times , the director directs the audience's sympathies "effortlessly", while the plot zigzags towards "its ultimately surprising and quite satisfactory solution". The Los Angeles Times recommended anyone who liked the subject of Dangerous Liaisons to watch Emmanuel Mouret's costume film with its "similarly malicious sense of amusing melodramas." Overall, the film is staged too shallowly, which is detrimental to the emotional depth, but it still offers a lot of entertainment "thanks to its snappy repartee and stunning backdrops", which make the actors "often look like figures in elaborate dollhouses".

For Variety , The Price of Temptation was a “cleverly designed costume drama”, which “like a clever Casanova” in its persistently charming advertising only slowly reveals its true intentions “as a skilfully choreographed round of intrigue, seduction and revenge in the style of dangerous love affairs” . The result was an “exquisitely assembled and beautifully photographed film” that was initially staged “leisurely”, peppered with “extremely clever bon mots ” and, with its later serious undertones, was “all the more entertaining”. He holds a few surprises up to his "very satisfactory resolution" ready, which makes the performance of the actors all the more amazing. Cécile de France and Édouard Baer are "perfectly coordinated" as the main actors. Alice Isaaz is "painfully believable in her emotional honesty", while Laure Calamy offers an "unobtrusive portrait" as Madame de la Pommeraye's confidante, who is kind to her friend, but at the same time is slightly shocked by her lack of judgment.

Awards

The film was in the running for the prize in the "Platform" section at the 2018 Toronto International Film Festival. In the same year he was nominated for the Louis Delluc Prize . At the César 2019 awards ceremony , The Temptation Award was nominated in the six categories of Best Adapted Screenplay , Best Lead Actress (Cécile de France), Best Lead Actor (Édouard Baer), Best Cinematography , Best Costumes and Best Production Design. In the end, Pierre-Jean Larroque's costumes were awarded the César .

The film was also nominated for the Globe de Cristal in 2019, for which de France also received a nomination in the Best Actress category. At the award ceremony of the Prix ​​Lumières , the film was nominated in the categories of Best Film , Best Screenplay , Best Actress (Cécile de France) and Best Cinematography. In the Best Leading Actress category , de France also received a nomination for the Belgian Magritte Film Prize , but went away empty-handed.

German version

The German dubbed version was based on the dialogue book by Marion Machado Quintela , who also directed the dialogue.

role actor Voice actor
Madame de la Pommeraye Cecile de France Tanja Geke
Marquis des Arcis Edouard Baer Patrick Winczewski
Mademoiselle de Joncquières Alice Isaaz Lina Rabea Mohr
Madame de Joncquières Natalia Dontcheva Victoria Storm
Friend of the madame Laure Calamy Uschi Hugo
courtesan Manon Kneusé Marieke Oeffinger
Servant of the Madame Arnaud Dupont Sascha Gluth
Nobles Gabrielle Atger Sabine Winterfeldt
Nobleman Jean-Michel Lahmi Bernhard Völger
Maid of the Marquis Emilie Aubertot Denise Kanty

Web links

Individual evidence

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  2. ↑ See Cécile de France, Edouard Baer… Tourné dans la Sarthe, le film Mademoiselle de Joncquières au cinéma ce mercredi on actu.fr, 11 September 2018.
  3. ↑ See Leur château a servi de décor pour un film d'époque . In: Ouest-France , August 20, 2018.
  4. ↑ Thomas Richardson: Le domaine de Marly fermé ce vendredi pour tournage de film on actu.fr, 4 August 2017.
  5. ^ Joseph Canu: Édouard Baer, ​​Cécile de France et Alice Isaaz en tournage à Pontoise on actu.fr, 22 September 2017.
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  8. ↑ “Dans des décors somptueux et avec un sens du cadre aussi sobre qu'élégant, le réalisateur orchester une guerre des sexes jubilatoire.” Barbara Théate: Cécile de France and Edouard Baer badinent avec l'amour dans “Mademoiselle de Joncquières” . In: Le Journal du Dimanche , September 12, 2018.
  9. ↑ “Le siècle des Lumières offre à cela le plus bel écrin qui soit, celui de sa langue, dont les comédiens restituent tout le charme. Une langue empreinte de mille subtilités […]. La beauté du film tient au contraire à ce qu'il montre une égale bienveillance envers tous ses personnages, curieux de leurs contradictions, mais jamais sévère envers elles. […] Madame de La Pommeraye ne nourrit pas seulement une vengeance égoïste mais au nom du genre feminine, afin de punir et d'éduquer le genre masculin […]. Ainsi cette vengeance n'apparaît-elle pas autrement que comme un geste d'amour. " Mathieu Macheret: “Mademoiselle de Joncquières”: les jeux de l'amour et de la guerre . In: Le Monde , 11 September 2018.
  10. ↑ “Il est évidemment heureux que le cinéma français continue de produire ce type de films [… C] et entrelacs de phrases joliment dites. […] Le résultat est agréable à l'oreille mais finalement trop doucereux pour être passionnant. " Eric Libiot: Les films à voir de la semaine du 12 septembre . In: L'Express , September 12, 2018.
  11. ^ “Heureusement qu'il ya Cécile de France […]. Son charme est rayonnant. " Marie-Noëlle Tranchant: Mademoiselle de Joncquières: comment ils se sont disputés . In: Le Figaro , September 1, 2018.
  12. ↑ The Price of Temptation. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed June 9, 2020 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  13. ↑ Oliver Armknecht: The temptation price on film-rezensions.de, March 9, 2019.
  14. ↑ "Mouret manipulates our sympathies effortlessly as the story zigzags its way from there to its ultimately surprising and quite satisfying resolution." Helen T. Verongos: 'Lady J' Review: The Aristocratic Art of Getting Even . In: The New York Times , March 8, 2019.
  15. ^ " Lady J , a period romance with a similarly wicked sense of comic melodrama. […] Mouret keeps the overall tone too frothy […]. Lady J is still a lot of fun, though, thanks to its snappy repartee and stunning locations - often framed so the characters look like figurines in lavish dollhouses. ” Noel Murray: French drama 'Lady J,' alt-doc 'Woodsrider' and western redux 'The Glorious Seven' . In: Los Angeles Times , March 7, 2019.
  16. ↑ “Emmanuel Mouret's smartly crafted period drama […]. Like a crafty Casanova […] as a shrewdly choreographed roundelay of scheming, seduction and revenge in the spirit of Les Liaisons Dangereuses . […] Emmanuel Mouret's exquisitely mounted and beautifully photographed film begins as a leisurely paced dramedy of manners, brimming with archly clever bons mots [… T] he movie becomes all the more enjoyable […] builds to a richly satisfying conclusion […] de France and Baer are perfectly matched, […] while Isaaz is achingly credible in her emotional honesty […]. Laure Calamy's understated portrayal. " Joe Leydon: Film Review: 'Mademoiselle de Joncquieres' . In: Variety , September 27, 2018.
  17. ↑ The Price of Temptation. In: synchronkartei.de. German dubbing index , accessed on June 9, 2020 .