Mom is at the hairdresser's for a moment

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Movie
German title Mom is at the hairdresser's for a moment
Original title Maman est chez le coiffeur
Country of production Canada
original language French
Publishing year 2008
length 95 minutes
Age rating FSK 6
Rod
Director Léa pool
script Isabelle Hébert
production Lyse Lafontaine ,
Michael Mosca
music Laurent Eyquem
camera Daniel Jobin
cut Dominique Fortin
occupation

Maman is short at the hairdresser (original title: Maman est chez le coiffeur , alternative title: Mama is at the hairdresser ) is a Canadian television film from 2008, which combines elements of drama and comedy. Léa Pool directed and Isabelle Hébert wrote the script. The film shows how the disclosure of the homosexuality of a father of three tragically changed family life.

action

Québec in 1966: The siblings Élise, Coco and Benoît spend the summer holidays at home. The mother informs Élise, the eldest of the three, that she should go to boarding school in the fall, which Élise displeases very much. Élise, finally notices her father's strange behavior towards his golf partner. When she surprises him on a phone call, he sends her away. She gives her mother the receiver of a second phone, whereupon she recognizes the love affair and gives Élise a slap in the face.

The mother is horrified and no longer willing to go on with family life as usual. She asks for a transfer to London to escape the unfaithful husband. She eventually leaves the family without further comment. In doing so, she overlooks how much the youngest son Benoît, but also the other children, need her. In Benoîts ideal world a sudden hole is torn, reinforcing behavior that suggests a mental disorder. He wets, destroys his toys and sets the garage on fire.

Élise tries to absorb the care of Benoîts a little by taking on the protective role that her mother previously played. First she blames herself that her mother is gone. When she meets other children, she realizes that they too are struggling with serious problems. In the deaf and mute Mouche, who shows her fishing, she finds someone with a warm heart, where she can escape her world.

When other neighbors ask about their mother, the children answer that she is at the hairdresser's for a moment. The father wants to look for a nanny, which Élise does not like. He also takes Benoît to a specialist to have him examined. The result says that Benoît has behavioral problems and is highly gifted. In the end, Benoît should go to boarding school. However, Élise gets him out of the car when he leaves and they run into an adjacent corn field.

background

The film was shot in the Canadian city of Belœil .

The alternative German title is Mama is at the hairdresser's .

Reviews

“Director Léa Pool […] tells from the children's point of view and free of any sentimentality with a lightness that not only makes the topic bearable, but even spreads optimism. Thanks to the excellent actors, the loving equipment and the perfect soundtrack, a coherent piece of time is created about childhood nostalgia, painful growing up and the most fragile family happiness. Conclusion »Wistful, truthful and very touching« "

- TV feature film

"A family drama that knows how to tear apart the ideal world of the sixties - with a lot of contemporary coloring and light-footed irony compared to the dusty conventions of that time."

- Doris Senn, film bulletin

“Actually there is nothing wrong with it, on the contrary, even the young actors who wear the film at the same time are convincing across the board. There are two types of child actors. Some act, others are simply themselves. Here you meet the latter. They are fresh and have no inhibitions about letting their feelings run free. […] Most impressive, however, is Hugo St-Onge-Paquin as the smallest of the family […] It is astonishing how realistically the little one conveys this extensive range of emotions. [...] The pictures that cameraman Daniel Jobin captures here are of poetic beauty and sometimes hide the serious undertone of the film. Laurent Eyquem's award-winning music is wonderful too. It is full of drama and gives the film an undreamt-of depth. There is a strange sensitivity and emotionality in all aspects. […] CONCLUSION: A great film in a small guise. Great actors and a calm and thoughtful production. "

- Johannes Scholten

“ Mom is at the hairdresser's for a moment, is nostalgia for the 60s captured on celluloid with the right soundtrack, sunny colors, costumes and backdrops. […] Little by little […] the film builds up a more serious, tragic tone that is broken up again and again by humorous and strange moments. The fact that the story is told through the eyes of a young person neglects the problems of adults to a large extent. The viewer hardly learns anything about the outcome of the father's homosexual love affair and only superficially learns about his true struggle as a single parent. The focus is much more on the children's experience "

- Martin Wolkner

“The choice of songs that accompany the film turned out to be appropriate, but unfortunately the piano skirmish of the score is slightly annoying. Also, not all subplots work: The friendship between Elise and the deaf-mute, curious fly fisherman with a big heart reaches a little too deep into the cliché box and has little influence on the history or the development of Elise. "

- www.outnow.ch

Awards

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The release certificate for Maman is briefly at the hairdresser's . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , September 2010 (PDF; test number: 124 258 V).
  2. ↑ IMDb locations
  3. ↑ Maman is briefly at the hairdresser's in the online film database
  4. ↑ http://www.tvspielfilm.de/kino/filmarchiv/film/mama-ist-kurz-beim-friseur,4250686,ApplicationMovie.html
  5. ↑ a b Mama is at the hairdresser at www.identities.at
  6. ↑ http://theamblinreviewer.wordpress.com/2011/08/16/maman-ist-kurz-beim-frisor/
  7. ↑ http://www.cineclub.de/filmarchiv/2008/maman-ist-kurz-beim-friseur.html
  8. ↑ http://outnow.ch/Movies/2008/MamanEstChezLeCoiffeur/Reviews/kino/
  9. ↑ IMDb Awards