Mammoth
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Mammoth |
| Original title | Mammoth |
| Country of production | France |
| original language | French |
| Publishing year | 2010 |
| length | 90 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director |
Benoît Delépine , Gustave Kervern |
| script | Benoît Delépine, Gustave Kervern |
| production |
Jean-Pierre Guerin , Véronique Marchat |
| music | Gaëtan Roussel |
| camera | Hugues Poulain |
| cut | Stéphane Elmadjian |
| occupation | |
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Mammuth is a French feature film from 2010 by the directors Benoît Delépine and Gustave Kervern .
action
The slaughterhouse worker Serge, who is retired at 60, is a silent or rather speechless mountain of a man with a blond mane and is called "Mammoth". For Serge, who has worked continuously since the age of 16, it is clearly difficult to be a pensioner: during the day he walks up and down the living room and counts the cars from the window. In the supermarket he doesn't know how to free a shopping cart from the chain and pulls it loose with force. He also shows his strength when the shopping cart does not want to fit between two cars.
He learns from the pension insurance that he will receive a low pension because ten former employers are missing the pension receipts. His wife Catherine, who works in the supermarket, demands that he get the missing receipts, which he only ever speaks of as papelards , because the two are financing their little house with three loans to have.
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Because her car has no windshield, he sets off on his motorcycle, a Münch Mammoth from 1973. As soon as he drives off and again and again during this trip, his first girlfriend appears to him, the "lost love" who once crashed with him on the motorcycle, played by Isabelle Adjani . Her face still shows the traces of the fatal accident and she is "still with him".
On his journey into the past, Serge meets old friends, colleagues, bosses and family members. Most thought he was mentally ill - and still do. He can find some of the required "slips of paper" with great effort, but he often has to find out that his employers simply didn't register him at the time in order to save money and trouble.
However, in the course of this road movie, shot with extremely shaky and often intentionally blurred handheld camera technology, it soon becomes clear to Serge that his trip is about completely different things than his pension entitlement: he sees when he visits the former workplaces from 30-40 years ago Let his life go by once again: a cemetery where he was a gravedigger, a bar where he worked as a bouncer, a now dilapidated excursion restaurant, a mill where "3D storyboards" are now being produced and they don't understand what he is want.
In between he falls victim to a sex thief who plays the victim of a motorcycle accident as a simulator and thus softens his good-natured heart on several levels, and steals his money, his wife's cell phone and also the "notes". Her lipstick message for him the morning after is "I'm sorry, we won't get a pension". While searching for metal on the beach, he met another metal seeker several times, who mocked him for his haphazard search method, which, however, changed significantly in the further course.
He visits his brother Jean-Luc, with whom he fell out over a “stupid inheritance story”, he is not at home or has long since died, but his daughter, Serges niece Solange, who works as the artist Miss Ming, meets him differently than any human before. She is a little crazy, writes poetry at night and lives among all kinds of Art Brut sculptures made from dolls that she makes herself. Miss Ming values Serge as a loving person, she gives him new perspectives on her youthful world, and so getting the pension receipts gradually becomes a minor matter: Serge finds himself. In the end, he solves his financial problems by selling the antique motorcycle . He returns home to his wife, and in the final sequence he takes part in the central high school diploma in philosophy among loud kids, for which he writes a poem (a papel-art in Miss Ming's sense) about his life - and is the first to deliver.
criticism
"Social grotesque with a poetic touch, in which rough tones oscillate with shimmering impressions, which transforms the damage and ugliness of existence and defends the dignity of the protagonist."
“At the end of the film you almost want to go on a motorcycle tour through France yourself. Only this time with Yolande Moreau at the wheel and Gérard Depardieu in the assessor. Benoît Delépine and Gustave de Kervern did not make a great film with their mammoth, but they did make a great love couple! "
"" Mammoth "is a small film, shot in grainy images and told so calmly that wit and charm always stalk one another quietly instead of constantly jumping loudly in your face. Cautious might be the right word if it wasn't so screamingly funny in between and then again so infinitely melancholy. "
background
The film had its world premiere in the competition at the Berlinale 2010 , but was not awarded the prize. The film was released in French cinemas on April 21, 2010, and opened in Germany on September 16, 2010. The film is dedicated to Gérard Depardieu's deceased son Guillaume .
At the 2011 César Awards , Mammuth received three nominations (Best Film, Best Actor (Gérard Depardieu), Best Original Screenplay).
Web links
- Mammuth in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Mammuth at rotten tomatoes (English)
- Mammoth in the online film database
- Reviews of Mammuth at Moviepilot
Individual evidence
- ↑ Release certificate for Mammuth . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , August 2010 (PDF; test number: 123 894 K).
- ↑ Nicolas Grumel: "Mammuth": il entretient la Münch de Depardieu (+ video) . April 20, 2010 from motomag.com, accessed January 23, 2018
- ↑ Felicitas Kleiner: Mammuth - criticism . on filmdienst.de, accessed on January 23, 2018
- ↑ Felix von Boehm: Mammuth - criticism . On August 24, 2010 from critic.de, accessed on January 23, 2018
- ↑ Daniel Sander: Mourning dump turns on . On September 16, 2010 from spiegel.de, accessed on January 23, 2018