Marius and Jeannette - A love in Marseille
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Marius and Jeannette - A love in Marseille |
| Original title | Marius and Jeannette |
| Country of production | France |
| original language | French |
| Publishing year | 1997 |
| length | 102 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 0 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Robert Guédiguian |
| script | Robert Guédiguian, Jean-Louis Milesi |
| production | Robert Guédiguian, Gilles Sandoz |
| music |
Jacques Menichetti , Jean-Louis Milesi |
| camera | Bernard Cavalié |
| cut | Bernard Sasia |
| occupation | |
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Marius and Jeannette - A Love in Marseille is a French romance film directed by Robert Guédiguian in 1997 .
action
Jeannette is widowed and has two children. Young Malek goes to school while Magali is already grown up and studying. The family lives in simple circumstances in the Marseille harbor district L'Estaque . The neighbors in the court community include the constantly arguing couple Dédé and Monique, the communist Caroline, who was in a concentration camp, and the retired teacher Justin. Jeannette works as a cashier in a supermarket, but has constant difficulties because she always speaks her mind openly. She doesn't earn much, so one day she tries to steal two buckets of paint on the premises of an abandoned cement factory in order to repaint her small apartment. She is caught by the limping Marius, who works as a security guard on the premises. Marius lets them go after looking at their identification papers. The next day he stands in front of her door and has brought her the two paint buckets.
Jeannette is fired from her job. She goes to the cement factory and stands on a tall building at the edge of the roof. Marius thinks she wants to kill herself, but Jeannette explains to him that as a child she stood on this roof and looked down at the factory. Her father was once a factory worker but was killed in an accident at work. Marius offers her to paint the apartment, but Jeannette refuses. Marius suspects it is because of his stiff leg and suggests a race that he wins in the end. In reality, Marius is not limping. He resorted to the trick at the interview for the job because he was hired out of pity.
In the near future, Marius appears more often at Jeannette's and they both paint the apartment. He gets to know Malek and Magali, who come from two different fathers. One left Jeannette without saying goodbye, the other died in an accident. While Malek begins to grapple with his being a Muslim, with his teacher Justin helping him, Magali is thinking of leaving Marseille and studying journalism in Paris. Jeannette would not like to let her go, the bond between her and the children is too close. Over time, the children accept Marius as part of the family and the neighbors, with whom Jeannette is friends, also like him. Jeannette goes out to eat with Marius and to the beach and he regularly shows up for breakfast.
One day, however, Marius stays away from the settlement. The simple-thinking Dédé immediately suspects that he has left Jeannette. Jeannette, on the other hand, does not find the strength to talk to Marius after two disappointed relationships. She sees him walking around the factory premises drinking beer, even if Marius never drank alcohol before. She is disappointed. Dédé and Justin visit Marius one evening, but he sleeps off his intoxication completely drunk. Both drink too much too and end up in a pub where they start a fight. Later the three of them lie at the harbor and Marius, drunk, tells them why he stayed away: He was once married and had two small children. He and his wife were at a party and drove home drunk. His wife was behind the wheel and caused a car accident. She died with the children. Malek and Magali constantly remind him of his own two children, which he can no longer stand. Dédé and Justin bring the sleeping Marius into the settlement and place him on the sleeping Jeannette. Then they bawl drunk how much they love Caroline (Justin) and Monique (Dédé). Marius wakes up in the arms of Jeannette and she, who has previously learned of his past from the two neighbors, asks him never to leave her and to love her children like his own. Both find their way back together.
production
Marius and Jeannette - A Love in Marseille was filmed on location in L'Estaque, Marseille. It was the seventh film by director Robert Guédiguian that his wife Ariane Ascaride played in the lead role. Gérard Meylan, Jean-Pierre Darroussin, Jacques Boudet and Pierre Banderet had already worked with Guédiguian several times and knew him from the time he was working at the theater.
The film premiered in May 1997 as part of the Un Certain Regard series at the Cannes International Film Festival and was shown in French cinemas on November 19, 1997. From January 29, 1998 the film was also shown in German cinemas.
synchronization
Synchronous Directed resulted January Harloff , who is also the dialogue book wrote.
| role | actor | Voice actor |
|---|---|---|
| Jeannette | Ariane Ascaride | Marion Martienzen |
| Marius | Gerard Meylan | Peter Buchholz |
| Caroline | Pascale Roberts | Brita Subklew |
| Justin | Jacques Boudet | Edgar Hoppe |
| Monique | Frédérique Bonnal | Heidi Schaffrath |
| Dédé | Jean-Pierre Darroussin | Hartmut Rüting |
criticism
For the filmdienst had Marius and Jeannette - A Love in Marseille one. "Convincing balance between the realistic representation of the living conditions in the working-class neighborhood, ironically fractured political discourse and an almost operetta-like stylization of neighborly relations as well as the narrated with ease love story" Even if the formal means of the film are partly simple, they hardly affect the positive overall impression. Cinema , which accused the film of profanity , saw it differently . The film is poor in action and the love story "tingles only cautiously". The bad German synchronization, which seems sterile and stilted, was also criticized. Der Spiegel called Marius and Jeannette an "almost naive, but wonderfully optimistic film".
Awards
Robert Guédiguian won the Prix Louis Delluc for Marius and Jeannette in 1997 . In 1998, the film was awarded a César in the category Best Actress (Ariane Ascaride). He received another six César nominations: in the categories of Best Film , Best Director (Robert Guédiguian), Best Supporting Actor (Jean-Pierre Darroussin), Best Supporting Actress (Pascale Roberts), Best Young Actress (Laetitia Pesenti) and Best Screenplay (Robert Guédiguian and Jean-Louis Milesi). In 1998 Guédiguian won the Prix Lumières in the Best Film category .
In 1999 Guédiguian received a Goya nomination for Best European Film. At the Premi Sant Jordi de Cinematografia, Ariane Ascaride was named Best Foreign Actress.
Web links
- Marius and Jeannette - A Love in Marseille in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ See Marius and Jeannette on arte.tv ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ See festival-cannes.fr
- ↑ Name of the voice actors in the end credits of the film.
- ^ Marius and Jeannette - A love in Marseille. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ↑ See cinema.de
- ^ Premieres: Marius and Jeannette - A love in Marseille . In: KulturSpiegel , No. 2, 1998. p. 43.
