Mathilde - a great love
| Movie | |
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| German title | Mathilde - a great love |
| Original title | A long dimanche de fiançailles |
| Country of production | France |
| original language | French |
| Publishing year | 2004 (Germany January 27, 2005) |
| length | 128 minutes |
| Age rating |
FSK 12 JMK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Jean-Pierre Jeunet |
| script | Jean-Pierre Jeunet, Guillaume Laurant |
| production |
Francis Boespflug , Bill Gerber , Jean-Louis Monthieux |
| music | Angelo Badalamenti |
| camera | Bruno Delbonnel |
| cut | Hervé Schneid |
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Mathilde - A great love (original title Un long dimanche de fiançailles ) is a French film drama from 2004 , which takes place during the First World War . Directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet , who was also involved in the script. The main role is played by Audrey Tautou . The film is based on the novel The Mimosa of Hossegor from 1991 by Sébastien Japrisot .
action
Shortly after the end of World War I, Mathilde, who suffered from polio as a child and has only been able to walk with fixation splints since then , learns that her fiancé Manech was one of five soldiers who were sentenced to death for alleged self-mutilation.
Instead of executing the condemned directly, they were banished to the no man's land between the fronts that had been bogged down in the Franco-German trench war , where they could neither flee nor find shelter and food. During the following night some obscure things happened that Mathilde is now trying to understand. Although she later found Manech's supposed grave in a military cemetery, no one can testify that he really died that night. So Mathilde draws hope of finding her fiancé again and sets off on a trip to Paris.
She hires a detective and looks for people who fought on the same section of the front with the strange name Bingo Crépuscule ( Bingo Twilight ) as Manech. Despite further stories and references to the death of the five soldiers, she does not allow herself to be discouraged. In addition, there is a series of murders that are obviously related to the conviction of the soldiers. Another woman wages a campaign of revenge against the soldiers who hold her responsible for the death of her loved one. The avenger will eventually be found, sentenced and executed.
For the time being, evidence of Manech's death still predominates. Several people testify that he was shot dead by a German plane. But his body could not be found.
When Mathilde finds a survivor of the five exiles, the hope that her lover did survive is rekindled. This survivor had exchanged his own and Manech's identification tags for those of two fallen soldiers and had brought the wounded comrade from the battlefield to a hospital that had been temporarily set up in a hangar under a hydrogen-filled airship . The airship exploded in a bombing raid. It seemed impossible that those trapped in the hall could survive. But Manech was already on a train that had left the hospital shortly before the explosion.
Finally Mathilde learns that Manech is actually still alive. The grenade shock that led to the conviction and the ensuing events caused him amnesia . He even had to learn to read and write again. Mathilde finally finds her lover in the house of the mother of the fallen man, who has since been killed in a traffic accident, from whom Manech received the identification tag and who took him out of the sanatorium and took him in as her son.
When Mathilde Manech sees her again, he does not recognize her, but receives her in a friendly manner and seems happy, which also makes Mathilde happy, so that in the end she has come as close as possible to the goal of her aspirations, given the circumstances.
backgrounds
- The film was categorized as an American film by a French court because it was largely American-funded. As a result , he was not admitted to many European award ceremonies and festivals (e.g. Cannes Film Festival ).
- Jodie Foster can be seen in a supporting role , who speaks her dialogue in the original version (she speaks fluent French ).
Reviews
“The story, told as a postmodern collage, brilliantly leads different storylines next to and into one another, with times, places and narrative perspectives constantly changing. A captivating film of exuberant visual and narrative fantasy. "
“The most uncomfortable thing about it is the comfort that comes with looking at it. The war penetrates such a world not as a shock, but as a spectacle that reassuringly transfers the narrator's voice to the purring register. "
“It is only thanks to Audrey Tautous that we allow ourselves to be carried over the very thin sections of the script. It is not nice that the film aims to do exactly that. He has to let his star save him. You cry, but you regret it a little. "
Awards
- American Society of Cinematographers Award 2004 for Bruno Delbonnel
- César 2005 in the categories Meilleure photographie , Meilleurs costumes , Meilleurs décors , Meilleur second rôle féminin (for Marion Cotillard ) and Meilleur jeune espoir masculin and nominations in seven other categories
- Nomination for the Golden Globe 2005 for best foreign film
- Nomination for two Oscars 2005 ( Best Achievement in Cinematography and Best Achievement in Art Direction )
- European Film Award 2005 in the category Best Production Design, nominations in four other categories
- "Particularly valuable" rating awarded by the German Film and Media Assessment FBW in Wiesbaden
Artistic characterization
Like The fabulous world of Amélie , Jeunet's previous film, Mathilde - A Great Love received a lot of praise from international film critics. The film is considered to be one of the most successful themes of the First World War, especially the Franco-German positional war. Reviews generally highlight the great visual power and attention to detail of the cinematic design. As in other Jeunet films, characters, some of which seem grotesque, and their stories are put together to create a narrative, the red thread of which in this case is Mathilde's search for her fiancé Manech. The artistic means include the constant change of perspective on the fate of those five soldiers, frequent flashbacks and jumps in the timeline, images and motifs of high poetic power and a recurring humor in the representation of the characters and their peculiarities.
literature
- Sébastien Japrisot : The Mimosa of Hossegor. Novel. (Original title Un long dimanche de fiançailles ). German by Christiane Landgrebe . Aufbau-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Berlin 1998, ISBN 3-7466-1407-4 .
- Sébastien Japrisot: Mathilde - a great love. Novel. (Original title Un long dimanche de fiançailles ). German by Christiane Landgrebe. Aufbau-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-7466-2117-8 .
- Achim Lück, Jean-Pierre Jeunet: Mathilde - a great love. Worksheets. A. Lück, Berlin 2005, OCLC 637568238 . (Worksheets for the film)
Web links
- Mathilde - A great love in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Mathilde - A great love at Rotten Tomatoes (English)
- Mathilde - A great love at Metacritic (English)
- Mathilde - a great love in the online film database
- Mathilde - a great love in the German dubbing file
- Report: "Mathilde - a great love": Mimosa in steel thunderstorms. in: Der Spiegel . dated September 8, 2005.
Individual evidence
- ^ A b Mathilde - A great love in the lexicon of international films
- ^ Certificate of release for Mathilde - a great love . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , December 2004 (PDF; test number: 100 962 K).
- ↑ Age rating for Mathilde - a great love . Youth Media Commission .
- ↑ France can be so sweet by Peter Körte on faz.de from January 26, 2005
- ↑ Ekkehard Knörer: Good room, trenches. on: taz.de , January 26, 2005.
- ^ Renoir's field hospital. In: The time. No. 5, 2005.
- ↑ 19th Annual ASC Awards - 2004 → Theatrical Release ( Memento of the original from June 24, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on theasc.com, accessed September 7, 2014.
- ^ Marion Cotillard in Hamburger Abendblatt . dated February 26, 2008.
- ↑ Best foreign film on quotenmeter.de, accessed on September 7, 2014.
- ↑ Mathilde - A great love. ( Memento of the original from September 7, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on arte.tv, accessed on September 7, 2014.
- ↑ Details on Mathilde - A great love. at programm.ard.de, accessed on September 7, 2014.
- ↑ Mathilde - A great love. at fbw-filmbeval.com, accessed September 7, 2014.
- ↑ Dieter Wunderlich : Mathilde. A great love. on dieterwunderlich.de, accessed on September 7, 2014. (detailed review)
