My time with Cézanne
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| German title | My time with Cézanne |
| Original title | Cezanne et moi |
| Country of production | France |
| original language | French |
| Publishing year | 2016 |
| length | 117 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 0 |
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| Director | Danièle Thompson |
| script | Danièle Thompson |
| production | Albert Koski |
| music | Eric Neveux |
| camera | Jean-Marie Dreujou |
| cut | Sylvie Landra |
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My time with Cézanne (original title Cézanne et moi ) is a biography by Danièle Thompson that was released in French cinemas on September 21, 2016 and in German cinemas on October 6, 2016. The film tells the story of the friendship between the writer Émile Zola and the French painter Paul Cézanne .
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Friends Paul Cézanne and Émile Zola already know each other from their school days together in Aix-en-Provence . Both are young, fearless and rebellious and now live in Paris . In search of recognition, both work like crazy: Paul Cézanne becomes a brilliant painter, Émile Zola a great writer, and they also share one or the other love affair. Despite all the work, they are slowly gaining recognition in their respective disciplines. Both long for their time in Provence , but they soon threaten to drift apart, because one has money, fame and a wife, while the other soon loses all of that. Their friendship will be put to a severe test.
Biographical background
The painter Paul Cézanne depicted in the film biography and the journalist and writer Émile Zola are among the best-known French and were still children when they met. The story of the film is based on the true friendship of the two.
Zola was born in Paris , but his father, François Zola, had applied to be a civil engineer in Aix-en-Provence and when they were accepted the family moved there when Émile Zola was three years old. Almost ten years later, in 1852, he met Jean-Baptist Baille and above all Paul Cézanne, who was born in Aix-en-Provence and introduced him to the graphic arts, especially painting, at the Collège Bourbon (today Lycée Mignet) . Zola made friends with them, and at the college they were referred to as the "lovebirds". In their free time they swam on the banks of the Arc , fished, read Homer and Virgil , practiced writing their own poems and debating art. While Cézanne saw poetry only as a pastime, he devoted himself to painting after passing his Baccalauréat exam in 1858. In April 1861, Cézanne moved to Paris, where he met Achille Emperaire , whom he already knew from Aix-en-Provence and also wanted to become a painter. The two became close friends. Marie-Hortense Fiquet , whom Cézanne met in 1869 at the Académie Suisse in Paris, became his lover, muse and later wife. Cézanne found particular support from the paint dealer Père Tanguy , who was initially the only contact for him in the foreign city. Tanguy supported young artists by supplying them with paint and canvas and receiving their paintings in return. Ambroise Vollard became his gallery owner, and Zola and the painter Pierre-Auguste Renoir also stayed with him. In November 1895, Vollard Cézanne's first solo exhibition opened.
Zola, on the other hand, who had a strong passion for literature since his early youth, saw his true calling in writing, and had already moved back to Paris with his mother a few years before Cézanne, where he lived in modest circumstances and was affected by poorly paid art reviews Tried to stay afloat in magazines. In 1870 he married the seamstress Éléonore-Alexandrine Meley. Zola later made the acquaintance of Guy de Maupassant and a close friendship developed between the two. Zola also regularly exchanged views with his fellow writer Paul Alexis . In 1885 Zola's novel Germinal was published, which was a major work of European naturalism and cemented his reputation as one of the most important representatives of this literary movement. In the same year his novel L'Œuvre was published , in which he describes a painter whose failure drives his death. A common thesis is that this book dealt the fatal blow to the decades-long friendship with Cézanne, but the same friendly language reads in correspondence after the novel was published as before. Zola also portrayed their mutual friend Jean-Baptist Baille in this novel. In 1898 Zola wrote under the title J'accuse…! wrote an open letter to the President of the French Republic in the daily newspaper L'Aurore accusing judges and high-ranking military officials of anti-Semitism. This article made Zola a polluter, and he was convicted that same year, but managed to escape to London .
production
Staff and cast
The director took Danièle Thompson , who also wrote the screenplay for the film. Thompson was nominated for an Oscar in 1977 for her work as a screenwriter and received a total of five nominations for the César . According to his own statements, Thompson had not known that the two geniuses she portrayed in the film had met at school in Aix-en-Provence and found the story of their friendship, but also of their quarrels, fascinating. Jean-Marie Dreujou acted as cameraman for the film .
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Guillaume Canet and Guillaume Gallienne play the two protagonists Émile Zola and Paul Cézanne in the film . As children, they are portrayed by Lucien Belvès and Hugo Fernandes . The actresses Alice Pol and Déborah François play their future wives Éléonore-Alexandrine Meley and Marie-Hortense Fiquet , who was also Cézanne's muse. Isabelle Candelier plays Émilie Aubert, Zola's mother. The role of Jean-Baptist Baille , whom Cézanne and Zola had known since their school days, was filled with Pierre Yvon . Cézanne's gallery owner Ambroise Vollard is played by Laurent Stocker , Christian Hecq plays the paint dealer Père Tanguy , and Félicien Juttner took on the role of Guy de Maupassant , with whom Zola often met and became a close friend of his when he was a young author . Romain Lancry plays another friend of Cézanne in the role of the painter Achille Emperaire . A number of other painters are also portrayed in the film: Alexandre Kouchner plays Auguste Renoir , Romain Cottard plays Camille Pissarro , Nicolas Gob plays Edouard Manet , Carole Labouze plays Berthe Morisot , and Patrice Tepasso plays Frédéric Bazille .
Filming
The film was shot on location, including in Moulins , in the Forêt de Tronçais, a forest near the Pays de Tronçais , in Bressolles in the Allier department in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region and in Aix-en-Provence , among others at the Place des Martyrs-de-la-Résistance. Cézanne was born in Aix-en-Provence, and Zola later moved there.
Film music
After it was announced on Twitter on August 19, 2015 that Vangelis would take over the work on the film music, Éric Neveux later took over this work. Thompson had worked with Neveux on the film Who Loves Me, Takes the Train in 1998 , for which she was one of the screenwriters. The soundtrack includes 11 songs and was released on September 12, 2016 by Quartet Records.
publication
The film was released in French cinemas on September 21, 2016 and in German cinemas on October 6, 2016. On September 12, 2016, the film was shown in advance in Aix-en-Provence . The presentation took place in the presence of the people involved in the film production. Also in September 2016, the film was presented to a German specialist audience for the first time at the Leipzig Film Art Fair. The film will be released in US cinemas on April 7, 2017.
reception
Age rating
In the United States, the film was rated R by the Motion Picture Association of America for lewd language, sexual innuendo, and displayed nudity . In Germany, however, the film was approved by the FSK without any age restriction. The statement of reasons for the release states: “The film is told episodically and focuses on its two protagonists in extensive dialogue scenes. Since the characters, the historical setting and the topics of art and social recognition give children only a few points of contact, individual depictions of arguments and outbursts of anger do not have a negative effect either. "
Gross profit
So far, the film has had 100,981 visitors in German cinemas. The film has worldwide revenues of approximately $ 3.5 million.
Reviews
Tilman Krause from Welt Online thinks that Guillaume Canet and Guillaume Gallienne did a good job, and the other actors also kept the tasteful level. The film actually works as a panorama of the epoch, but the questions it raises, according to Krause, are stifled by the overloaded staffage.
Web links
- My time with Cézanne in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- My time with Cézanne in the German dubbing file
- Cézanne et moi at AlloCine (French)
- Official website for the film (German)
Individual evidence
- ^ Certificate of release for my time with Cézanne . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry (PDF; test number: 162062 / K).
- ↑ a b c April 2, 1840 - Émile Zola is born In: wdr.de. Retrieved August 23, 2016.
- ↑ a b Sur Les Pas de Cézanne ( Memento of the original dated August 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. , Aix-en-Provence - Office de Tourisme, 2008. (PDF)
- ↑ Paul Cézanne In: touchofart.eu. Retrieved August 24, 2016.
- ↑ Émile Zola In: de-plume-en-plume.fr. Retrieved August 24, 2016.
- ↑ Hanjo Kesting: Emile Zola: 'Germinal' In: ndr.de, December 29, 2015.
- ^ Dorothée Brill: Post from Paris to Provence In: Deutschlandradio Kultur, June 11, 2015.
- ↑ Jordane Guignon: Premières images de 'Cézanne et moi' avec Guillaume Canet et Guillaume Gallienne In: grazia.fr, June 13, 2016.
- ↑ a b Bleu Provence: Le tournage de 'Cézanne et moi' avec Guillaume Canet se poursuit place des Martyrs de la Résistance à Aix en Provence In: scoopnest.com. Retrieved August 24, 2016.
- ↑ 'Cezanne and I' Soundtrack Details In: filmmusicreporter.com, September 13, 2016.
- ↑ Cezanne et moi In: soundtrack.net. Retrieved September 15, 2016.
- ↑ Cézanne - Film and Jas de Bouffan news In: aixcentric.com, April 1, 2016.
- ↑ Bertrand Connin: Cinéma Avant-première nationale de 'Cézanne et Moi' à Aix In: go-met.com, September 14, 2016.
- ↑ Program In: filmkunstmesse.de. Retrieved September 22, 2016.
- ↑ All films of the 16th Filmkunstmesse Leipzig 2016 In: filmkunstmesse.de. Retrieved August 30, 2016 (PDF; 47 KB)
- ↑ Bulletin No: 2458 ( Memento of the original from September 24, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: filmratings.com, January 11, 2017. (PDF, 202 KB)
- ^ Reasons for approval for my time with Cézanne In: Voluntary self-control of the film industry. Retrieved January 11, 2017.
- ↑ Top 100 Germany 2016 In: insidekino.com. Retrieved January 31, 2017.
- ↑ Cezanne et moi In: boxofficemojo.com. Retrieved April 17, 2017.
- ^ Tilman Krause: My time with Cézanne. Impressionists also had male friendships In: welt.de, October 6, 2016.
