Micro & fuel
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Micro & fuel |
| Original title | Microbe and Gasoil |
| Country of production | France |
| original language | French |
| Publishing year | 2015 |
| length | 104 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 6 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Michel Gondry |
| script | Michel Gondry |
| production | Georges Bermann |
| music | Jean-Claude Vannier |
| camera | Laurent Brunet |
| cut | Elise Fievet |
| occupation | |
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Mikro & Sprit (original title: Microbe et Gasoil ) is a French comedy film by the director Michel Gondry from 2015. In France, the film was released on July 8, 2015, in Germany on June 2, 2016.
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Fourteen-year-old Daniel, who is not very tall and is therefore called micro , is grappling with pubertal problems. He has artistic talent and is allowed to exhibit pictures in a gallery that he painted of his rocker brother and his friends. His actually loving mother is depressed and annoys him with educational talks. He is in love with his classmate Laura, who likes him too, but does not want to confess to him because of his height. However, she leaves him the address where she is going on vacation. Daniel wins a friend with the extroverted Théo, who has just entered the class. He likes to tinker with engines and is therefore called fuel . Together they build a kind of car with a lawnmower engine that they got from a junkyard. When they did not get approval for this, Daniel had the idea to convert it into a mobile hut. They dream of being able to do what they want once and for all.
Instead of going on vacation with their families in summer, they secretly set off with their vehicle. He buries the smartphone that Daniel got from his brother. Two policemen are fooled and only take a selfie in front of the obscure hut. When they accidentally spend the night on private property, they are forced into his home by the owner, a dentist. They are supposed to stay there overnight and undergo dental treatment the next day, but flee at night. Daniel decides to have his long hair cut, which is why he is often mistaken for a girl. He ends up at a barber shop in the red light zone, from which he escapes with only partially shaved hair because of a brawl that the owner starts with a journalist. He follows him with his friends and takes money from him to cut his hair. Daniel meets this group again playing football, where he steals the ball from them. His self-confidence has grown in the meantime and he wants to face the fight, but Théo stops him and can clear the situation.
The original destination, the Massif Central , turns out to be inaccessible due to the great distance. Instead, Daniel directs the two to Laura's vacation spot, where he finds her on the beach by a lake; however, he does not speak to her because of his blemished hair. This leads to an argument with Théo, who advised him to forget Laura. Théo accuses Daniel of only thinking about himself and not being interested in him. They had parked their mobile hut near a Roma camp. When they come back, this and their hut was burned down. Théo can make them afloat again, but the brakes fail on a slope and they have to jump off while the vehicle falls into a ravine. You go on on foot and come to a town where Daniel cuts his hair completely in a supermarket and buys fresh clothes. At a fair, Daniel, who looks younger with short hair, takes part in a children's drawing competition where they want to win a remote-controlled jet plane. But he only wins second prize, a flight to Paris, and suggests using this for the return trip. Théo has a strong fear of flying, but survives the flight well, while Daniel has hallucinations related to the experience.
After arriving in his hometown of Versailles , Theó has to listen to allegations from his father and learns that his sick mother has died. The father has decided that in future he will have to live with his brother in Grenoble . Daniel's mother, on the other hand, is overjoyed. At the start of school, he can give a schoolmate who has positive comments about Théo's move a trick that Théo showed him. He also punishes Laura with disregard.
reception
The film received mostly good reviews.
André Kummer von Filmstarts.de thinks that "Michel Gondry strikes the balancing act between delicate melancholy and weird wit with French ease in this superbly played and staged coming-of-age comedy ". Cinema .de considers the film to be a “lovable, weird road movie about saying goodbye to childhood” and finds it “profound and crazy funny”.
Web links
- Micro & fuel in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Release certificate for micro & fuel . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry (PDF).
- ^ Review on Filmstarts.de , accessed on June 12, 2016.
- ↑ Review on Cinema.de , accessed on June 12, 2016