Monsieur Claude 2
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| German title | Monsieur Claude 2 |
| Original title | Qu'est-ce qu'on a encore fait au Bon Dieu? |
| Country of production | France |
| original language | French |
| Publishing year | 2019 |
| length | 99 minutes |
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FSK 0 JMK 0 |
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| Director | Philippe de Chauveron |
| script |
Guy Laurent , Philippe de Chauveron |
| production | Romain Rojtman |
| music | Marc Chouarain |
| camera | Stéphane Le Parc |
| cut | Alice Plantin |
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Monsieur Claude 2 (original title: Qu'est-ce qu'on a fait encore au Bon Dieu , German : ? What have we done to God because once again ) is a French film comedy directed by Philippe de Chauveron in 2019 and a sequel to the 2014 film Monsieur Claude and his daughters .
action
Claude and Marie keep their wedding promise and visit the families of their sons-in-law in Ivory Coast, Israel, Algeria and China. The trip around the world turns out to be a nightmare for both of them, however, as they cannot cope with cultures that are foreign to them. Meanwhile, their sons-in-law David, Rachid, Charles and Chao are trying to find an investor for their company "Reubio" in Paris, which is supposed to produce both halal and organic products. However, David has to inform his business partners that only one Greek bank wants to give them a loan, which is why Charles, Rachid and Chao get out and demand their money back.
As it turns out, all four have problems integrating into French society: Rachid only gets Muslim clients as a lawyer, in whose cases the issue is full veil ; As a black actor, Charles only gets extra roles as a criminal or drug dealer and is appalled that even Othello is cast with a white actor; David believes that the only reason he is unsuccessful is because envious people don't indulge him, and Chao is increasingly frightened about the rise in crime against rich Asians. Rachid and Isabelle decide to emigrate to Algeria, where Isabelle is to become part of the "bikini revolution". David would like to emigrate with Odile to Israel, where she would like to convert to Judaism and is therefore taking a Hebrew course with her husband , in which she does significantly better than him. Together with Ségolène, Chao is pursuing the plan to go to China, where there are finally interested parties for her paintings, which the whole family hated. After all, Laure and Charles would like to go to India, where they have been offered a good position and where he hopes to achieve acting success in Bollywood .
The four women decide to tell their parents about their plans to emigrate after a meal together. When Claude begins to talk about her trip around the world, mocking the cultures of his sons-in-law, David and Rachid argue about Israel and the situation with Palestine . Marie, on the other hand, is very sad about her daughters' plans. She has now got used to the multicultural family and is now afraid of not being able to see her grandchildren grow up. During a conversation with her priest, he asks her to take in the Afghan refugee Arash. Claude, who has meanwhile retired, has handed over his office and now wants to write a book about a regional poet, believes Arash, who works as a gardener for them, is a Taliban through a misunderstanding . When Arash gets a lumbago while working and Ségolène buys him a support belt, Claude thinks it is an explosive belt and knocks Arash down.
A little later André, Madeleine and Vivianne come to visit from the Ivory Coast and experience the birth of the child of Laure and Charles.
Marie and Claude have meanwhile decided to convince their sons-in-law to stay in France. So they organize a last weekend together, during which they want to show them the beauty of Chinon and the surrounding area on the one hand and give their sons-in-law the prospect of lucrative jobs on the other. So they can convince Charles with the role of Othello in a theater, David with a cheap factory for his new idea, the “grill cooler”, and Rachid with the promising case of a winemaker. When the three find out that Claude and Marie have bribed a lot of people for this, they are touched by their efforts. Only Chao cannot be persuaded to stay with the branch management of a provincial bank. For this reason, Marie uses Photoshop to make him look like a Tibet activist , whereby China declares him an enemy of the state and denies him his visa.
Vivianne wants to marry a black French Catholic, which makes her father André very happy. However, she did not tell her parents that she is a lesbian and that her bridegroom “Nicolas” is actually called Nicole. When this becomes apparent at a first meeting, André becomes weak, has to be looked after by Claude afterwards and refuses to attend the wedding. Finally, Claude can convince him to come to the wedding after all by telling him how bad it would be for his daughter if her father wasn't there on the most important day of her life.
production
In February 2017, Philippe de Chauveron revealed that he was working with Guy Laurent on a sequel to the successful French film with over 12.3 million admissions in France, in which the full cast of the first part would return. The shooting took place in summer 2018 and lasted ten weeks. In February of the same year, four-day filming took place in the Loire Valley , including in downtown Chinon , the location of the film. The cinema production received financial support from the Center-Val de Loire and the local culture agency Ciclic. On May 18, 2018, free recordings were made with a special permit, including with drones, in the Dianes de Poitiers garden of the Chenonceau Castle . The owners of the estate declined to take photos of the interior so as not to disturb visitors to the castle. Another requirement was that the production team had to take photos and selfie requests from tourists on site. Later, film recordings were made in Saumur, 30 kilometers from Chinon . The total budget of the film was around 16.96 million euros.
Philippe de Chauveron commented on the sequel, when the plan was to confront the characters with new problems, there were just elections in France. Many people said they would emigrate if a certain party won, and citizens with a migrant background complained of discrimination, which was the inspiration for the central themes of the film. Similar to the first part, the actors would have been involved in the creation process again. De Chauveron let the actors, who are very creative and imaginative, create certain situations or dialogues themselves and later decided which improvisations to keep. For Christian Clavier , filming the sequel would have been even more fun than the previous one. It was no problem for him to dive into the character of Claude Verneuil again , since de Chauveron would have tailored it to him. The interesting thing was to embody a person who is actually very critical of everything, but now has to convey a positive image of France. Chantal Lauby added that the new problems facing the family are very timely as there are always conflicts over freedom and different cultures in France. It was also easy for her to get back into the role of Marie Verneuil , since she was very similar to herself. Her character is very loving, sometimes a bit clumsy and naive, but definitely not submissive or narrow-minded. For them, the family counts more than anything else.
The French trailer was released on November 11, 2018. A German trailer was released on February 22, 2019. From January 1, 2019, the film was shown in selected cinemas in France. The regular French cinema release took place on January 30, 2019. In Germany, the film was shown in cinemas from April 4, 2019.
synchronization
The German dubbing was directed by Monica Bielenstein based on a dialogue book by Claudia Sander on behalf of TaunusFilm Synchron in Berlin. In contrast to the first part, Christian Clavier is no longer spoken by Michael Pan , but by Wolfgang Müller . The background is Pan's fee dispute with the dubbing studio.
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| role | actor | German speaker |
|---|---|---|
| Claude Verneuil | Christian Clavier | Wolfgang Müller |
| Marie Verneuil | Chantal Lauby | Marina Krogull |
| Laure Verneuil | Élodie Fontan | Kaya Marie Möller |
| Charles Kofi | Naom Diawara | Julien Haggége |
| Isabelle Benassem Verneuil | Frédérique Bel | Magdalena Turba |
| Rachid Benassem | Medi Sadoun | Jan-David Rönfeldt |
| Odile Benichou Verneuil | Julia Piaton | Melanie Pukass |
| David Benichou | Ary Abittan | Jaron Lowenberg |
| Ségolène Ling Verneuil | Emilie Caen | Alexandra Wilcke |
| Chao Ling | Frédéric Chau | Leonhard Mahlich |
| André Kofi | Pascal N'Zonzi | Uli Krohm |
| Madeleine Kofi | Salimata Kamate | Arianne Borbach |
| Vivianne Kofi | Tatiana Rojo | Julia Kaufmann |
| Nicole | Claudia Tagbo | Anja Stadlober |
| Arash | Hedi Bouchenafa | Samir Fox |
| priest | Loïc Legandre | Christian Gaul |
reception
Monsieur Claude 2 received mostly very mixed to negative reviews and is viewed by consensus as significantly weaker than his predecessor.
Hollywood Reporter's Jordan Mintzer sees the film's biggest criticism as the way it wants to convey its message. In contrast to his predecessor, he manages to generate a few mild laughs amid a flood of jokes and “over-the-top” presentations, which makes him feel like a slight increase. Mintzer also takes up the main statement of the mostly banal film that racism exists in all population groups, but everyone can learn to overcome their prejudices and accept other cultures. However, one of the biggest criticisms of the film is the character of David . The Jewish entrepreneur is only out to earn money and spend it on expensive cars or clothes without being staged from another perspective.
The film critic Antje Wessels sees in the sequel to Monsieur Claude and his daughters the problem that Philippe de Chauveron and Guy Laurent lack the intention of eliminating prejudices and instead would stir up more. The biggest mistake is to completely discard the further development of the protagonist Claude Verneuil at the end of the predecessor to an at least partially tolerant patriot and instead to stage him again as a racist. The problem is that none of the characters can respond to him or verbally keep up with him if he lets go of “a real barrage of prejudices” loud, coarse and not very open-minded. In order for the film to work, the viewer must fully engage with Claude's point of view , although one forgets to distance oneself from the character and to question the views. Furthermore, all conversations only revolve around the topic of origin, which is on the one hand "tiring and annoying at the same time" and on the other hand makes the dialogues hardly credible. Even the ending is only designed in such a way that the “minimum requirement for tolerance” is built up as a big happy ending.
For Carsten Baumgardt von Filmstarts , Monsieur Claude 2 has some good approaches, but fails because of the poor implementation, the repetitions of the first part and the scenario that has to be constructed. De Chauveron tries compulsively to give all characters a small storyline, whereby these are neither funny nor biting and the "deliberately clichéd culture clashes" only seem exhausted. The director also does not take the motto show, don't tell to heart, by only letting Claude tell about his apparently bizarre world tour instead of staging it on the screen. To do this, he tries compulsively to trigger controversies with non-offensive or taboo topics, as new conflicts are needed for the continuation. De Chauveron only worked this off in the “classic comedy”. On the other hand, the storyline in which Claude wants to convince his sons-in-law to stay in France is highlighted positively . This is amusing, imaginative and ludicrous, and the pace and timing are right, which makes the film “pure slapstick”. In conclusion, Baumgardt draws that the subtitle “Always good for a surprise” turns out to be a mistake in the film, which is nothing more than a “tired infusion without esprit”.
Rüdiger Suchsland from SWR2 expresses great criticism of the film, but thinks that he at least manages to realistically portray the current political situation in France. Brave and full of courage it was after Charlie Hebdo and the Bataclan to make jokes about terrorism, Muslims and Burkaträgerinnen. However, the film takes only moderate account of social and societal changes after these terrorist attacks and instead just continues the story of the first part. This is how the message arises that one should stick to the traditions and protect oneself from changes. In contrast, the impact of the economic crisis on the younger generation and social change, both the decline in rural development and the influence of other religions, are presented realistically. In contrast, de Chauveron neglects the actual characteristics of a comedy, the high speed and the humor. The dynamic disappears due to too many identical scenarios with the sons-in-law and the associated "equal consideration of all groups". Each son-in-law does not embody an individual, but an entire ethnic group, which stirs up prejudices, but does not create any real personal conflicts.
In contrast to other critics, Walli Müller from NDR Info has a rather positive view of the film. Although he needs a little to get going, he gets more and more moody and funny as Claude tries to keep his sons-in-law in France. On the positive side, it should be emphasized that in times of "increasing hostility to Islam and the resurgent anti-Semitism" it would be nice if all religions and ethnic groups were fraternally united and sat at the table with mutual respect. The film is not particularly profound or sarcastic, but amusing and personable.
In France, the film had around 6.71 million viewers. In Germany, the film recorded around 205,000 visitors on the opening weekend, making it first in the cinema charts. On the second weekend the film was able to stay in the top 3 of the German cinema charts and took second place with 200,000 cinema tickets sold. In the third week it was able to reach third place on the German cinema charts with 95,000 visitors. A week later it occupied the same place with 117,500 tickets sold. In Germany, the film recorded a total of 1,374,305 admissions, which is a significant decrease compared to the 3.9 million admissions of its predecessor. Across Europe, the film was able to gross 72.3 million US dollars , around 64.4 million euros .
At the 45th César Awards in February 2020, Monsieur Claude 2 was nominated for the audience award.
continuation
As announced by Variety in May 2019 , a sequel to Monsieur Claude 2 is in progress, which will again focus on the Verneuil family. Philippe de Chauveron will once again be responsible for the direction and script , while Romain Rojtman will act as producer.
Web links
- Monsieur Claude 2 in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Monsieur Claude 2 in the German dubbing file
Individual evidence
- ↑ Release certificate for Monsieur Claude 2 . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry (PDF).
- ↑ Age rating for Monsieur Claude 2 . Youth Media Commission .
- ↑ Monsieur Claude and his daughters 2 is coming in 2018! In: filmfutter.com. April 9, 2017. Retrieved February 24, 2019 .
- ↑ Monsieur Claude and his daughters 2: This is what the coming sequel is about. In: filmfutter.com. August 13, 2018, accessed February 24, 2019 .
- ^ Julien Coquet: Christian Clavier pour un vrai tournage à Chinon? In: lanouvellerepublique.fr. February 17, 2018, accessed April 6, 2020 (French).
- ↑ Claire Bommelaer: Qu'est-ce qu'on a fait encore au Bon Dieu, une sacrée publicité pour le Val De Loire?. In: Le Figaro . February 2, 2019, accessed April 4, 2020 (French).
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- ^ Press booklet for Monsieur Claude 2, Neue Visionen Filmverleih, pp. 12-13, 16-17, 20-21, accessed on April 3, 2019.
- ↑ German trailer for "Monsieur Claude 2": This is what you can expect in the sequel to the mega-hit. In: filmstarts.de. February 22, 2019, accessed February 24, 2019 .
- ^ "Insolent" demand: That is why Monsieur Claude loses his spokesman. Retrieved April 5, 2019 .
- ↑ 'Serial Bad Weddings 2' ('Qu'est-ce qu'on a (encore) fait au Bon Dieu?'): Film Review. In: hollywoodreporter.com. February 12, 2019, accessed February 24, 2019 .
- ^ Film review by Antje Wessels of Monsieur Claude 2 on March 28, 2019, accessed on April 14, 2019.
- ↑ Carsten Baumgardt's review of Monsieur Claude 2 , accessed on April 14, 2019.
- ↑ Moderately funny "Monsieur Claude 2". April 3, 2019, accessed April 14, 2019 .
- ↑ Monsieur Claude fights for his sons-in-law. March 29, 2019, accessed April 14, 2019 .
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- ↑ Elsa Keslassy: 'Serial (Bad) Weddings 3' in the Works With Romain Rojtman, UGC, Orange Studio (Exclusive). In: Variety . May 22, 2019, accessed March 6, 2020 .