Nocturnal longing - unrestrained

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Movie
German title Nocturnal longing - unrestrained
Original title Drôle d'endroit pour une rencontre
Country of production France
original language French
Publishing year 1988
length 100 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director François Dupeyron
script François Dupeyron,
Dominique Faysse
production Catherine Deneuve
music Nicola Piovani
camera Charles Van Damme
cut Françoise Collin
occupation

Nocturnal Longing - Unrestrained (Original title: Drôle d'endroit pour une rencontre ) is a French drama film with Catherine Deneuve and Gérard Depardieu from 1988.

action

After an argument, the capricious France is abandoned by her husband Vincent at a motorway service station. It's cold and very late, but she decides to wait there. She is convinced that her husband will change his mind and return. At the rest stop she meets a doctor named Charles who is stuck due to a breakdown and has been taking apart his engine for two days. He tells her to hitchhike on. It is way too cold to wait. France still wants to hold out on the spot. When a couple takes a break, Charles tries to put France in the couple's car. France defends itself and flees into a small forest. Charles looks for her and finally finds her by the toilets.

With every passing car, France hopes it's her husband. A driver then thinks she is a prostitute and wants her to get into his car. Since she is freezing in spite of her mink coat, Charles makes a small fire on the curb and gives her a blanket so that she can warm up. You finally get into his car to spend the night in it. Charles gives France socks and trainers, which she quickly exchanges for her high heels. When France wakes up the next morning, she blames Charles for falling asleep and therefore probably missing her husband. When the breakdown service tries to tow Charles' car, France decides to come along. They stop at a rest stop with a cafeteria to have a coffee. France asks the waitress if she saw her husband and shows the young woman named Sylvie a photo. Sylvie actually saw Vincent. He was in the cafeteria, told about his wife and left again. France now wants to wait for her husband at the rest stop. Charles decides to stay with her and pays the breakdown service man.

In the toilet, France becomes aware of a woman wearing a leopard print dress. Since she wants to please her husband when he returns, she persuades the woman to swap clothes with her. Then France gets into Charles' car. They talk and France finally starts kissing him. When Charles wants to kiss her again, France gets out of the car again. They get into an argument because France doesn't want to call her husband. France said he couldn't be reached anyway. While she is sitting in the cafeteria, Charles finds her notebook in her bag in the passenger seat. He calls Frances Mann in a phone booth. France rushes to him and takes the receiver from his hand. She tells Vincent that she loves him and is waiting for him. Vincent finally hangs up.

In the evening, France has another coffee in the cafeteria while Charles is in his car. Several trucks finally arrive. Charles blocks a parking lot reserved for truck drivers with his car. Georges, one of the drivers, complains about it. But Charles can't do anything. His car is on strike. While Charles starts talking to Sylvie's after work, France leaves the rest stop and walks along the motorway. The truck drivers follow her in a truck and take her away. However, you are on the wrong lane. Georges is now making fun of driving around the oncoming cars in the slalom. You finally return to the rest stop, where several prostitutes have now gathered. While the other truck drivers each choose an easy girl, France stays with Georges. He draws the curtain on his truck. Charles, whose car is right in front of it, starts honking the horn. Then he turns on his radio and tries to forget France and fall asleep to an opera aria. The next morning France does not sit down with either Charles or Georges in the cafeteria. When she gets her bag out of Charles' car, Pierrot, another truck driver, tries to fix the car. Sylvie then comes by with two travel bags. She finally wants to leave her parents' house and ride with Charles. After stowing their bags in his trunk, however, he is drawn to France again. She asks him to go. Then he sits with Sylvie in the cafeteria. When he returns to his car, he finds France sleeping in it. He drops Sylvie's bags in front of the rest stop and continues with France in his repaired car.

background

The shooting took place mainly at a rest stop near Portes-lès-Valence in the Drôme department near the Rhone . Director François Dupeyron made his feature film debut with the film drama, for which he was able to win two great stars of French cinema with Gérard Depardieu and Catherine Deneuve . Depardieu and Deneuve had previously mentioned in François Truffaut's The Last Metro ( Le Dernier Metro , 1980), The Men I Loved ( Je vous aime , 1980), Choice of Arms ( Le Choix des armes , 1981) and Fort Saganne ( 1984) stood together in front of the camera.

Nocturnal Longing - Unrestrained premiered on October 5, 1988 in France . In Germany , the film was first shown in cinemas on November 9, 1989.

Reviews

According to the lexicon of international films , Nocturnal Longing - Uninhibited "[f] ormally ambitious" and a " first film that endeavors to renew poetic realism ", but "despite the cast, it did not get beyond a viscous psychodrama". Cinema came to a similar conclusion, describing François Dupeyron's directorial debut as a "sluggish psychodrama" that seems "like a valerian overdose".

Awards

At the César Awards in 1989 , the film was nominated for the César in the categories of Best Debut , Best Screenplay , Best Lead Actress (Catherine Deneuve) and Best Young Actress (Nathalie Cardone) , but ended up being empty. Deneuve lost to Isabelle Adjani in Camille Claudel and Cardone Catherine Jacob in Life is a long, calm river .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Nocturnal Longing - Uninhibited. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  2. cf. cinema.de