Night visor (1975)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Night visor |
| Original title | L'important c'est d'aimer |
| Country of production | France |
| original language | French |
| Publishing year | 1975 |
| length | 109 minutes |
| Age rating |
FSK 18; 16 (revised version 2003) |
| Rod | |
| Director | Andrzej Żuławski |
| script |
Christopher Frank , Andrzej Żuławski |
| production | Albina du Boisrouvray |
| music | Georges Delerue |
| camera | Ricardo Aronovich |
| cut | Christiane Lack |
| occupation | |
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Nachtblende is a French film drama from 1975. It is about a love triangle in the milieu of the Franco-Italian mafia .
action
The unsuccessful actress Nadine Chevalier shoots soft porn in order to survive. While filming, she meets the photographer Servais Mont, who immediately falls in love with her. But Nadine only strives for a sexual relationship because she still loves her impotent and manic-depressive husband Jacques Chevalier very much. Servais is forced by mafia godfather Mazelli to do porn photo shoots because his alcohol and drug addict father owes a lot to the mafia . However, this does not prevent him from borrowing a significant amount of money from the Mafia to get Nadine a role in a performance of Richard III. To provide.
After the piece's critically panned is and Servais all advances by Nadine refuses because he does not want to destroy the love between her and Jacques, Jacques takes life. Servais is beaten up for refusing to continue working for the mafia. The film ends with Nadine returning to the half-dead Servais and confessing her love to him.
background
Romy Schneider received the César for best female actress for her role .
criticism
“'Nachtblende' is a scandalous film . Brutal, naked, obsessive and intense. A film enjoyment of the more complicated kind. "
Zulawski tells a story in which two principles are not only diametrically opposed to each other, but are also intertwined: the principle of money and the principle of love. It creates power in the relationship and produces the impossibility of love - even to death.
Andrzej Zulawski also shows in “Nachtblende” how the characters' relationships with money and power. Last but not least, “night screen” can be understood as a reflection on the question of the meaning of life and what commercialization means for artists.
Lexicon of the international film : “Mixture of psychogram attempt and melodrama, staged in baroque, garish manner. In the description of existential extreme situations sometimes speculative, not infrequently but also involuntarily funny. "
Web links
- The Big Picture in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Comparison of the cut versions Arte - Fr. DVD , FSK 16 DVD - uncut DVD from Nachtblende at Schnittberichte.com
literature
- Jérôme d'Estais: Andrzej Zulawski. LettMotif, 2015. ISBN 978-2-36716-143-3 (paperback), ISBN 978-2-36716-144-0 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Release certificate for night visor . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , March 2003 (PDF; test number: 47 125-a DVD).
- ↑ cf. mitternachtskino.de ( Memento from May 6, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ cf. filmstarts.de
- ↑ Night visor | Dieter Wunderlich: Book tips and more. Retrieved on May 4, 2020 (German).
- ^ Lexicon of International Films