Nine months
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Nine months |
| Original title | Neuf mois |
| Country of production | France |
| original language | French |
| Publishing year | 1994 |
| length | 104 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Patrick Braoudé |
| script | Patrick Braoudé Daniel Russo |
| production |
Anne François Christopher Lambert |
| music | Jacques Davidovici |
| camera | Jean-Yves Le Mener |
| cut | Georges Klotz |
| occupation | |
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Nine Months is a 1994 French comedy film directed by Patrick Braoudé .
action
Psychologist Samuel is determined never to have children, as he sees troubled specimens in his practice every day. When his girlfriend Mathilde reveals to him that he is pregnant, Samuel is shocked. He feels “mentally overwhelmed”, especially since his friend and staunch bachelor with changing liaisons Marc tells him horror stories about pregnant women. Marc has just left his girlfriend because she really wanted a child. Marc's brother Georges, who has three daughters with Dominique, also serves Samuel as a chilling example.
Samuel initially keeps his girlfriend's pregnancy a secret, even if his parents soon find out. The preliminary examination takes place in the second month. Samuel and Mathilde promptly meet Georges and Dominique in the hospital, even if they can talk their way out at first. The gynecologist makes a strange impression on both of them, he seems confused, chaotic and very American. He advises the couple to get rid of their cat as it is not good for a baby. Samuel defends himself in vain with the argument that Mathilde had promised that nothing would change through pregnancy. Finally the cat is given away and Mathilde is sick every night. At the first ultrasound examination, the couple meet Georges and Dominique again and the couple now know that the other is pregnant. Although Samuel does not want the child, he does not manage to tell Mathilde this before the end of the third month of pregnancy. In the fifth month he forgets the second ultrasound appointment, although Mathilde had told him the date. He's too late and Mathilde moves out of the shared apartment indignantly. She finds accommodation with Georges and Dominique and refuses to see Samuel. He starts an affair with a young waitress, but leaves her when he happens to meet Mathilde again in a shop.
Samuel reconciles himself with Georges and plans to "accidentally" see Mathilde again with his help and to reconcile with her as well. Before that can happen, he learns that Mathilde has been taken to the hospital with complications. He collapses shortly afterwards. Although doctors suspect an appendix infection, the appendix only proves to be slightly irritated. The doctor therefore concludes that Samuel Mathilde's pregnancy is part of a close emotional bond. In the end, the fact that he is already preparing his apartment for the child without her knowledge also convinces her of his serious intentions. Mathilde and Samuel get together again. In the eighth month of pregnancy they decide that their son should be called David. With Georges and Dominique they both attend a birth preparation course. Samuel convinces Georges to be present at Mathilde's delivery, since he himself cannot get through this emotionally. In the end, Mathilde's amniotic sac bursts in the middle of a restaurant and Georges cannot be reached by phone, so that the dissolved Samuel has to go to the clinic. Here, both of them are accommodated in an already occupied delivery room - in which Dominique is giving birth with Georges at his side. The doctor in charge is the crazy gynecologist. After a chaotic time, Samuel and Georges are finally dads, although Georges, to his chagrin, now has four daughters.
production
Nine Months is a film by Patrick Braoudé, who not only directed but also worked on the script and took on the male lead Samuel. The film bears the dedication “A Guila… toujours” to Braoudé's wife Guila, who was pregnant a year before filming began. Nine Months ran in France on February 2, 1994, hit German cinemas on July 7, 1994, and appeared on video on September 18, 1995. Chris Columbus turned to Nine Months a remake of the film, which was released 1995th
criticism
The film-dienst called Nine Months a “good-natured comedy that lacks speed, but one cannot deny charm”. Cinema found the original "amused with bolder humor and better timing" over the remake.
Awards
Nine Months 1995 received two César nominations: Daniel Russo was nominated in the category Best Supporting Actor and Catherine Jacob in the category Best Supporting Actress for the award.
Web links
- Nine months in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Nine months. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ↑ See cinema.de