Party Girl (2014)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Party girl |
| Original title | Party girl |
| Country of production | France |
| original language |
French , German |
| Publishing year | 2014 |
| length | 95 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director |
Marie Amachoukeli Claire Burger Samuel Theis |
| script | Marie Amachoukeli, Claire Burger, Samuel Theis |
| production |
Denis Carot Marie Masmonteil |
| music |
Alexandre Lier Sylvain Ohrel Nicolas Weil |
| camera | Julien Poupard |
| cut | Frédéric Baillehaiche |
| occupation | |
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Party Girl is a French romance drama directed by Marie Amachoukeli , Claire Burger and Samuel Theis from 2014.
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Angélique Litzenburger is 60 years old, has worked all her life in bars as an erotic dancer and is now active as an animator in the Saarbrücken cabaret on the German-French border. She lives in a small room directly above the restaurant, where she is often brought to sober up, even when she is very drunk. One day she visits her regular customer Michel Henrich at home. He hasn't been in the restaurant for a while. He justifies it by saying that he doesn't want to pay more money to be with Angélique. She admits that he is important to her and meets with him once outside of her job when he is taking part in a shooting competition. In the evening they both end up in the cabaret , where Michel proposes to her. She is surprised and he gives her time to think about it. Shortly afterwards she moves to live with him in France. The first night together pass in mutual tension and embarrassment.
Angélique and Michel are now a couple and she introduces him to her children Mario, Séverine and also Samuel via Skype. All three draft a letter from the mother to her youngest daughter, Cynthia, whom Angélique had to place in a foster family at the age of six. Now she would like to invite them to the wedding. This should take place as soon as possible. During the wedding preparations, Angélique slowly began to have doubts as the first rifts appeared between the couple. She likes to party too much, while Michel is more sensible. It bothers him when she smokes at home, she doesn't want to be controlled by him. Angélique is particularly irritated that she does not want to exchange any tenderness with Michel, as she is blocked. She cannot explain her own behavior to herself; she has agreed with Michel that they will only have sex again after they get married. He gives her time.
After a wonderful day with the family, Angélique is drunk and insists on going to the cabaret to party late in the evening . Michel wants to go home and there is a heated argument. Angélique goes alone and instigates every argument in the cabaret until she is thrown out. The next morning she was contrite in front of Michel. The wedding preparations continue. There is disagreement among the siblings about their mother's relationship with Michel, so Mario doesn't believe in a real love between the two. Samuel, in turn, sees how hard her mother tries to start a new life. After the bachelorette party, which Cynthia also attended, Angélique Samuel confesses that she has doubts about the marriage. He sees this as normal shortly before marriage and makes it clear to her how much Michel loves her. The wedding ceremony takes place the next day. Angélique learns how much her children and especially Cynthia love her and is touched. On the wedding night, however, she eludes Michel. She confesses to him that she doesn't love him. He reacts angrily at first and then in deep despair. She goes and spends the next morning in a bar, where she soon starts dancing to the music.
production
With Party Girl , Samuel Theis processed the story of his mother Angélique Litzenburger, who played herself in the film. His siblings and other people also portrayed themselves in the film, giving Party Girl a semi-documentary character. Theis, Burger and Amachoukeli made their directorial debut with Party Girl . The film was shot with a hand-held camera, locations were, among others, Forbach and the nightclub Cabaret Eve (from 2015 Nightclub Madelene ) in Saarbrücken . The film title goes back to the song Party Girl by Chinawoman , which is played in the film. Laurence Forgue Lockhart created the costumes and Nicolas Migot designed the film .
Party Girl premiered on May 15, 2014 as the opening film of the Un certain regard series at the Cannes International Film Festival . It was shown in French cinemas on August 27, 2014. In Germany, the film was shown for the first time on October 3, 2014 at the Hamburg Film Festival . On November 8, 2017, arte showed the film for the first time on German television, with it being subtitled.
Awards
In Cannes, Party Girl won the Caméra d'or and the Prix d'ensemble in the Un certain regard category in 2014. The film was also nominated for the Queer Palm and the Prix Un certain regard. The film won the Grand Prix at the Festival du film de Cabourg in 2014 and the audience award at the Festival Paris Cinéma 2014. Angélique Litzenburger won the prize for best actress at the International Film Festival Bratislava 2014; the film was also awarded the Grand Prix and the Student Jury Prize. At the Festival Internacional de Cine de Gijón, Party Girl won the FIPRESCI Award for Best Film.
At the Prix Lumières , Party Girl was nominated for the Prix Heike Hurst as the best debut in 2015. He also received two César nominations in 2015 : in the categories of Best Editing and Best First Work .
Web links
- Party Girl in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Party Girl on allocine.fr
Individual evidence
- ↑ Party Girl on cinema.de
- ^ A b Jordan Mintzer: "Party Girl": Cannes Review . hollywoodreporter.com, May 15, 2014.
- ↑ Party Girl on filmfesthamburg.de
- ↑ Party Girl on programm.ard.de