Place Vendôme (film)

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Movie
German title Place Vendôme
Original title Place Vendôme
Country of production France
original language French , English
Publishing year 1998
length 117 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director Nicole Garcia
script Nicole Garcia,
Jacques Fieschi
production Alain Sarde
music Richard Robbins
camera Laurent Dailland
cut Luc Barnier ,
Françoise Bonnot ,
Jean-François Naudon
occupation
synchronization

Place Vendôme , also known as Place Vendôme - Hot Diamonds , is a 1998 French drama film starring Catherine Deneuve , set in the square of the same name in Paris .

action

Vincent Malivert and his brother Eric run a jewelry store on the posh Place Vendôme in Paris . Vincent has a good reputation as a diamond dealer, but there are increasing indications that he also sells stolen diamonds. He also got into debt. As the allegations against him become more serious and the creditors demand their money, he commits suicide by racing his car into a truck. His wife Marianne was once also a talented jeweler. However, alcohol and depression put an end to their careers. Since then, she has spent most of the year in a clinic. Vincent's attractive assistant Nathalie, meanwhile, leaves her lover Jean-Pierre, who has lost his lawyer license because of theft, and instead gets involved with Battistelli.

When Eric Malivert wants to sell the jewelry store to a foreign company in order to avoid bankruptcy, Marianne refuses to sign the necessary papers. She is determined to keep the business going as it gives her the incentive to stop drinking and finally overcome her depression. In a hidden safe, she finds seven perfectly cut diamonds that Vincent had withheld from the creditors. Selling the apparently stolen diamonds turns out to be more difficult than expected, especially since others are after the precious stones without wanting to pay for them.

In her search for potential buyers, Marianne visits countless hotels, cafés and jewelery markets in Paris and Antwerp . In doing so, she repeatedly meets Jean-Pierre, who was assigned to her by a certain Wajman. Finally, Marianne spends a night with Jean-Pierre. However, when she realizes that they didn't meet by chance, she turns away from him. Thereupon she learns that Battistelli also wants to get the stones into his possession. Battistelli, who also maintains contacts with the Russian Mafia, uses his lover Nathalie to get at the stones. It turns out that Nathalie, who looks similar to the young Marianne, also had an affair with Vincent. Marianne finally seeks out Nathalie and explains her connection to Battistelli: Marianne had a relationship with Battistelli many years ago. Together they wanted to sell stolen jewels. However, when their illegal activities were exposed, Battistelli abandoned Marianne. While he was able to escape, Marianne was to be held accountable alone. Vincent Malivert turned out to be the legal owner of the jewels, who ultimately decided against filing a complaint and instead took the beautiful Marianne as his wife. Given her bleak marriage to Vincent, Marianne once succumbed to alcohol.

Wajman, who is on Battistelli's heels, forces Marianne to stick Battistelli with the diamonds in order to arrest him afterwards. When they meet in a café, Marianne warns her former lover about Wajman. Together they flee to Ostend , where they spend the night in separate beds in a hotel. Both realize that they were not made for each other, and Marianne no longer holds a grudge against him. Battistelli, who thinks he can do business with Wajman, informs him of his whereabouts. Meanwhile, Marianne walks along the Ostend beach, where she meets Jean-Pierre, who has fallen in love with her.

background

The Place Vendôme in Paris

The shooting took place at the eponymous Place Vendôme in Paris as well as in Antwerp and Ostend . The production costs were the equivalent of 9.3 million euros.

Place Vendôme premiered in September 1998 at the 55th Venice International Film Festival , where the film took part in the Golden Lion competition and Catherine Deneuve was awarded the Coppa Volpi for her performance . The drama hit French cinemas on October 7, 1998. More than 900,000 viewers saw the film there. At the César Awards in 1999, Place Vendôme was nominated for the French film award in twelve categories, including Best Film , but went against films such as Love, Life and Who Loves Me, takes the train empty-handed and was thus the until 2013 Film with the most frequent César nominations without a win. The melodrama was released in Germany on May 6, 1999. The jury of the German Film and Media Evaluation awarded the film the title “Particularly valuable”. The film was released on DVD in 2000 and 2008.

Reviews

For the lexicon of international film , Place Vendôme was "[e] in an impressively played drama that suffers from the weaknesses of the monologue-heavy script and the deliberate overcomplication". Only a few “theatrical finesse flashes”. Cinema found that the film could “please” viewers who “ liked my favorite season of the year and while a heart is beating ”, because the result was a “[m] elancholy melodrama”. According to Prisma , it is "a little detective story with an excellent Catherine Deneuve". However, the film has "a lot of lengths". Right from the start, “you are close to yawning”. It simply takes too long "to get interested in the characters".

Awards

Catherine Deneuve at the César Awards 1999
César

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Further

German version

The German dubbing was created for the first German release in the cinema (May 6, 1999).

role actor Voice actor
Marianne Malivert Catherine Deneuve Helga Trümper
Jean-Pierre Jean-Pierre Bacri Gudo Hoegel
Nathalie Emmanuelle Seigner Irina Wanka
Vincent Malivert Bernard Fresson Hartmut Reck
Eric Malivert François Berléand Reinhard Glemnitz
Malivert employees Michael Culkin Michael Schwarzmaier

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b cf. jpbox-office.com
  2. ↑ cf. fbw-filmb Bewertung.com
  3. ^ Place Vendôme. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  4. ↑ cf. cinema.de
  5. ↑ cf. prisma.de
  6. ^ Place Vendôme. In: synchronkartei.de. German dubbing file , accessed on March 2, 2017 .