Ponette (film)
| Movie | |
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| German title | Ponette |
| Original title | Ponette |
| Country of production | France |
| original language | French |
| Publishing year | 1996 |
| length | 97 minutes |
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| Director | Jacques Doillon |
| script | Jacques Doillon, Brune Compagnon |
| production | Alain Sarde |
| music | Philippe Sarde |
| camera | Caroline Champetier |
| cut | Jacqueline Fano |
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Ponette is a 1996 French film directed by Jacques Doillon . The film tells the drama of the four-year-old Ponette ( Victoire Thivisol ), who sinks into deep grief after her mother's accidental death.
The leading actress Victoire Thivisol was the youngest recipient of the Coppa Volpi at the Venice International Film Festival .
action
Ponette's mother dies in a car accident and survives with an arm injury. Her desperate father brings her to live with her aunt and her children, Delphine and Matiaz, in the country. Ponette is apparently left to its own devices there. Her aunt tries to comfort her by telling her that her mother is in paradise and that she will see her there again. However, Ponette interprets the resurrection of Jesus, of which she also relates, according to her current needs, and is then convinced that her mother would also and immediately be resurrected. She waits all day for her to finally come back and weeps desperately that she has been waiting so terribly long. Her atheist father berates her severely for this behavior but is unable to give her comfort. Then she is placed in the boarding school, where her aunt's two children are also. Here, too, she is largely left to herself and the strange religious ideas of the other children, including nonsensical tests of courage that are supposed to make her a "child of God" so that she can talk to her mother; these are also not helpful, only lead to another disappointment of Ponette, so that she wants to die and asks Matiaz to kill her. Finally she runs away and wanders alone to her mother's grave, where she actually appears in her imagination, and tells her resolutely that she should no longer mourn, but live her life happily. When her father picks her up, she tells him that her mother was there but will not come back, and the first step in overcoming the grief seems to be taken.
criticism
Lexicon of international film : "A sensitive and poetic film that adopts a child-like, naive perspective to address questions of faith and ideas of God. Despite all the poor staging, an impressive, radical contribution to the subject of faith."
artechock : "As much as Doillons' idea of showing how to deal with death from a child's perspective is convincing, the heaviness of dialogue in the film is questionable. It is not that the dialogues are not believable, only the seriousness of the games with which Ponette believes the return of her mother implemented, thereby in the background. "
kino-zeit: "With a filigree feeling for sensitivities, moods and a childish worldview, Jacques Doillon [...] made a clever and touching film about a deadly serious topic, which ultimately goes beyond the usual heartache calculations that the director and screenwriter used largely omitted, hardly an eye can stay dry. "
Awards
- 1996 São Paulo International Film Festival Critique Prize
- 1996 Venice International Film Festival : FIPRESCI Prize , OCIC Prize and Sergio Trasatti Prize for Director Jacques Doillon, Coppa Volpi for Best Actress Victoire Thivisol, making Thivisol the youngest winner of the prize
- 1997 New York Film Critics Circle Best Foreign Film
- 1997 National Board of Review Award for Best Foreign Language Film
Web links
- Ponette in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Review in the New York Times on May 23, 1997
Individual evidence
- ↑ Ponette. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ↑ artechock.de
- ↑ kino-zeit.de