Que la lumière soit!
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Que la lumière soit! |
| Country of production | France |
| original language |
French English |
| Publishing year | 1998 |
| length | 110 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Arthur Joffé |
| script |
Jean-Louis Benoît Laurent Jaoui Arthur Joffé |
| production | Claudie Ossard |
| music |
Angélique Nachon Jean-Claude Nachon |
| camera | Philippe world |
| cut | Marie Castro-Vasquez |
| occupation | |
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Que la lumière soit! (English: Let there be light! ) is a French comedy film by Arthur Joffé from 1998.
action
God watches television and is so outraged by the images of war and misery that he wrote his own script in Hebrew entitled Que la lumière soit! writes. With his servant, the angel René, who wants nothing more than real wings, he goes to Los Angeles , where he hopes to find a director as quickly as possible. He takes over the body of an Indian who drives to Paramount Studios with the script , but is turned away. A thief eventually steals the script and God is desperate. A Paris poster gives him new courage and he goes to Paris with René, who procures a copy of the script. God now takes over different human bodies by leaps and bounds, whereby his being God becomes clear through constant winking.
Through various stations he met the young Jeanne, who works in a certain Harper's film studio. God watches a short film Jeannes in the form of Jeanne's cleaning lady Suzanne and is enthusiastic about her work. He decides that Jeanne should be his director, especially since her name reminds him of Jeanne d'Arc . However, Jeanne is difficult to convince: her father is dying, so she has other worries. The numerous people through whom God asks her to implement his script make her suspect that they are being made fun of in the context of the hidden camera . In addition, various faxes through which God sends her the script are in Hebrew. Only Rabbi Zilberstein, who lives below her, and his translation device help her to work on the mountain of paper. However, she only believed in the incarnations of God when he saved her from falling from the Eiffel Tower .
She submits his script to her film studio and is received in person by Chef Harper shortly afterwards. He is impressed by the script and gives her a significantly abbreviated form of the script that can be filmed in this way. God is outraged about the cuts, especially since Harper is Satan himself. Nevertheless, Jeanne begins the film adaptation, which God prevents, among other things, through excessive rain. When Jeanne decides not to refuse dinner with Harper, God gives up and disappears. While eating, Jeanne realizes that Harper is indeed diabolical. She tries in vain to bring God back. Harper has her admitted to a psychiatric hospital, where she finds all the people in whose bodies God lived for a short time and who are now considered schizophrenic. The inmates and Jeanne flee together; Rabbi Zilberstein has meanwhile summed up God's script on an essential formula: Jeanne should film people's dreams. She goes to work with her accomplices. When she is finished, God appears with her in the form of her Father. Together they save the film roles that were developed in Harper's studio from being destroyed by the devil. The group escapes to the Notre-Dame de Paris church , where they organize the screening of the film with Father Loublié. This will be a great success, as everyone who is present sees the film of their dreams. All spectators leave the church floating and René finally gets real wings.
production
Que la lumière soit! was shot with a budget of around 60 million francs in Budapest , Los Angeles and especially in Paris . Madeline Fontaine created the costumes and Nikos Meletopoulos designed the film . Director Arthur Joffé dedicated the film to his father Alex Joffé , who died in 1995. It was the fourth feature film directed by Arthur Joffé, as well as his first directorial work after Alberto and the tradition from 1990.
Que la lumière soit! opened in French cinemas on July 8, 1998. An evaluation in Germany is still pending (as of May 2015).
Awards
Que la lumière soit! was nominated in 1999 for a César in the category of best young actress (Hélène de Fougerolles).
Web links
- Que la lumière soit! in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Que la lumière soit! on allicone.fr
- ^ "À la mémoire de mon père"; see. Film credits.