Return to the sea

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Movie
German title Return to the sea
Original title Le refuge
Country of production France
original language French
Publishing year 2009
length 88 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
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Director François Ozon
script François Ozon
Mathieu Hippeau
production Claudie Ossard
Chris Bolzli
music Louis-Ronan Choisy
camera Mathias Raaflaub
cut Muriel Breton
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The time that remains

Return to the Sea (Original: Le Refuge ) is a French film drama by director François Ozon with Isabelle Carré and Louis-Ronan Choisy from 2009. In the last part of his “Trilogy about grief” ( Unter dem Sand , 2000; Die Zeit die remains , 2005), Ozon stages the main character's pregnancy as a sign against death. In Germany the film was released by Arsenal Filmverleih .

action

In an apartment in Paris , the drug addict couple Mousse and Louis live to the rhythm of drug deliveries. When Mousse wakes up from a coma, she learns that Louis died from an overdose and that he is two months pregnant from him. At the memorial service for Louis, his mother Mousse makes it clear that the unborn child is not wanted by the upper-class family.

Most of Return to Sea takes place in Summer in Guéthary on the Basque Atlantic coast . Mousse has retired to a holiday home here to carry the child to term in peace. At this place of refuge, she accommodates Louis' brother Paul without enthusiasm for a few days. In the encounter with the homosexual Paul, director Ozon lets us feel the slow change of his main character Mousse. Mousse will give birth to Louis' child and typically name it Louise. Paul later adopts the child. A night of love with mousse also symbolically made Paul the child's legitimate surrogate father.

background

Melvil Poupaud dies in the role of Louis after just 15 minutes of film. Isabelle Carré was six months pregnant while filming. She does not play pregnancy, but experiences it herself. Ozone gives the pregnant body of his actress a central presence on the screen and stages this special charisma of the expectant mother in many sun-drenched close-ups of her round belly and her bare face.

Once again, Ozon struggles with the sea with its metaphor of transitoriness as a scene for mourning and self-discovery. Otherwise he takes his style back completely. Occasionally, almost minimalistically, Ozon uses music, and his pictures of the Basque beach seem downright puristic.

criticism

Ulrich Kriest said in the film service that the film is “heading straight for a point that still calls into question traditional social norms. Mousse carried the child to term, but found that she was unable to build the emotional relationship between mother and child that was always assumed. Somebody else can do that easily. Mousse can see that - and goes her own way. "

Almut Steinlein wrote on critic.de: “Francois Ozon gives the pregnant body of his actress a central presence on the screen and shows this special charisma of expectant mothers in many sun-drenched close-ups of their round belly and their bare face. The fascinated camera view of sensuality and the mystery of pregnancy surrounds mousse with an almost sacred aura. In the end, it seems, and not the house by the sea, to be the eponymous refuge that defies death and gives new life. "

In the Berliner Zeitung, Christina Bylow Ozon attested that he had once again "depressed" an inner family loneliness. At the same time, however, there is something “comforting”, as an “interim lovers” can be found in the “cold zone”.

Awards

The film won the Grand Jury Prize at the Festival Internacional de Cine de Donostia-San Sebastián in 2009 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Release certificate for return to the sea . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , August 2010 (PDF; test number: 124 211 K).
  2. ↑ a b critic.de: Return to the Sea - Film Review , Almut Steinlein; accessed on October 15, 2014
  3. ↑ film-dienst , September 5, 2010
  4. ↑ Christina Bylow: The crux of the gut feeling. In "Return to the Sea" Francois Ozon dedicates himself to a contradicting motherly love . In: Berliner Zeitung . No. 210/2010 , September 9, 2010, cultural calendar. Film / cinema program, p. 4 .