give me your hand
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Give me your hand Donne-moi la main |
| Country of production |
France Germany |
| original language |
French German Spanish |
| Publishing year | 2008 |
| length | 80 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Pascal-Alex Vincent |
| script | Pascal-Alex Vincent Martin Drouot Olivier Nicklaus |
| production | Nicolas Brevière |
| music | Tarwater |
| camera | Alexis Kavyrchine |
| cut | Dominique Petrot |
| occupation | |
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Give me your hand is the French-German road movie by Pascal-Alex Vincent from 2008. It is about the twins Quentin and Antoine, who set off from France together to Spain to attend their mother's funeral they never knew to participate. During the journey, the identical twins move further and further away from each other to finally embody opposing individuals.
action
The twins Quentin and Antoine are on foot on their way from France to the village of Pasaia , where they want to attend their mother's funeral. They never met either of them, but grew up with their father, in whose bakery they work. Because they don't have the money for a train ticket, the brothers walk the route and end up being stowaways in a truck. At a gas station, they meet Clémentine, a saleswoman who joins them. She sleeps with Quentin in a van they are taken with, but later has sex with Antoine in the woods after Quentin moves away from the campfire. He watches both of them. The next day the brothers go on alone. The mood is tense and aggressive. Both manage to jump on a moving train and thus continue their journey faster.
After a further distance by car, they part ways. While Quentin wants to continue on foot, Antoine goes to a courtyard. He wants to earn enough money from the hay harvest to buy a train ticket. Only after a while does Quentin appear in the yard. Through Antoine's intercession, he is allowed to stay. In the evening he sees Quentin with the farm worker Hakim at the lake and shortly thereafter making love. Antoine hastily leaves the farm the next day; Quentin joins him. The next evening the brothers arrived at the station, even if they didn't have enough money for a ticket. When Quentin disappears briefly in the station toilet, Antoine is approached by a man. He has the stranger pay him 100 euros for sex with Quentin. The man looks for Quentin in the toilet and encounters resistance. Quentin flees and leaves his backpack behind. Antoine finds the backpack and takes it.
Antoine searches in vain for Quentin and boards the train to Spain alone. In his compartment sits a woman who he tells how he once did not warn his sleepwalking brother in the bakery when he approached the oven and how his father was only able to prevent Quentin from getting burned. The traveler, in turn, tells him that as a child she invented a younger sister who she loved very much. The train journey is followed by another route that Antoine has to cover on foot. When he thought he saw Quentin in the distance, he ran off and fell heavily. A woman who lives in a hut in the woods finds him and takes him in. When he regains his strength, Antoine walks on and finally arrives at the cemetery in Pasaia during his mother's funeral. Quentin is already there. After the funeral, Antoine wants to show himself superior again, but Quentin makes it clear to him that he could have done it without him. In a subsequent brawl in the sea, Quentin dominates and hits Antoine so badly that he passes out. Quentin panics and starts to give mouth-to-mouth resuscitation and cries with relief when Antoine comes to. Then he leaves and Antoine is left alone on the beach.
production
Give me your hand was Pascal-Alex Vincent's debut feature film, who until then had only made short films. After Les fautes d'orthographe (2004) and the short film Bébé requin (2005), the twins Alexandre and Victor Carril stood in front of the camera for the third time.
The film was set in the Charente , Charente-Maritime and Vienne departments . You can see the Avia petrol station in Vouillé (meeting with Clémentine) and the Angoulême train station . Marie-Prune Houdayer created the costumes . The animation at the beginning of the film comes from 2 Minutes, Angoulême, and the trick studio Lutterbeck in Cologne.
The film title Donne-moi la main goes back to Colette Magny's song Melocoton and a line of song it contains ("Melocoton, où elle est maman? / J'en sais rien; viens, donne-moi la main / pour aller où?" .: Melocoton, where is mother? / I don't know, come, give me your hand / where to go?). The song is sung in the film by Antoine, among others.
The film ran on November 27, 2008 at the Torino Film Festival and was released in French cinemas on February 18, 2009 and in German cinemas on February 26, 2009. The film was released on DVD in Germany in August 2009.
synchronization
| role | actor | Voice actor |
|---|---|---|
| Antoine | Victor Carril | Heiko Obermöller |
| Clementine | Anaïs Demoustier | Corinna Riegner |
| Hakim | Samir Harrag | Jo Weil |
criticism
The film service called Reich me your hand an "allusive feature film debut that wants to be art-loving, but with pompous images and an overwhelming metaphor of nature overstrains its subject and tends towards a purely artificial product." For Cinema it was a "brittle, irritating film about the desperate." Try to emancipate yourself from a loved one. "
Web links
- Give Me Your Hand in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Official website at Bodegafilms.com
Individual evidence
- ↑ Release certificate from the FSK (PDF; 80 kB)
- ↑ Information according to the trailer of the film.
- ↑ Give me your hand. In: synchronkartei.de. German dubbing file , accessed on March 2, 2017 .
- ↑ Give me your hand. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ↑ See cinema.de