Rester vertical

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Movie
German title Rester vertical
Original title Rester vertical
Country of production France
original language French
Publishing year 2016
length 98 minutes
Rod
Director Alain Guiraudie
script Alain Guiraudie
production Sylvie Pialat
Benoît Quainon
camera Claire Mathon
cut Jean-Christophe Hym
occupation

Rester vertical , full title also Rester vertical - Stay upright , is a French feature film by Alain Guiraudie from 2016.

action

Léo is an unsuccessful screenwriter who lives for the day. He does not have a permanent place to live, but has mainly kept his property with friends and acquaintances. Work on a new script is slow and he finds no inspiration. One day he goes to the provinces in his car and drives through the villages. He stops in a village where he approaches an attractive young man - Yoan - who appears to be living with an old man - Marcel. He asks if he's interested in going to the film, but Yoan refuses. Léo continues and finally continues on foot. In the fields he meets the young shepherdess Marie, with whom he starts a conversation about sheep and wolves. The area is populated by wolves, who occasionally attack sheep. Marie therefore always has a rifle with her, because you cannot exterminate the wolves, but you can keep them at a distance. Léo has nothing against wolves.

Léo and Marie get closer and he is allowed to stay with her and her father Jean-Louis for a while. Léo and Marie sleep together. After a while, Léo goes back to town, where he tries in vain to write his script. He consoled the film producer that he would have the script ready in a few weeks. He receives an advance. After a few months, Léo returns to the country. On the way to Marie he looks for Yoan, who rejects him. Marcel also indicates that Yoan was not enthusiastic about Léo's "Advances". Léo realizes that Marie is pregnant; shortly afterwards she gives birth to a boy. She already has two children and is indifferent to the newborn. When Léo doesn't decide whether he wants to live with her, she moves to town with her two older sons and leaves the newborn with him.

Léo is baseless. With the child at his side, he was supposed to look for Marie, but evaded the meeting like his producer, whom he put off again because of the script. He finds shelter with naturopath Dr. Mirande; the next time he visits Jean-Louis, he stops by Marcel, who has since been left by Yoan. He went to Australia to have fun with men. Jean-Louis appears and is angry because Léo did not visit Marie. He brings him to her. She refuses to see the child. At the same time, she makes it clear to him that she would never want to live with him - Léo realizes that he wants to raise the child by himself and is happy with the situation. He is staying with Jean-Louis, who at night the wolves tear down part of the flock of sheep. Jean-Louis takes the child and secretly brings it to the pasture at night to attract the wolves with the screaming. Léo saves the child. Jean-Louis tries to approach Léo, but he rejects him.

Léo leaves and visits Marcel again on the way back. Yoan's back. Again Léo comes to Dr. Mirande below, where the producer soon visits him. He forces him to start the script, but Léo escapes with his child. He is now without money, begs strangers in his city and is finally attacked by homeless people. Jean-Louis and Yoan save him. He's supposed to take care of Marcel while Jean-Louis takes young Yoan away. Marcel is seriously ill and overdoses on a drug mix. Léo, with whom Marcel had flirted over and over again, sleeps with him until the drugs work and Marcel dies. Marcel is questioned by the police, his child is given to Marie by court order. Léo realizes that Marie's new lover is none other than Yoan; He is no longer allowed to see his child. He finds accommodation with Jean-Louis, whom he helps herd sheep.

Months pass, occasionally Yoan comes to Jean-Louis' farm with the child and Léo can spend time with his son. The wolves are still a plague. One day, Léo goes out to pasture with a lamb and slowly approaches a wolf who is quietly waiting for him. Jean-Louis appears and takes the lamb, because Léo's experiment is pointless. Suddenly the whole pack slowly approaches the two men and the lamb. Léo says both should stand up straight and not show fear. As long as this works and both don't fall, nothing will happen.

production

Rue de Siam, where the film was set

Rester vertical was shot in the Poitou-Charentes region , in Languedoc-Roussillon , in the Lozère department and in the Aveyron department . Filming locations included the Cevennes National Park , Montbrun , Sainte-Enimie , Meyrueis , Gatuzières and Hures-la-Parade . Scenes in the city were filmed in Brest in October 2015 , including in rue de Siam and at the town hall (including scenes with the homeless). The costumes were created by François Labarthe , Adélaïde Le Gras and Violet Sabrina , the film construction was done by Toma Baqueni .

As in Guiraudie's earlier films, Rester vertical also contains various sexually explicit scenes, including close-ups of a vulva in the style of Gustave Courbet and real frontal shots of a birth. While some of the film scenes are realistic, other scenes, including those with the doctor, have a more dreamy or nightmarish character. A central theme of the film is that of the single parents (Leo and son, Marie and children, Marie and Jean-Louis, Marcel and Yoan). Basile Meilleurat made his film debut as Yoan.

The film premiered on May 12, 2016 at the Cannes International Film Festival and opened in French cinemas on August 24, 2016. In Germany it was first seen on September 30, 2016 at the Hamburg Film Festival .

Awards

In Cannes the film was nominated for the Palme d'Or and the Queer Palm in 2016 . In 2016, Alain Guiraudie received a nomination for the Prix ​​Louis Delluc in the Best Film category .

Damien Bonnard won a Prix ​​Lumières in 2017 in the category of best young actor . The film was also nominated for a Prix Lumières in the categories of Best Film, Best Director and Best Screenplay. Bonnard also received a César nomination for Best Young Actor in 2017 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Rester vertical - stay upright on franzoesische.filmtage-tuebingen.de
  2. ^ "Rester Vertical" en tournage à Brest . letelegramme.fr, October 26, 2015.
  3. ↑ Hannah Pilarczyk: What Men Want . spiegel.de, May 12, 2016.
  4. ^ Philipp Stadelmaier : Rester vertical . filmbulletin.ch, No. 5, July 31, 2017.
  5. ↑ Secrets tournage: Rêve et cauchemar on allocine.fr
  6. ↑ Secrets tournage: Casser les clichés on allocine.fr
  7. ↑ Marilou Duponchel: Un premier extrait de “Rester vertical” le nouveau film d'Alain Guiraudie . lesinrocks.com, May 4, 2016.