Rien que des mensonges

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Movie
German title Rien que des mensonges
Original title Rien que des mensonges
Country of production France , Switzerland
original language French
Publishing year 1991
length 86 minutes
Rod
Director Paule Muret
script Paule Muret,
Jean-François Goyet
production Bruno Pésery ,
Ruth Waldburger
music Stéphane Delplace
camera Renato Berta
cut Catherine Quesemand
occupation

Rien que des mensonges (German: "Nothing but Lies") is a French - Swiss film drama with Fanny Ardant and Alain Bashung from 1991.

action

The 40-year-old Muriel and her husband Antoine belong to the Parisian upper class. Antoine is a busy publisher who makes no secret of his numerous lovers. When their son, Basile, is old enough to move out, all Muriel is left with is a coffee chat with her best friends. However, she does not want to be satisfied with this situation, especially since she still feels like a 20-year-old inside. She eventually takes Adrien, a friend's partner, as a lover and begins to lie to her husband, son, and friends.

As she becomes more and more entangled in her own lies, she tries to regain her connection to reality by hiring a detective to document her affairs with photos. When she confronts her husband with the evidence of her infidelity as a kind of gift, he reacts less than jealous. Rather, he's glad that she gets her money's worth. Muriel is disappointed because she expected a different reaction. However, through her new experiences she learns a lot about herself, about love and life.

background

Rien que des mensonges was the feature film debut of the Swiss Paule Muret, who was responsible for the script as well as the direction. It wasn't until 2016 that Muret directed another film, the love drama For This Is My Body . Fanny Ardant played a supporting role.

The shooting of Rien que des mensonges found from mid-March to end of April 1991 in Garches and Paris. On December 11, 1991, the film was released in France and in French-speaking Switzerland . In Germany it was shown for the first time in 1992 at the Berlinale , where the film drama took part in the competition for the Golden Bear under the German festival title Nothing but Lies . On June 12, 1992, Rien que des mensonges was released in cinemas in German-speaking Switzerland. Muret's debut film was also shown at the Locarno Film Festival in August 1992 .

Reviews

"The film appears in the guise of a woman's film, but spreads an image of women that even a (male) director can no longer afford today," was the lexicon of international film . According to Clarke Fountain of the All Movie Guide , the "main attraction" of the film would be "to see the always elegant Fanny Ardant as a wealthy woman in action trying to get her life back on track." The plot is "thin", but it is still "the respected debut of the director Paule Muret".

Awards

At the 1992 Berlinale , Rien que des mensonges ran in the competition for the Golden Bear , which ultimately won Grand Canyon - In the Heart of the City by Lawrence Kasdan as the best film.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. cf. berlinale.de
  2. Rien que des mensonges. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed February 19, 2020 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  3. “The main attraction of this romantic drama was the chance to see the ever-elegant Fanny Ardent in action as a well-to-do woman who wants to put her life in better order. [...] Despite its thin storyline, this was a well-regarded first feature for director Paule Muret. " Clarke Fountain, cf. omovie.com