Saint-Jacques ... La Mecque

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Movie
German title Saint Jacques… pilgrimage in French
Original title Saint-Jacques ... La Mecque
Country of production France
original language French
Publishing year 2005
length 103 minutes
Age rating FSK 6
Rod
Director Coline Serreau
script Coline Serreau
production Charles Gassot ,
Jacques Hinstin
music Hugues Le Bars
camera Jean-François Robin
cut Catherine Renault
occupation

Saint-Jacques ... La Mecque (in Germany and Saint Jacques ... pilgrims in French) is a French film comedy from director Coline Serreau from 2005. It is about the over 1500 km long pilgrimage of three siblings to Santiago de Compostela .

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After their mother's death, three siblings, the illusionary teacher Clara, the alcoholic Claude and the workaholic Pierre, learn that their considerable inheritance will go to charitable institutions if they do not walk together on the pilgrimage of Le Puy-en- Velay to Santiago de Compostela, the so-called Way of St. James . With loud protests, the three siblings, who are deeply divided, decide to take part.

Her hiking group Chemin Faisant around the tour guide Guy also includes Mathilde, who has recovered from chemotherapy, the high school graduates Elsa and Camille, the young Muslim Saïd and his inexperienced cousin Ramzi, who thinks he is on the way to Mecca . Said hopes to get closer to his beloved Camille. He sneaked the money for the trip from Ramzi's mother under the pretext of a pilgrimage to Mecca, which should help the illiterate Ramzi finally learn to read and write.

After initially almost palpable friction on the two-month walk to the tomb of the apostle James , the pilgrims slowly find each other. The relationship between the three siblings also improves. At the Spanish border, Guy reveals to them that they can now take over their inheritance without having completed the rest of the route . But together they follow their tour group through Spain to the cathedral of Santiago de Compostela. Clara gives Ramzi lessons in reading and writing, Saïd and Camille get closer, in the end Guy and Mathilde too. The happiness of arriving at the destination is only clouded by the fact that Ramzi learns of his mother's death in Santiago.

Back in France, Clara (who has taken Ramzi into her family), Claude and Pierre are taken to a spacious property by a notary. Happy and contented, an old woman - apparently the figure of her mother - secretly observes the three reunited siblings from a window in the house.

analysis

Religious aspects of the pilgrimage hardly come into play […]. Pilgrimage offers a free space that brings everyday distance and enables group dynamic processes.

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role actor German speaker
Clara Muriel Robin Katja Nottke
Pierre Arthur de Penguern Frank-Otto Schenk
Claude Jean-Pierre Darroussin Peter Reinhardt
Guy Pascal Legitimus Stefan Gossler
Mathilde Marie Brunel
Camille Marie Kremer Maria Koschny
Elsa Flore Vannier-Moreau
Ramzi Aymen Saïdi
Said Nicolas Cazalé Julien Haggége

Awards

César

Reviews

“The pilgrimage as a journey to yourself in the form of a slow road movie . The warm-hearted story is predictable, but still entertains in a gentle, sympathetic manner. "

“Coline Serreau has woven the legend and reality of the wanderlust, which has flared up again for several years, to the tomb of the apostle James into a sensitive comedy. Under the loving gaze of the director, the leisurely, on foot stumbling road movie naturally develops into a kind of allegory of modern society. "

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Detlef Lienau: At the end of the road, all sins are forgiven. Pilgrimage in the feature film ; in: Practical Theology 2015/2, 115–122.
  2. Saint-Jacques… La Mecque. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used