Salt on our skin (film)

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Movie
German title Salt on our skin
Original title Salt on Our Skin
Country of production Canada ,
France ,
Germany
original language English
Publishing year 1992
length 110 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director Andrew Birkin
script Andrew Birkin ,
Bee Gilbert
production Bernd Eichinger ,
Edwin Leicht ,
Martin Moszkowicz
music Klaus Doldinger
camera Dietrich Lohmann
cut Dagmar Hirtz
occupation

Salt on Our Skin (Salt on Our Skin) is a Canadian - French - German film drama from the year 1992 . Directed by Andrew Birkin , who wrote the screenplay with Bee Gilbert based on the novel Les vaisseaux du coeur by Benoîte Groult .

action

The action begins in the late 1950s. Like every year, George McEwan, who lives in Paris , spends her holidays in Scotland , where she gets to know Gavin, who comes from a farming family. They spend the night together on the beach and discover their first deep feelings for one another.

A year later, George returns to Scotland and meets the now engaged Gavin, with whom she is now starting an affair. In the following years she studied at the Sorbonne . Her lover, who she visits only sporadically, now works as a fisherman . They both marry other partners and have children. George is later divorced and moves to Canada. Gavin takes part in the protests of Scottish fishermen against government policy in London.

When Gavin told George while on vacation together in Florida that life as a fisherman was anything but romantic but rather rough and tough, she encouraged him to pursue another profession. However, he replies that she always wanted a fisherman - and she got one.

At a last meeting, 30 years after the first meeting, Gavin reveals to his lover that he has postponed an urgent medical examination because of her. Shortly afterwards, he dies of the operation he has to undergo and leaves George a suicide note in which he describes her as his only great love.

Reviews

  • Cinema magazine wrote that the film was "erotic kitsch based on the former feminist bestseller" .
  • The author of the novel, Benoîte Groult, also expressed her disappointment in an interview with the newspaper Die Zeit :

“I saw what director Andrew Birkin made of ' salt on our skin '. He told me: George, the Parisian intellectual, should have married the fisherman. I said to him: You didn't understand anything. It was only with difficulty that I managed to prevent a wedding from taking place. Even so, George was just a cartoon in the film, and the fisherman was a macho cut. The character of the woman was just too strong for the director. "

  • The Lexicon of International Films writes:

“Well-kept entertainment that tells your love story effectively, albeit conventionally. However, she loses sight of other aspects of the original, such as the socio-cultural gap between the main characters. "

backgrounds

The film was shot in Glasgow and a few other locations in Scotland . Other locations were Montreal , Paris and the Brit. Virgin Islands . In Germany there were around 889,000 cinema viewers.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Cinema, accessed December 18, 2007
  2. The actress Katja Riemann and the author Benoite Groult talk about men . In: Die Zeit , No. 10/1998
  3. Salt on our skin. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed January 16, 2018 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  4. ^ Filming locations for Salt on Our Skin , accessed December 18, 2007
  5. ^ Box office / business for Salt on Our Skin , accessed December 18, 2007