Beautiful Venus

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Movie
German title Beautiful Venus
Original title Vénus Beauté (Institute)
Country of production France
original language French
Publishing year 1999
length 105 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director Tonie Marshall
script Tonie Marshall,
Jacques Audiard ,
Marion Vernoux
production Gilles Sandoz
music Khalil Chahine
camera Gérard de Battista
cut Jacques Comets
occupation
synchronization

Beautiful Venus (Original title: Vénus Beauté (Institut) ) is a French comedy film directed by Tonie Marshall from 1999 with Nathalie Baye in the leading role. With the film, which was awarded four Césars , Audrey Tautou made a breakthrough in France in a supporting role.

action

The Parisian beauty salon "Vénus Beauté" is a meeting place for all kinds of people who are grappling with lovesickness and panic of old age. Boss Madame Nadine and her employees Angèle, Samantha and Marie do what they can to renew their mostly female customers, both externally and internally. But the 40-year-old Angèle is gradually fed up with always having to serve as the sorrows aunt of her customers, especially since her own life is not looking rosy either: She grew up as an orphan after her father first killed her mother and later himself. Fearful of rejection, Angèle is unable to enter into a lasting relationship, and fleeting adventures no longer satisfy her. Sometimes she calls her old lover Jacques out of solitude, but he is mostly unavailable.

Her life changes when Angèle meets the young sculptor Antoine, who immediately falls in love with her and leaves his fiancée for her. He had seen Angèle in a cafe when her last lover left her, and has since appeared regularly in front of the beauty parlor to keep an eye out for her. In a café, he finally confesses his love to her. At first, Angèle does not return his love. However, Antoine remains persistent and makes an appointment for a massage. Over time, Angèle developed feelings for him. The youngest of her colleagues, Marie, meanwhile, has an older pilot as a customer who had his deceased wife's face reconstructed after a burn. He finally invites Marie to his home. Concerned about her colleague, Angèle follows Antoine Marie to the pilot's house to look through the windows from the garden. While Marie is willingly seduced by the much older man, Angèle and Antoine begin to kiss.

Over Christmas Angèle visits her aunts in Poitiers , where Antoine has designed an altar for the local cathedral. Back in Paris, Angèle rushes to the hospital after Samantha pumped herself full of drugs out of Christmas frustration. Angèle learns from Samantha that Madame Nadine is setting up a new shop and that Samantha wants to temporarily replace Samantha with a new girl. But Evelyne, the new colleague, is anything but helpful when she sorts the care products according to their colors instead of their functions. Meanwhile, Antoine's fiancée is convinced that Antoine is still in love with her. She makes Angèle think Antoine is cheating on her, which is why Angèle leaves Antoine.

Samantha, who repeatedly clashes with Madame Nadine and is actually a trained nurse, quits for New Year's Eve. On the same evening, Jacques first appears in the beauty parlor. Angèle timidly suggests that they spend New Year's Eve together and live together again. But Jacques tells her that he has now found a new partner and leaves the shop. Shortly afterwards, Antoine arrives with a present to give to Angèle. His fiancée is watching them through the shop window. When she sees Angèle trying on the dress given by Antoine, she rushes into the shop with a gun and fires a shot, but only hits the lamps. After she leaves, Antoine and Angèle kiss.

background

The shooting took place in Paris and Poitiers. The budget of the film was 2.85 million euros. In France, where Beautiful Venus premiered on February 3, 1999, 1.3 million viewers streamed into the cinemas. In Germany , the tragic comedy was shown in cinemas for the first time on April 6, 2000. Worldwide the film grossed around 7.4 million dollars at the box office. Due to the success in France, the Franco-German television station Arte produced a 25-part series based on the film under the title Vénus et Apollon , which was broadcast by Arte from October 3, 2005.

Reviews

The lexicon of international films praised the “precise staging and the no-frills camera”, which “concentrates entirely on the faces, gestures and dialogues of the brilliant actors”. The actors, on the other hand, succeed in “[diving] into the soul landscapes of their characters with fascinating ease”. Karl-Heinz Schäfer from Cinema thought it was "[lovely] how this tragic comedy combines seriousness, pointed humor and romance in a gorgeous, relaxed way". Beautiful Venus is "[e] in a cinematic make-up case for the soul". You feel "after this 105-minute face mask [...] like lifted". According to Prisma , the film is "excellently played and sensitively staged".

Awards

Awarded three young talent prizes: Audrey Tautou

At the César Awards in 2000, Beautiful Venus was one of the main favorites of the evening with seven nominations alongside Patrice Lecontes The Woman on the Bridge and Luc Besson's Johanna von Orleans . In the important categories of Best Film , Best Director and Best Screenplay , director and screenwriter Tonie Marshall triumphed over the competition and received three trophies. Audrey Tautou was named Best Young Actress. Nathalie Baye , who was nominated for Best Actress , and Bulle Ogier and Mathilde Seigner , who both received a nomination in the category Best Supporting Actress , were subject to Karin Viard and Charlotte Gainsbourg, respectively .

Audrey Tautou was also awarded the Prix ​​Lumières for Best Young Actress and as such also received a prize at the Festival du film de Cabourg. Tonie Marshall also received an award for Best Director in Cabourg. At the Seattle International Film Festival , Nathalie Baye won the Golden Space Needle Award for Best Actress.

German version

The German dubbed version was created at TaunusFilm Synchron in Berlin based on the dialogue book by Michael Schlimgen . Susanna Bonaséwicz directed the dialogue .

role actor Voice actor
Angèle Piana Nathalie Baye Katharina Koschny
Madame Nadine Bull Ogier Renate Danz
Antoine DuMont Samuel Le Bihan Thomas Nero Wolff
Jacques Jacques Bonnaffé Uwe Karpa
Samantha Mathilde Seigner Andrea Solter
Marie Audrey Tautou Dascha Lehmann
pilot Robert Hossein Roland Hemmo
Antoine's fiancée Hélène Fillières Bianca Krahl
exhibitionistic customer Claire Nebout Viola Sauer
Aunt Maryse Micheline Presle Hannelore Minkus
Aunt Lyda Emmanuelle Riva Roswitha Hirsch

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Release certificate for Beautiful Venus . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , January 2005 (PDF; test number: 101 097 V).
  2. ↑ a b cf. jpbox-office.com
  3. ↑ Beautiful Venus. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed February 19, 2020 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  4. ↑ cf. cinema.de
  5. ↑ cf. prisma.de
  6. ↑ Beautiful Venus. In: synchronkartei.de. German dubbing file , accessed on May 8, 2020 .