Longing for Australia
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Longing for Australia |
| Original title | Australia |
| Country of production | France , Switzerland , Belgium |
| original language | French , English |
| Publishing year | 1989 |
| length | 118 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Jean-Jacques Andrien |
| script |
Jean Gruault , Jacques Audiard , Jean-Jacques Andrien |
| production | Marie Pascale Osterrieth |
| music | Nicola Piovani |
| camera | Giorgos Arvanitis |
| cut |
Henri Colpi , Christian Dior , Chantal Hymans , Ludo Troch |
| occupation | |
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Longing for Australia (Original title: Australia ) is a French - Swiss - Belgian film drama with Fanny Ardant and Jeremy Irons from 1989.
action
The 38-year-old widower Edouard Pierson lives with his daughter in Australia in 1955 , where he was stationed during World War II and now earns his living as a wool merchant. His actual home is Belgium , where his family is still based. However, his relatives do not know that Edouard has a daughter. As a pilot, he met and married an Indonesian woman during the war . Since he was sure that his family would not approve of this connection, he withheld it in his letters. His daughter never got to know her mother as such, because she died shortly after birth.
When Edouard receives a letter from his brother Julien and learns that the family business is on the verge of bankruptcy, Edouard returns to his hometown Verviers . While trying to save the business with his brother, he meets the married Belgian Jeanne. They fall in love and have a passionate affair. Edouard's daughter, meanwhile, begins to investigate her mother, about whom her father never said much. The 12-year-old girl also contacts her grandmother Odette Pierson.
After his family's company has been saved from bankruptcy, Edouard returns to his daughter in Australia, despite the new family ties and against his feelings for Jeanne.
background
Belgian director Jean-Jacques Andrien shot the film on location in South Australia and in his Belgian hometown of Verviers, near the German border. The costumes were designed by Yvonne Sassinot de Nesle . After Volker Schlöndorff's Eine Liebe von Swann ( Un amour de Swann , 1984), this was the second of three films by the French actress Fanny Ardant and her British colleague Jeremy Irons so far. In 2002 they stood together again in front of the camera for Callas Forever , Franco Zeffirelli's film homage to Maria Callas .
Longing for Australia premiered in France on September 13, 1989 and was shown three days later at the Toronto International Film Festival in Canada .
Reviews
The lexicon of international film found that longing for Australia was "beautifully photographed and the main role was ideally cast with Jeremy Irons". The end of the film, however, is "so staid and fake that the atmospherically staged melancholy of the story ultimately remains unanchored". In summary, Cinema also said: “Nice pictures, but on the whole too fake”.
For TimeOut London the film was “a romance that tries unsuccessfully to fathom the inhibited feelings of the Belgian bourgeoisie”. This is "quickly nipped in the bud by dramatic clumsiness, irrelevance and wool". The film has many beautiful pictures to offer, but director Andrien "obviously gave free rein to his documentary instinct", which is why the result is "harmless".
Awards
Giorgos Arvanitis' camera work was awarded both the Belgian Joseph Plateau Prize and the Golden Osella at the Venice International Film Festival .
German version
The German dubbing was created for the German-language premiere in Switzerland.
| role | actor | Voice actor |
|---|---|---|
| Jeanne Gauthier | Fanny Ardant | Viktoria Brams |
| Edouard Pierson | Jeremy Irons | Randolf Kronberg |
| Julien Pierson | Tchéky Karyo | Oliver Stritzel |
Web links
- Longing for Australia in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Reviews and pictures of the film on lesfilmsdeladreve.be (French)
Individual evidence
- ^ Longing for Australia. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ↑ cf. cinema.de
- ↑ “A period romance that attempts, unsuccessfully, to explore the blocked sensibilities of the Belgian bourgeoisie […], this quickly becomes suffocated by dramatic inertia, irrelevance and wool. […] The film often looks great, but Andrien has clearly let his documentary instincts run riot. [...] The result is inoffensive. " see. Australia on timeout.com
- ^ Longing for Australia. In: synchronkartei.de. German dubbing file , accessed on March 2, 2017 .