Superstar (2012)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Superstar |
| Original title | Superstar |
| Country of production |
France Belgium |
| original language | French |
| Publishing year | 2012 |
| length | 112 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Xavier Giannoli |
| script | Xavier Giannoli Marcia Romano |
| production | Edouard Weil |
| music | Sinclair |
| camera | Christophe Beaucarne |
| cut | Celia Lafitedupont |
| occupation | |
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Superstar , full title Superstar - The Nightmare of Being Famous is a French-Belgian drama directed by Xavier Giannoli from 2012.
action
Martin Kazinski is a completely normal resident of France, he works in a company that recycles computer scrap and employs disabled people, is in his 40s and single. His parents passed away. One day he is recognized on the way to work in the subway, filmed and asked for autographs. He is confused and pulls away attention. Numerous television and radio teams have asked about him at work and he is recognized on the street. He can't explain the attention to himself. A friend shows him the hype that has developed around him on the Internet in a very short time. Videos showing him in the subway have been clicked hundreds of thousands of times and the network is flooded with photos of him.
Martin is outraged that the public can decide about himself and his privacy. When photos of him appear in a film, he's had enough. He goes to a newspaper that is particularly aggressive in vying for facts from his past and wants to confront those responsible. He is turned away at the entrance and meets a lawyer who promises to help him. He put him in touch with the television journalist Fleur Arnaud, who wants to get to the bottom of the hype. In order to satisfy the public interest and to give Martin an answer to his question “Why me?”, She invited him to the talk show 22 heures en direct . In the talk show, in which rapper Saïa also appears as a guest, the presenter makes the mistake of calling Martin a “banal person”. Saïa is outraged and with him the audience. Martin is now perceived on the street as the humiliated face of the crowd, whereupon his popularity only increases.
Martin has problems at work because his boss can no longer cope with the onslaught of public interest. In addition, there are the first voices calling Martin an artifact and a swindler. It is rumored that Martin's story was launched through a dating portal. In a second talk show appearance, Martin wants to clear up the rumors, but is so cornered by a doctor invited to the talk show that his answer is just a loud, long scream. This cry also finds its way into the media world and is copied on social networks.
The television broadcaster now wants to give Martin his own program in which he is accompanied with the camera in his everyday life. Martin refuses. The mood in the country changes, in a supermarket he is slapped by a woman and later thrown at a speech before a sporting event with shoes and booed. He falls out with Fleur, to whom he feels drawn, but who has an affair with channel boss Jean-Baptiste. When fake commercials for a nightclub, in which Martin was cut, also turn up, the public finally turns away from Martin. It appears completely deranged some time later at the transmitter. He accuses Jean-Baptiste of having lost everything, but Jean-Baptiste realizes that he had nothing before either. As a final response to the public, Martin puts his autobiography on the market under the title L'idole , although he doesn't even know who wrote the book. At the launch party with a few loyal friends, Fleur suddenly appears at the door. Disgusted by the machinations surrounding Martin, she had gone into hiding. She has separated from Jean-Baptiste and tells Martin that she has become someone else. First he sends her away, but then runs after her and fetches her back.
production
Superstar is loosely based on the 2004 novel L'idole by Serge Joncour . The film was shot from February to April 2011 under the working title Talk Show in Paris and in the surrounding towns of Bobigny , Courbevoie and Saint-Denis . The production costs were around 10 million euros. The costumes created Nathalie Benros that Filmbauten come from François-Renaud Labarthe .
The film was released in theaters in Belgium and France on August 29, 2012 and was seen by around 194,500 viewers in France. The film ran on August 30, 2012 in competition at the Venice International Film Festival . On February 21, 2014, Superstar was released on DVD in Germany.
synchronization
| role | actor | Voice actor |
|---|---|---|
| Martin Kazinski | Kad Merad | Michael Lott |
| Martin's colleague | Michaël Abiteboul | Matthias Klages |
| Morizot | Pierre Diot | Peter Flechtner |
criticism
For The Hollywood Reporter , superstar was "enjoyable" well done and beautifully played, even if it was less funny than rather strange. Le Monde praised the film as one of the best films of the year ("l'une des plus belles productions que l'année nous ait données à voir"). The film is balanced, constructive in its approach and free from Manichaeism (“equilibré, constructif dans sa démarche et libre de tout manichéisme”).
The Guardian gave Superstar two out of five stars and called the film an "unsatisfactory satire on the subject of celebrity". The film asks boring and obvious questions, is superfluous and unconvincing. For Le Nouvel Observateur , the film was disappointing and grotesque ("méprisant et grotesque") and possibly the worst film by director Xavier Giannoli.
Awards
At the Venice International Film Festival, Superstar ran in 2012 in the competition for the Golden Lion .
Web links
- Superstar in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Secrets tournage - Tournage on allocine.fr
- ↑ a b Cf. allocine.fr
- ↑ Superstar. In: synchronkartei.de. German dubbing file , accessed on March 2, 2017 .
- ↑ Deborah Young: Superstar: Venice Review . hollywoodreporter.com, August 30, 2012.
- ^ Noémie Luciani: You bonheur d'être "normal" . lemonde.fr, August 28, 2012.
- ↑ "unsatisfying satire on the subject of celebrity" Peter Bradshaw: Superstar - review . theguardian.com, August 30, 2012.
- ↑ Peter Bradshaw: Superstar - review . theguardian.com, August 30, 2012.
- ↑ Vincent Malausa: “Superstar” avec Kad Merad, un film méprisant et grotesque . leplus.nouvelobs.com, August 30, 2012.