Aunt Daniele
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Aunt Daniele |
| Original title | Tatie Danielle |
| Country of production | France |
| original language | French |
| Publishing year | 1990 |
| length | 111 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Étienne Chatiliez |
| script |
Florence Quentin , Étienne Chatiliez |
| production | Charles Gassot |
| music |
Gabriel Yared , Gérard Kawczynski |
| camera | Philippe world |
| cut | Catherine Renault |
| occupation | |
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Aunt Daniele (Original title: Tatie Danielle ) is a French comedy film by Étienne Chatiliez from 1989/90 with Tsilla Chelton in the title role.
action
Aunt Daniele tells the story of a vicious old woman who takes pleasure in life from making life for her fellow human beings hell - until she comes across a young geriatric nurse who has grown up with her and with whom she develops a real friendship.
The 85-year-old misanthropic officer's widow Daniele Billard lives in a large house in the French provinces. Only her housekeeper Odile, who is almost as old as her, and her dog General, a huge Beauceron who is the only living creature that she has something like sympathy for, live with her. Her only confidante is her husband, who died decades ago, and with whose photography she communicates every evening. Incidentally, for them the world consists only of idiots and morons, whom one quite rightly confronts time and again with their imperfection and stupidity. All people serve her only as welcome objects for her pleasure in bullying and humiliation, especially Odile, who is devoted to her despite everything to the point of bondage . As Odile one day is with the housework by a fall killed at which Daniele is not entirely innocent, decides whose great-nephew Jean-Pierre Billard, who previously knows his aunt only rare visits her, she with him and his family in Paris to take . This is how horror found its way into the until then untroubled family happiness of billiards.
The family - consisting of Jean-Pierre, his spinster sister Jeanne, his wife Catherine and their two sons Jean-Christophe (Totoff) and Jean-Marie - is a collection of some philistine but fortunately good people . Since they have no other relatives, everyone is initially happy about the new family member. That changes quickly, because as much as the billiards try to keep their aunty - they can't please her. Aunt Daniele soon played virtuoso on the keyboard of the guilty conscience and the fears of the family members. She describes the meals that Catherine gives her as inedible, kicks the family dog whenever the opportunity arises, blocks the bathroom for hours in the morning, leaves little Jean-Christophe unattended in the park, watches her nephew and his wife secretly having sex and ruthlessly conquered the sovereignty of the television and remote control. Finally she bursts into a dinner that Catherine and Jean-Pierre give for one of his business partners and his wife and gives the guests the impression that she is a poor, battered woman who even has to beg for food and drink at the hard-hearted billiards. The worst humiliations, however, the unhappy relationship Jeanne has to put up with. The thought that she should look after her aunt on her own during the family's summer vacation triggers real anxiety in her.
When the billiards realize that the personified malice has entered their lives, they decide to take Jeanne on vacation and hire the geriatric nurse Sandrine in her place. The young woman moves into the Paris apartment to look after Aunt Daniele. Of course, she immediately tries to make Sandrine the object of her harassing games. Among other things, she fakes incontinence so that the nurse has to re-make the bed every day and wash the sheets. But the resolute young woman sees through Aunt Daniele and sets her clear limits - an experience that Daniele has to make for the first time in her life. Because despite her age, the aunt basically acts like a malicious, naughty child. Although - or perhaps because - she cannot get her way through against Sandrine, for the first time she feels something like sympathy for a fellow human being. She senses that the unsentimental Sandrine, who does not put up with other people, is in some ways similar to her - and takes her character more seriously than her well-meaning relatives.
The young and old women eventually become friends. But when Sandrine wants to spend a night with a friend, Daniele reacts with a jealous fit of rage. She fires Sandrine and lets out her destructive rage on the billiards apartment. She sets a fire and gives her rescuers from the police and fire brigade the impression that her family left her all alone in Paris during the holidays, provided only with a few cans of dog food as provisions. When they return from vacation, the billiards are temporarily arrested and have to go to great lengths to correct the image of a monster family in the media. After this excess, Aunt Daniele has to move into a retirement home. But there she goes back to her usual pleasures by bullying the staff and her roommates. But one day she disappears from the home without a trace. Apparently a friend picked her up.
criticism
The film critics reacted largely positively to the politically highly incorrect comedy, which derives its joke mainly from the situation comedy.
This is how the critic from cinema.de judged
"Delicious. The malice of a completely "new" old woman. "
The film critic Bernd Hellweg wrote:
“Aunt Daniele is so convincing in every minute that one would like to poison her, but nevertheless the viewer becomes complicit with the old dragon (…). Because the mean Aunt Daniele gets, the bigger the laughs. But the film also stimulates thought about the generation conflict as well as about the limited, hollow and falsehood of the good, bourgeois families. In short: "Tante Daniele" is a wonderfully weird and loving homage to all aunts in the world. "
The film was also occasionally rejected because it allegedly paints a wrong picture of old people. This is how the Lexicon of International Films writes:
“A biting comedy without compassion, which distributes supposedly funny sweepstakes while stirring up and underpinning prejudices. A brilliant cast, but annoying film. "
Awards
Aunt Daniele was nominated for the French César Film Award in three categories in 1991 :
- for Best Actress: Tsilla Chelton
- for Best Supporting Actress: Catherine Jacob
- for the best young actress: Isabelle Nanty
Web links
- Aunt Daniele in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ Cinema
- ↑ Digital VD ( Memento of the original from August 18, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Aunt Daniele. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
