And if we all move together?

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Movie
German title And if we all move together?
Original title Et si on vivait tous ensemble?
Country of production France
Germany
original language French
Publishing year 2011
length 96 minutes
Age rating FSK 6
Rod
Director Stéphane Robelin
script Stéphane Robelin
production Christophe Bruncher ,
Peter Rommel ,
Philippe Gompel ,
Aurelia Grossmann
music Jean-Philippe Verdin
camera Dominique Colin
cut Patrick Wilfert
occupation

And if we all move together? is a French-German feature film by director Stéphane Robelin from the year 2011 . The film is about five people who have aged in friendship and finally move in together.

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Annie and Jean, an elderly couple, own a large house. Jean is politically active and quickly reacts choleric and threatening to move out. Annie is a psychologist and routinely reacts to her husband's outbursts with sexual offers that quickly reconcile the two. Annie also wants a pool so that her grandchildren come to visit again, which Jean finds decadent.

Jeanne and Albert are a couple of friends, and Claude also belongs to this old, close circle of friends. Because Claude's son is worried about his father with a heart condition, he has to go to a retirement home after a second heart attack that he had during one of his regular visits to a prostitute.

Jeanne does not tell her husband Albert the seriousness of her renewed cancer and Albert, who is often disoriented and forgets many things, is knocked over by his big dog. The daughter decides that the animal has to go to the shelter.

These circumstances give the five friends the idea to get together and move into Annie and Jean's house together. The German ethnology student Dirk, who was originally committed to looking after the dog, finally wrote his doctoral thesis on living in a shared apartment and moved into this shared apartment. He often makes video recordings and interviews the residents. Jeanne tells him openly about her love life and her sexuality in old age; Claude wants him to get him Viagra; Albert remembers again and again the terrible war experiences with the Germans in which his father was killed.

In the course of living together, some more or less dramatic events occur: the house is completely flooded due to Albert's progressive dementia, Claude's affairs with Annie and Jeanne forty years ago come to light and everyone has to cope with these changes and revelations get by. Jeanne finally dies, and the film ends with demented Albert looking for his wife, shouting loudly, since he does not remember that she died, and the other four join in and run into the park calling loudly for Jeanne.

Production and film launch

The film was shot exclusively in France in summer 2010, mainly in the Hauts-de-Seine department and in Paris itself. The producers spent 3.73 million euros on it.

The world premiere took place on August 13, 2011 at the Locarno International Film Festival . The film was shown in French cinemas on January 18, 2012 and in German cinemas on April 5, 2012.

Internationally it was marketed under the title And If We All Lived Together . The film started in Norway in April, followed by Spain and Belgium in June, and in July it was shown in the Netherlands and Australia. Then it ran in Brazil, partly in the USA, Greece, Japan, Italy, Romania, Poland, Argentina, Portugal, Taiwan, Israel and Mexico.

Festival participation

  • August 13, 2011: Locarno International Film Festival, Switzerland
  • October 2011: Mumbai Film Festival, India
  • November 2011: French Film Festival Tübingen-Stuttgart
  • November 2011: Festival de Sarlat, France
  • April 12, 2012: Buenos Aires International Festival of Independent Cinema, Argentina
  • September 28, 2012: Festival du Film Francophone de Namur, Belgium
  • November 9, 2012: Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival, Taiwan
  • September 18, 2013: Sea Film Festival, Netherlands

Reviews

"The fact that Robelin's cheerful film about an idiosyncratic pensioner flat share not only has a prominent cast, but is also very entertaining, is not only due to the amusing basic idea, but above all because of its precise staging and lots of unused punchlines."

- Lars-Christian Daniels, filmstarts.de

"With his second feature film, Robelin has succeeded in creating a touching and cheerful generation portrait ..."

- Anne Haeming, spiegel.de

"The film tastes its comedic view of the entanglements with dramatic-pathetic scenes and excursions into the macabre, without gaining much more than a moderately original number revue from the topic of 'age'."

- Lexicon of international film

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Release certificate for And if we all move in together? Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , January 2012 (PDF; test number: 131 149 K).
  2. ↑ http://www.allocine.fr/article/fichearticle_gen_carticle=18620166.html
  3. ↑ Lars-Christian Daniels: The film starts criticism of And if we all move in together? , accessed March 16, 2014
  4. ↑ Anne Haeming: Senior WG film starts: If you are getting old, then please! spiegel.de, accessed on March 16, 2014
  5. ↑ What if we all move in together? In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed September 27, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used