Va savoir
| Movie | |
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| German title | Va savoir |
| Original title | Va savoir |
| Country of production | France |
| original language | French , Italian |
| Publishing year | 2001 |
| length | 154 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 6 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Jacques Rivette |
| script |
Pascal Bonitzer , Christine Laurent , Jacques Rivette |
| camera | William Lubtchansky |
| cut | Nicole Lubtchansky |
| occupation | |
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Va Savoir is a French film directed by Jacques Rivette from the year 2001 .
action
After three years of absence, actress Camille is returning to Paris for the first time for a guest performance . The group around the theater director Ugo, who is Camille's partner, performs Luigi Pirandello's piece Come tu mi vuoi in Italian and will travel to Vienna in a few days . For Camille, the return to Paris is associated with mixed feelings, since she had left behind her lover Pierre, with whom she had lived for several years. After some hesitation, she went to see Pierre, first meeting his new girlfriend Sonia, who gave ballet lessons, and later Pierre. He is still writing his dissertation on Martin Heidegger and teaching philosophy at a school for funding. The first meeting between Camille and Pierre is aloof.
Ugo is meanwhile in a library looking for the manuscript of Goldoni's piece Il destino veneziano , which was never published. It is believed that Goldoni once gave the piece to Nicolas Vernet . It is Ugo's dream to find the piece one day and be the first to put it on stage. In the library he met the young Dominique, known as Do. She advises him to seek out manuscript collectors. After a detour he finds out that the Vernet estate can be found in Madame Desprez's house - Dos mother. The two of them meet again and spend many hours looking for the manuscript in Vernet's library. Both come closer, with the initiative coming from Do. She reacts frustrated when Ugo doesn't take her flirtation seriously. Dos half-brother Arthur, in turn, watches over his sister. At the same time, he occasionally lets valuable items from the Vernet library with him to sell them to collectors and thus finance his living. Arthur admires Pierre's girlfriend Sonia and has followed her with his love for a long time. Sonia, however, rejects him time and time again.
Camille invites Pierre and Sonia to the theater, but only Pierre appears. Like all performances, the piece is only sparsely attended. Pierre praises Camille's game and lets Sonia tell that she would like to see Camille and Ugo for dinner. Ugo is late for dinner and then talks to Pierre and Sonia, which makes Camille uncomfortable. The next day she goes to Sonia and apologizes for the evening, but Sonia found the group entertaining. She still has a date so they can't go out to dinner together. Later in a bar, Camille sees Sonia hugging Arthur closely. He, in turn, is really only after Sonia's precious diamond ring and secretly makes an impression. He later sedates Sonia and swaps her ring for a cheap copy. Sonia is desperate because the ring has a very emotional meaning for her. Camille promises to get the ring back because Arthur has already started flirting with her. She goes to Arthur and gives him the choice: Either he can spend a single night with her or she will leave immediately. He chooses the night and the next morning Camille searches his apartment. She finds the ring in the flour container.
Camille is unsure whether she wants to continue traveling to Vienna with the theater troupe. She wanted to speak to Pierre and draw a final line, but he confessed to her that after all these years he still loved her and would not let her go away. Pierre even locked her up in his apartment, but she was able to escape through a skylight. Now she is unsure, which Ugo also notices. He visits Pierre and challenges him to a "duel". The two of them meet on the Schnürboden of the theater and each drink a bottle of vodka. According to the rules, whoever falls first into the net underneath has lost. It is Pierre who is falling. Meanwhile, Do found the Goldoni piece he was looking for among the family's cookbooks and brought it to Ugo, who was drunk after the duel. He is overjoyed. Camille hands Sonia her ring, which for Sonia is the only memento of her eventful past. In the meantime she has realized that she can live much easier without the ring, and gives it to Camille. She in turn passes it on to Ugo, who can sell the ring and thus save the financially troubled theater group. Camille has also decided to stay with the troupe and Ugo.
production
Like many of Rivette's films, Va Savoir includes a theatrical performance in the film plot. “Rivette loves the theater because it's so artificial, but for that very reason prefers to make films herself; and he loves it because he loves the comedians, ”says Urs Jenny . In Va Savoir is Pirandello's play Come tu mi vuoi the nameless main character embodies, in which Camille on stage. The film was originally 3.5 hours long, but Rivette shortened it to around 160 minutes for the theatrical screening. As Director's Cut , the film was also shown in its original length in the cinemas.
Va Savoir premiered on May 16, 2001 at the Cannes International Film Festival and was released in French cinemas on October 10, 2001. On June 27, 2002, the film also opened in Germany. In 2008 he appeared with three other Rivette works on the Jacques Rivette DVD collection : four masterpieces in the abridged theatrical version. The film was also shown on television under the title Va Savoir - Nobody knows anymore .
criticism
For the service movie- was Va Savoir a "wise staged, witty written and convincingly played tragicomedy [...] that uses the world of theater not only as an elegant interlude, but also as an exciting reflection of the dialectic between appearance and reality. " Spiegel called the film a" stylish series of relationships ".
Awards
At the 2001 Cannes International Film Festival, Va Savor was screened in the competition for the Palme d'Or . Hélène de Fougerolles received a César nomination for Best Young Actress for her portrayal of Dominique in 2002 .
Web links
- Va Savoir in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Urs Jenny : As you want me . Der Spiegel , No. 26, 2002, p. 161.
- ↑ See broadcast on WDR 2011
- ^ Va Savoir. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ^ Premieres: Va savoir . In: KulturSpiegel , No. 7, 2002, p. 44.