Venus in Fur (2013)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Venus in fur |
| Original title | La Vénus à la fourrure |
| Country of production | France , Poland |
| original language | French |
| Publishing year | 2013 |
| length | 96 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Roman Polanski |
| script | Roman Polański, David Ives |
| production |
Robert Benmussa Alain Sarde |
| music | Alexandre Desplat |
| camera | Paweł Edelman |
| cut |
Hervé de Luze Margot Meynier |
| occupation | |
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Venus in Pelz (original title: La Vénus à la fourrure) is a feature film adaptation of the play of the same name by David Ives , which in turn is based on the novel of the same name by Leopold von Sacher-Masoch . Emmanuelle Seigner and Mathieu Amalric act in the only two roles of the 96-minute chamber play . After The God of Carnage , Venus in Fur is the second stage work in a row that director Roman Polański has adapted for the big screen. The film premiered in 2013 at the Cannes International Film Festival , where it was screened in the competition for the Palme d'Or. The German theatrical release took place on November 21, 2013.
action
After an unsuccessful casting day, the Parisian theater director Thomas is at the end of his tether. Not only that finding the ideal cast for the demanding female lead seems to be an impossibility, he would like to give up the entire production. At this very moment Wanda stumbles through the doors of the theater and introduces herself to the desperate director as a late applicant. Thomas is anything but enthusiastic about her appearance at first, because basically the blonde embodies everything that he cannot stand in women - starting with her appearance, through her sparkling creativity and existing zest for action, to the fact that she lives with seems to take an uncritical matter of course. With luck and tricks, Wanda finally succeeds in persuading him to do an audition for the first three pages of text. She amazes him immensely, because she masters the text completely. Therefore, a complete play-through of the play begins, in which he initially takes on the male part until the two swap roles at Wanda's suggestion. While the line between reality and acting is becoming more and more blurred on stage, hidden passions and terrifying abysses open up between the two characters.
background
As with The God of Carnage , Polanski worked with a manageable ensemble, which this time even got by with two fewer people. While in the film adaptation of the play by the French playwright Yasmina Reza still Christoph Waltz , Kate Winslet , Jodie Foster and John C. Reilly maneuver through the confines of a New York apartment depends Venus in Furs his focus exclusively on two people. Emmanuelle Seigner is a well-known theater actress in France and Polański's wife. Mathieu Amalric is similar to Polański at a younger age.
The film was shot in two different theaters in Paris. The Théâtre Hébertot on Boulevard des Batignolles was used for the exterior shots, while the interior shots took place in the Théâtre Récamier on Rue Récamier.
synchronization
The German dubbed version was created under the leadership of the Berlin TaunusFilm Synchron GmbH based on the dialogue book by Beate Klöckner , who also directed the dubbing .
| role | actor | Voice actor |
|---|---|---|
| Wanda Jourdain | Emmanuelle Seigner | Christin Marquitan |
| Thomas Novacheck | Mathieu Amalric | Olaf Reichmann |
Reviews
“While these films [note: Bitter Moon and The Knife in the Water ] were more like triangles or squares, the third only exists here in the form of Alexandre Desplat's successful film music, which underlines particularly intense moments of becoming. Otherwise Mathieu Amalric, who is a bit more reserved for his circumstances, and Polanski's wife Emmanuelle Seigner are alone in the theater and carry this chamber play effortlessly. Venus in the fur entertains more than challenging in any form, the highlights are not so much the moments of tension as the disrespectful comments from the chubby off-stage Vanda. But the film becomes enigmatic when Polanski gradually builds in breaks within its static setting, when he lets life flow into the theater and vice versa and turns the theater auditorium into a space in which terms like off- and on-stage no longer make sense have in which appearance and reality are blurred. "
“Torment becomes indispensable for inspiration, the loss of which would be more terrible than pain. The director asks him, in unison with the anti-hero sung by Lou Reed: “Severin, your servant comes in bells, please don't forsake him. Strike, dear mistress, and cure his heart. ""
Awards
Venus in Fur was nominated for the Palme d'Or at the 66th Cannes International Film Festival . The film was nominated in seven categories at the French Film Awards ceremony . Roman Polański received the César for best director ; together with David Ives he also received the Prix Lumières for Best Screenplay in 2014 .
Web links
- Venus in Furs in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Venus in Furs atRotten Tomatoes(English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ IMDb . In: Internet Movie Database .
- ↑ moviepilot - content, pictures & trailer . In: moviepilot .
- ↑ a b Venus in fur. In: synchronkartei.de. German synchronous index , accessed on June 10, 2016 .
- ↑ Film review on Critic.de
- ↑ cinema criticism of Lida Bach on Filmfutter.com