Do not forget me

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Movie
German title Do not forget me
Original title L'Âge de raison
Country of production France , Belgium
original language French
Publishing year 2010
length 89 minutes
Age rating FSK 0
Rod
Director Yann Samuell
script Yann Samuell
production Bénédicte Bellocq ,
Christophe Rossignon
music Cyrille Aufort
camera Antoine Roch
cut Andrea Sedláčková
occupation
synchronization

Forget Me Not (Original title: L'Âge de raison ) is a French - Belgian tragic comedy starring Sophie Marceau from 2010.

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Margaret Flore is a successful business woman who, thanks to female role models like Marie Curie , Maria Callas and Coco Chanel, always maintains her demeanor. As a tough manager, she sells nuclear power plants to the Chinese and also relies on her feminine charms. On her 40th birthday, an old notary named Mérignac appears in her company's office building. He has traveled to Lyon from the provinces to give Margaret a package of letters. At the age of seven, when her name was Marguerite, Margaret wrote the letters to herself. She had lived with her parents and brother Mathieu in the small town of Saou and had arranged with Mérignac that he would give her the letters on her 40th birthday sends. The letters should remind her of the things that were important to her as a child. In the first letter Margaret finds a list of professions that interested her at the time. She dreamed of becoming a whale veterinarian, a saint, a Martian researcher, a wedding cake baker or a princess. After a failed business dinner, Margaret, who is with her colleague Malcolm from England , picks up the other letters. The letter she is supposed to open if she should have become a princess says "Liar". In another, you congratulate your childish self on becoming a Mars explorer.

Margaret and Malcolm eventually have to travel to Shanghai to close an important deal. Margaret receives the next parcel there. As she looks at the photos in it, Margaret remembers how her father once left the family after he had failed professionally and a seizure of all valuables had become inevitable. Her mother even had to sell Marguerite's clarinet to pay the bills. Margaret has always pushed aside her poor childhood and is determined not to waste more time on unpleasant memories.

Back in France, Margaret travels to Saou and offers Mérignac 5,000 euros to stop sending her the letters. Mérignac, who has read all of her letters, does not want to be dissuaded. Another letter speaks of the wedding with her childhood friend Philibert. As children, Marguerite and Philibert had dug in an old well - in the hope of being able to throw bread through the hole to the starving children in Africa . Without letting Malcolm know, Margaret drives one day to a cave with paintings of the pre-humans. As a child, she wanted to meet Philibert there that very day. When they meet again there, Margaret briefly feels the need to kiss Philibert. However, she then flashes it off and drives home again. She then visits her brother Mathieu, whom she has not seen for many years. However, when Mathieu has the impression that she is only visiting him to talk about her letters, he reacts angrily.

Philibert finally shows up in Margaret's office building to hand her a letter. Mérignac, who has been in the hospital since a stroke, asked him to do so. It is the last letter. Because her mother had to work hard in a shoe factory to make ends meet for herself and her two children, Marguerite once came to the realization that money was very important. So she decided to always be the best at everything and to pursue a career. While Malcolm wraps up the business with the Chinese without her, Margaret goes to Saou again to look for treasure in the old well that she once buried there with Philibert. In the rubble of the well she finds a box with another letter in which Marguerite asks her adult self to save her. Margaret eventually realizes what is really important to her in life. She gives Malcolm a little racing car that he always wanted as a little boy and writes a letter to her brother Mathieu. In it she informs him that she is expecting a child, much to Malcolm's delight. Instead of pursuing a career, Margaret prefers to travel to Africa to build a well with Philibert and to advance the local agriculture. In the African desert she finally opens the letter, which she should open if she has not become what she envisioned as a child. Moved to tears, Margaret reads the words "I love you".

background

Saou village, a location in the film

Forget Me Not was filmed from September to October 2009. The budget was 7.2 million euros. In the Drôme department , the municipalities of Saou , Charols , Soyans , Aouste and Crest were used as film locations. In Lyon , the Center de Congrès was the scene of the film several times. The scenes in Africa were made in Morocco .

Forget-Me-Not premiered on July 4th, 2010 in Paris . Around 480,000 viewers saw the film in French cinemas. In Germany, the film was shown for the first time on November 5, 2010 at the French Film Days Tübingen-Stuttgart . It was released in German cinemas on December 23, 2010. It was released on DVD in June 2011.

Film music

The film music was composed by Cyrille Aufort. The film also features:

Reviews

According to Cinema , the "self-knowledge of the tough business woman who has to pause and reflect on the essentials in order to finally find her happiness [...] is an almost annoying cliché". In this regard, “even 'La Boum' legend Sophie Marceau has its limits”. The conclusion was: “Hearty, but also quite bland self-discovery trip between melancholy and wit.” Prisma came to a more positive judgment. Director Yann Samuell showed "skillfully (although not always realistically)" how memories and good ideas of childhood can help to shape life better ". It is also thanks to the “charming, strong leading actress Sophie Marceau” that this “Samuell also succeeded in an enchanting way”.

German version

role actor Voice actor
Marguerite / Margaret Flore Sophie Marceau Irina Wanka
Malcolm Marton Csokas Christian Weygand
Mérignac Michel Duchaussoy Mogens von Gadow

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Release certificate for forget-me-not . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , November 2010 (PDF; test number: 125 203 K).
  2. ↑ a b cf. jpbox-office.com
  3. ↑ cf. ccc-lyon.com
  4. ↑ cf. cinema.de
  5. ↑ cf. prisma.de
  6. ↑ Forget-me-not. In: synchronkartei.de. German dubbing file , accessed on September 2, 2017 .