Do you understand the Béliers?

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Movie
German title Do you understand the Béliers?
Original title La famille Bélier
Country of production France
original language French , LSF
Publishing year 2014
length 106 minutes
Age rating FSK 0
JMK 0
Rod
Director Eric Lartigau
script Victoria Bedos ,
Stanislas Carré de Malberg
production Éric Jehelmann ,
Philippe Rousselet
music Evgueni Galperine ,
Sacha Galperine
camera Romain Winding
cut Jennifer Augé
occupation
synchronization

Do you understand the Béliers? (Original title: La famille Bélier ) is a French tragic comedy by Éric Lartigau from 2014 . It focuses on the life of a deaf family that depends on the help of their hearing daughter in everyday life. When she receives a singing scholarship and wants to go to Paris , the addiction becomes a problem. The film started in France on December 17, 2014, in Germany on March 5, 2015 and in German-speaking Switzerland on March 12.

action

A family of four, consisting of 16-year-old Paula, her brother Quentin and their parents Rodolphe and Gigi, live on a farm in the small community of Lassay-les-Châteaux in the Mayenne department in western France . Except for Paula, all family members are deaf. The deaf members of the family communicate in sign language , which Paula also learned from an early age. For this reason, Paula's help is essential both as a hearing aid and as an interpreter in many everyday situations, which is not always easy for the girl. There is a division of labor in the sale of the cheese produced on the farm at the market: the mother smiles and packs, Paula talks and her brother collects.

The situation doesn't get any easier when Paula's father wants to become mayor. Paula now has to interpret at the election meetings.

Because Paula's “crush” Gabriel joins the school choir, she wants to sing there too. During auditions, the music teacher discovers Paula's singing talent and encourages her to audition and study singing on the Paris radio station Radio France . However, she has to work hard and rehearse with the teacher every day. Paula does everything she can to take regular singing lessons. But when one day a television station wanted to report on the mayoral candidacy and was filming in the Béliers' courtyard, she came too late to the rehearsal. The music teacher leaves her standing in front of the locked door despite the pouring rain and Paula desperately cycles home.

At the end of the school year the school choir will give a concert and Paula and Gabriel will sing a duet. Because their performance is not passionate enough for the teacher, the two should dance together during the first singing rehearsal. Later, Gabriel wants to come to Paula's house to practice, which makes Paula extremely excited. In the middle of the rehearsal, your first rule kicks in.

When Paula informs her family about her plan to apply to study singing in Paris, her mother accuses her of wanting to abandon the family. Gigi also says that she herself hates all people who are not deaf and that she tried to raise Paula like a deaf person. Paula then wants to bury her plans so that she can continue to support her parents.

Paula suggests that her friend Mathilde should help with the market. To do this, Mathilde has to learn the sign language that Paula's brother is only too happy to teach. During the class - by candlelight - the two get closer and Quentin suffers an anaphylactic shock because he is allergic to the latex contained in the condom . Mathilde is not of great help in the market.

The school choir's concert with the duet is a complete success. Paula's parents sit in the audience and, although they can't hear anything, Rodolphe at least begins to sense the passion with which Paula is devoted to singing. Her father wakes her up early the next morning and together with the family they drive to Paris, where Paula is supposed to sing at ten o'clock. Gabriel drives after the music teacher.

Paula sings, accompanied by her music teacher on the piano, in front of the jury and signs the lyrics for her family upstairs in the stands. The song is about a child who leaves home.

She is accepted, says goodbye to brother and parents and walks to the car, beaming with happiness.

synchronization

Susanna Bonaséwicz was responsible for the dialogue book and dialogue direction on behalf of Christa Kistner Synchronproduktion GmbH Potsdam .

role actor German speaker
Gigi Belier Karin Viard (mute)
Rodolphe Bélier François Damiens (mute)
Monsieur Thomasson Eric Elmosnino Frank Schaff
Paula Belier Louane Emera Lina Rabea Mohr
Mathilde Roxane Duran Amelie Plaas-Link
Quentin Belier Luca Gelberg (mute)
Gabriel Ilian Bergala Patrick Baehr
mayor Stéphan Wojtowicz Frank-Otto Schenk
Journalist Celine Jorrion Greta Galisch de Palma
Mlle Dos Santos Mar Sodupe Iris Artajo
Dr. Pugeot Jérôme Kircher Jörg Pintsch
Jury chairman Philippe Dusseau Tobias Lelle

Reviews

The film service described the film as an "emotional comedy that is less convincing through its original content than through its warm-hearted characters". The “accomplished actors, but above all the brilliant main actress” covered up “minor plot weaknesses and some less successful ideas”. Birgit Roschy from epd Film awarded three out of five stars and assessed this “coming-of-age of a provincial girl” as a film after which “you leave the cinema in a good mood”, “although what is shown is pretty flat”. The many "plot holes" would be made up for by a "hand in hand of burlesque, drama and music". The German Film and Media Assessment (FBW) gave the film the rating "Particularly valuable", among other things on the grounds that "an old topic - the pain of growing up for children and parents - is varied in a lovable way".

Trivia

Son Quentin's actor Luca Gelberg is also deaf in real life. The other actors in the family, François Damiens, Karin Viard and Louane had to learn French sign language for the film.

Awards

César 2015

Prix ​​Lumières

European Film Award 2015

See also

  • Beyond Silence - film with a similar theme (hearing daughter, deaf parents)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Release certificate for Do you understand the Béliers? Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , January 2015 (PDF; test number: 149 440 K).
  2. ↑ Age rating for Do you understand the Béliers? Youth Media Commission .
  3. ↑ Release Info. Internet Movie Database , accessed March 26, 2015 .
  4. ↑ Marius Nobach: Do you understand the Béliers? film-dienst , 5/2015, accessed on March 26, 2015 .
  5. ↑ Birgit Roschy: Do you understand the Béliers? epd Film , 3/2015, accessed on April 5, 2015 .
  6. ↑ FBW: Do you understand the Béliers? (PDF) German Film and Media Rating (FBW) , accessed on August 17, 2015 .