Violette (movie)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Violet |
| Original title | Violet |
| Country of production |
France Belgium |
| original language | French |
| Publishing year | 2013 |
| length | 139 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Martin Provost |
| script | Martin Provost Marc Abdelnour René de Ceccatty |
| production |
Miléna Poylo Gilles Sacuto |
| music | Hugues Tabar-Nouval |
| camera | Yves Cape |
| cut | Ludo Troch |
| occupation | |
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Violette is a French-Belgian biography by Martin Provost from 2013. It deals with the life of the writer Violette Leduc .
action
I. Maurice: During the Second World War , Violette Leduc lived in hiding with the writer Maurice Sachs . Both pretend to be married even though Sachs is homosexual. Leduc loves him and reacts aggressively to his rejection. He then advises her to process her anger literarily. After the first rehearsals, he encourages her to keep writing. He leaves after a while, but promises to return. Violette later learned from a friend that Sachs was doing labor in Germany. She refuses to fake pregnancy to bring Sachs back to France. By chance she finds a book by Simone de Beauvoir from her friend , which she takes.
II. Simone: Violette is enthusiastic about Simone's book and puts flowers in front of her door. She continues to write her first book, which she will call The Smothering . Financially, she is still doing well after the end of the war because, as in wartime, she continues to trade in groceries. One day Violette gives Simone her finished book. Simone is impressed, requests some reworking and announces that Albert Camus wants to publish the novel in a new book series. Meanwhile, Violette learns that Maurice was murdered in Germany.
III. Jean: Violet's debut novel appears in small editions and hardly finds readers. Simone encourages the frustrated Violette and advises her to simply tell everything that she has experienced, including something about her abortion. Violette meets Jean Genet and the wealthy perfume manufacturer Jacques Guérin.
IV. Jacques: Violette writes her second book, The Starving , about her futile love for Simone. Jean Genet praises her work, but Violette has reservations about giving it to Simone for preview. She makes an amateur film with Jean and Jacques Guérin, but fails to play a mother. She tries to get close to Jacques, who is homosexual and rejects her. Violette is hurt. Jacques offers to bring out Die Starving as a luxury edition; she herself received 100,000 francs. Violette agrees; only now does she give the manuscript to Simone, who takes it with her on her reading tour to the USA.
V. Berthe: Violette has heard nothing from Simone for more than three months and is desperate. She finally finds her at a rehearsal by Jean Genet, who is currently preparing the performance of his play The Maids . The two women quarrel and Simone admits she was surprised by the depth of love Violette had for her. The starving woman becomes a failure and Violette begins to doubt herself, especially since she is facing financial ruin. Simone reveals to her that Gaston Gallimard has given her a monthly grant of 25,000 francs so that she can continue writing.
VI. Faucon: Violette is on vacation and devotes herself to writing. She plans to address her sexual relationship with a classmate as well as her short marriage and her abortion. The book will ravages hot. On her hikes, Violette gets lost and ends up in Faucon , where she discovers an empty house, where she spends her vacation and where she finishes her book. Devastation is controversial at Gallimard. You just want to get the book out without the passages on the classmate relationship. Violette laments that she is being mutilated in this way, but chooses Gallimard because other publishers would also censor the passages on abortion. Shortly afterwards, Violette collapses and is admitted to a psychiatric clinic where she is treated with electric shocks, among other things. Simone, but also Jean Genet and Jacques, visit her regularly and Simone pays for the stay. After her release, Violette wants to stop writing, but changes her mind given the support of her friends. She realizes that the grant does not come from Gallimard, but from Simone.
VII. La Bâtarde / The Bastard: In Faucon, Violette meets the young bricklayer René, with whom she has a brief affair. She finishes her new book, The Bastard , and hands the manuscript to Simone. This decides to give more support. She wrote the foreword to the book, which was a great success in 1964. While Violette lives and writes in Faucon, Simone is publicly committed to her new work. The credits show that not only Die Bastardin , but also Violette's subsequent works were successful. Violette did not ultimately die as an unknown.
production
Violette was filmed in Paris and the surrounding area ( Pantin , Clichy , Aubervilliers , Malakoff ), in the Vexin Nature Park and in the Limousin region . Madeline Fontaine created the costumes, Thierry François designed the film ; Director Martin Provost had already worked with both of them on his film Séraphine . Another collaboration with Michael Galasso , who had written the film music for Séraphine , was planned, but Galasso died in 2009. The film is divided into seven chapters, which, according to Provost, should be reminiscent of book chapters, since Leduc had processed her life in her books.
Violette had its premiere on September 6, 2013 at the Toronto International Film Festival and was shown in French cinemas on November 6, 2013, where it was seen by around 135,000 viewers. The film was released in Germany on June 26, 2014 and was released on DVD in November 2014.
synchronization
| role | actor | Voice actor |
|---|---|---|
| Violet Leduc | Emmanuelle Devos | Elisabeth Günther |
| Simone de Beauvoir | Sandrine Kiberlain | Madeleine proud |
| Jacques Guérin | Olivier Gourmet | Jacques Breuer |
| Berthe Leduc | Catherine Hiegel | Angelika Bender |
| Jean Genet | Jacques Bonnaffé | Ekkehardt Belle |
| Maurice Sachs | Olivier Py | Philipp Moog |
| Hermione | Nathalie Richard | Carin C. Tietze |
| René | Stanley Weber | Stefan Günther |
criticism
Cinema saw in the film “[t] a multi-layered portrait of a feminist driven by a hunger for love”. For Focus ,too, Violette was a “dense portrait of a love-hungry, exuberant, impulsive woman.” The film captivates “with its somewhat hypothermic, excellent post-war ambience,” said Weltwoche . The Tages-Anzeiger called the film an “attentive and empathic, but also contradictory drawing by a writer who almost obsessively laid bare her life”.
outnow-ch gave four out of six stars and called the film adaptation successful, albeit too long, for which "some really beautiful pictures of the French landscape" compensate. "Very detailed narrated biopic," said the mirror . “It's a shame that the staging does not achieve the pulsating intensity that characterized Leduc's literary productions,” wrote the Neue Zürcher Zeitung .
Awards
Violette was nominated in 2015 for a Magritte for Best Foreign Film in Co-Production (Meilleur film étranger en coproduction).
Web links
- Violette in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Secrets tournage - Requiem on allocine.fr
- ↑ Secrets tournage - Un film romancé on allocine.fr
- ↑ Violette on allocine.fr
- ↑ Violette in the German dubbing index
- ↑ Violette on cinema.de
- ^ "Violette": Portrait of an uncompromising writer . focus.de, June 21, 2014.
- ↑ Cinema / Further premieres - Violette . In: Weltwoche , May 28, 2014, p. 59.
- ↑ "My God, this devotion" . In: Tages-Anzeiger , June 5, 2014, p. 25.
- ^ Review by Violette on outnow.ch, May 13, 2014.
- ↑ New Films in June - Violette . In: KulturSpiegel , No. 6, 2014, p. 47.
- ↑ Violet . In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung , May 22, 2014, p. 47.