Violette Nozière
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Violette Nozière |
| Original title | Violette Nozière |
| Country of production | France , Canada |
| original language | French |
| Publishing year | 1978 |
| length | 122 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK - |
| Rod | |
| Director | Claude Chabrol |
| script | Odile Barski , Hervé Bromberger , Frédéric Grendel |
| production | Eugène Lépicier , Denis Héroux |
| music | Pierre Jansen |
| camera | Jean Rabier |
| cut | Yves Langlois |
| occupation | |
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Violette Nozière is a 1978 film directed by Claude Chabrol .
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The teenager Violette ( Isabelle Huppert ) is bored by the boring petty bourgeoisie in the Paris suburbs at the end of the 1920s. Mother Germaine ( Stéphane Audran ) is also dissatisfied, because her husband Baptiste ( Jean Carmet ) is only a train driver and not an engineer, which occasionally gives rise to taunts. The honest Baptiste is not Violette's real father; this secret is shared by mother and daughter. Germaine imagines a better life for the daughter and therefore urges her to practice virtues such as hard work, cleanliness and order. But Violette secretly works as a casual prostitute. This enables her to look a little older when she is fashionably dressed. The family doctor finds that Violette has become infected with syphilis and tells her parents about this. A suitor, a medical student, however, suspects that the disease is hereditary. She is now trying to convince her parents that she is still a virgin.
Violette falls in love with a good-for-nothing in the Latin Quarter and wants to bind him to her so that he can take her off into a more exciting life. In addition, she supports him financially with money from her prostitution work, and she also steals from her parents. With the threat of having his paternity blown, Violette blackmailed her prominent real father in order to get even more money. Baptiste, in particular, is starting to baffle Violette's constant excuses. He suspects that something is wrong with her. Finally, Violette tries to get her parents out of the way. She fakes a visit to her lover's parents and gives off the poison as a doctor-prescribed medicine for syphilis. Parents take it before eating. The father dies immediately, but Germaine Nozière survives. During police interrogation, Violette accuses her father of sexual abuse. The mother protests against this accusation. Violet thieves fly up. In a sensational process followed by the angry public, Violette is sentenced to death and later pardoned. At the end of the film one learns that after 1945, after she was released from prison, she was still the mother of five children.
Reviews
- Prisma Online : “With this crime melodrama, Claude Chabrol filmed a spectacular criminal case in free form that made headlines and heated discussions in France in 1934. Chabrol is not satisfied with simply presenting the facts, but stages it as a cleverly nested lesson in film directing. And, as always, he is also interested in detailed lighting of the milieu. The actors are also excellent, especially Isabelle Huppert in the title role. "
- film.at: “The excellently played and virtuously staged character study of an impenetrable: none of the possible motives - sexual repression, social ambition, getting through with the lover, even sheer boredom - seems sufficient. The most famous film Chabrols in the late 1970s is an early example of the restrained, classicist mode in his work. "
"Virtuously staged and played, but superficially in the description of the petty bourgeoisie and superficially in the character drawing, so that the film is nothing more than a non-binding melodrama, which on top of that shows a tendency towards opportunistic speculation."
backgrounds
The film was based on a real-life incident in Paris in the 1930s, which at the time upset the whole of France. The Surrealists in particular have dealt intensively with the case.
Awards
Isabelle Huppert was awarded the Actor Award at the Cannes International Film Festival in 1978 . Stéphane Audran received a César for best supporting female role.
Web links
- Violette Nozière in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- detailed table of contents
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- ↑ prisma.de: Violette Nozière
- ^ Film.at: Violette Nozière Critique
- ↑ Violette Nozière. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed January 18, 2017 .