Violette and François
| Movie | |
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| German title | Violette and François |
| Original title | Violette & François |
| Country of production | France |
| original language | French |
| Publishing year | 1977 |
| length | 98 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
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| Director | Jacques Rouffio |
| script | Jean-Loup Dabadie |
| production | Jacques-Eric Strauss |
| music | Philippe Sarde |
| camera | Andréas Winding |
| cut | Geneviève Winding |
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Violette and François (Original title: Violette & François ) is a French comedy film with Isabelle Adjani and Jacques Dutronc from 1977. The film was broadcast on television under the title Fruits with Cream .
action
Violette and François live in Paris with their young son Paul . However, it is difficult for the young parents to gain a foothold professionally. Violette has just lost her job at a bank and François is trying more badly than right as a real estate agent. Violette's mother, Cécile, is concerned, since she was against a relationship with the unreliable François from the start. Violette refuses any support from her mother, even when she and François are robbed of the last of their savings from the open apartment. In order to be satisfied, François stuffs little Paul's jacket with cans the next time he goes shopping and, to Violette's horror, leaves the department store without paying for the cans.
In order to be able to raise the rent, Violette accepts work at a toll station . One evening she meets her friend Carla there, who wants to help her find more lucrative work. In a restaurant they meet a man named David who gives Violette a pile of books. Violette is supposed to read the books and write summaries that David then wants to sell. François, who also tries his hand at being a musician and secretly dreams of bringing out a music journal, meets with his father in the meantime. This reveals to him that he is not his father. His mother, in turn, assures him that no man other than his father is an option.
When François tries to steal a tape recorder, but is caught by the shopkeeper and then followed, he injures his hand. Violette treats him in the shared apartment and is upset about his attempted theft. After all, you couldn't eat a tape recorder. François spontaneously proposes to her and her anger is gone. Shortly after the wedding, Violette François decides to help out with shoplifting. From now on they rattle off the department stores together and make various products disappear in their wide coats. François in particular comes up with all sorts of tricks to make the greatest possible yield. Violette, on the other hand, gradually takes pleasure in her raids and begins to be reckless. While François puts a camera in a little girl's basket in a department store and pretends to be a department store detective on the street and confiscates the camera, Violette lets a perfume go with her and is caught doing it. Violette, who is extremely embarrassed about her arrest, goes angry at François at home, claiming that it was only because of him that she became a criminal.
After their reconciliation, Violette wants to continue as usual. In the next store, however, she panics and runs away. To her surprise, François also wants to stop stealing, as does she. With the financial support of a German, François publishes the first edition of a music journal. However, François quickly ran out of money for further expenses and he was forced to catch prey again. A surveillance camera finally convicts him of shoplifting and arrests him. While he is stuck in the police station, Violette is increasingly worried about him. With Paul in her arms, she finally visits François' father and learns that François has been arrested. A lawyer friend of his ensures that François is released on parole, but Violette has had enough of her nerve-wracking lifestyle. She leaves François and moves with Paul to another man. One evening, François walks along a bridge, thinking of Violette. He prepares to jump from the bridge, but then lets it go and continues.
background
The film was shot from October 1, 1976 to January 5, 1977 in Paris and the surrounding area. The film structures were created by Jean André . Catherine Leterrier designed the costumes . It premiered on March 17, 1977 in France, where the film, which was shown in Gaumont's distribution network , was able to record 887,330 admissions. In Germany the film opened in cinemas on November 18, 1977.
Reviews
The lexicon of international films described Violette and François as a "sentimental-melancholy love story about the search for playful and exciting ways of life". The film was "played in a refreshing way and thoroughly amusing, but overall too non-binding to delve deeper into it". According to TimeOut London, the plot is "absurd enough" to be comical. "François' growing fear and his (sadly) unsuccessful suicidal thoughts" would destroy "the last vestiges of anarchic magic".
Awards
At the Taormina International Film Festival in 1977 the film was nominated for the Golden Charybdis, with which Agnès Vardas sings The One, The Other was not awarded.
Web links
- Violette and Francois in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Detailed review on parallax-view.org (English)
- Pictures of the film on cinema.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ cf. licelfoc.com
- ↑ cf. jpbox-office.com
- ↑ Violette and François. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ↑ "All this is silly enough and not unfunny, but François' growing angst and his (sadly) unfulfilled suicidal urges destroy the last vestiges of irresponsible charm." See Violette et François on timeout.com