Caution longing
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Caution longing |
| Original title | Les herbes folles |
| Country of production | France |
| original language | French |
| Publishing year | 2009 |
| length | 104 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Alain Resnais |
| script |
Alex Réval , Laurent Herbiet |
| production |
Jean-Louis Livi for F comme Film |
| music | Mark Snow |
| camera | Eric Gautier |
| cut | Hervé de Luze |
| occupation | |
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Caution Sehnsucht is a French literary film adaptation by Alain Resnais from 2009. It is based on the 1996 novel L'Incident by Christian Gailly .
action
Shortly after the dentist and amateur pilot Marguerite Muir bought an expensive pair of shoes, a skater snatched her handbag from her. However, Marguerite is too shocked to report the theft immediately - she exchanges the shoes. A little later, the househusband, Georges Palet, finds Marguerite's purse, which the thief had thrown away, in front of his car. He tries to reach the owner by phone. He begins to be interested in the woman, whom he only knows from two very different passport photos: She looks serious in the picture in her ID card, while she smiles on the one in the pilot's license . Since he cannot reach her, he gives the wallet to the nearest police station.
A short time later - Georges is having dinner with his wife and two grown children - Marguerite calls and thanks Georges. However, she refuses a personal meeting, which he almost wants to demand, to which Georges reacts uncontrollably. The next day he goes to her apartment, where he leaves a letter of apology. He now writes to Marguerite more often, she replies briefly and negatively. She ignores his messages on her answering machine until one day she calls him to ask him to leave her alone. The next day, all of the tires on her car were slashed. Marguerite goes to the police and asks the officers to persuade Georges to leave her alone. She wants to refrain from reporting.
The police intervention is having an effect, Georges tries to forget Marguerite. In turn, she seeks contact with Georges. She calls him and has his wife Suzanne on the line, who tells her that Georges is in the cinema and is watching The Bridges of Toko-Ri . Marguerite goes there and persuades Georges to have a discussion in a café. When Marguerite announced the invitation to a flight together with Georges' wife, he left the café disappointed.
Marguerite then sees herself unable to work and is helped by her friend and colleague Josépha. They visit a gallery where Marguerite spontaneously decides to stop by Georges. There she meets Suzanne and the two women talk. Josépha waits in the car and is surprised and kissed by Georges, who returns drunk. They go into the house together, where the sight of Marguerite makes Georges angry - he kicks her in front of the door. Nevertheless, Marguerite invites Georges and Suzanne to a flight lesson. Both of them come to the hangar at Josépha's personal request , where Georges goes to the toilet and then cannot close his fly. In the corridor he then meets Marguerite and the two kiss.
Even though Fin (End) is faded in, the action continues.
Marguerite, Georges and Suzanne take a sightseeing flight with Marguerite at the wheel and Georges in the next seat. After Marguerite has left the wheel to Georges, she discovers his open trousers, which is so uncomfortable for Georges that he throws the wheel off. From the outside, the aircraft now looks like an aerobatic flight, although it was not designed for it. The film ends with a girl who asks her mother if she would have croquettes to eat if it were a cat (“Maman, quand je serai un chat, je pourrai manger des croquettes?”).
criticism
Variety suspected that Caution Longing was a film for Resnais fans, but that it mightnot get much attentionoutside of the art house scene. Resnais has created an often elusive, but hardly misguided film version from the novel. Reel Film rated Caution Longing as an eccentric and actually not viewable attempt at a film that, with increasing duration, no longer had a plot. In the end, the film is "a hopelessly misguided and thoroughly boring piece that will hardly convince even Resnais' most subordinate fans."
Die Zeit praised the work as a "film about freedom, joyful unsteadiness and the wonderful recklessness of cinema that an almost ninety-year-old director shows us". For the lexicon of international film, it was a "surreal-absurd [en] film" with a "boulevard-esque playful tone" which, as an "intoxicating literary adaptation [...] confidently gets rid of all conventions".
Awards
Caution Longing was featured in the 2009 Cannes Film Festival competition . Alain Resnais was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Prize there.
synchronization
The German dubbed version was made by Berliner Synchron . Beate Klöckner took care of the dialogue book and direction .
| role | actor | Voice actor |
|---|---|---|
| Marguerite Muir | Sabine Azéma | Marie Gruber |
| Georges Palet | André Dussollier | Reinhard Kuhnert |
| Suzanne | Anne Consigny | Vera Teltz |
| Josépha | Emmanuelle Devos | Claudia Gáldy |
| Bernard de Bordeaux | Mathieu Amalric | Olaf Reichmann |
| Lucien d'Orange | Michel Vuillermoz | Stefan Staudinger |
| teller | Edouard Baer | Stephan Benson |
| neighbor | Annie Cordy | Monica Bielenstein |
| Elodie | Sara Forestier | Britta Steffenhagen |
| Jean-Mi | Nicolas Duvauchelle | Tobias Nath |
| Marcelin Palet | Vladimir Consigny | Tim Sander |
Web links
- Wild Grass in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Release certificate for caution longing . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , March 2010 (PDF; test number: 122 256 K).
- ^ "'[Wild] Grass' should spread abundantly among the auteur's enthusiasts, but probably won't grow far outside the arthouse lawn" . See Jordan Mintzner: Wild Grass Review on variety.com ( Memento from November 27, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ "... the director ... transforms [the novel] into his own, often elusive, but rarely misguided dramatic vision" Cf. Jordan Mintzner: Wild Grass Review on variety.com ( Memento from November 27, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ "By the time the movie arrives at its laughably baffling final line [...] Les herbes folles has cemented its place as a hopelessly misguided and thoroughly dull piece of work that's unlikely to hold much appeal for even Resnais' most ardent fans." Cf. . reelfilm.com
- ↑ Katja Nicodemus: As he likes it . In: Die Zeit , April 22, 2010.
- ↑ Beware of longing. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed August 4, 2018 .
- ↑ Beware of longing. In: synchronkartei.de. German dubbing file , accessed on August 4, 2018 .