Everything is over only at the end
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Everything is over only at the end |
| Original title | Les souvenirs |
| Country of production | France |
| original language | French |
| Publishing year | 2014 |
| length | 94 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 0 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Jean-Paul Rouve |
| script |
David Foenkinos , Jean-Paul Rouve |
| production |
Maxime Delauney , Romain Rousseau |
| music | Alexis Rault |
| camera | Christophe Offenstein |
| cut | Christel Dewynter |
| occupation | |
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The end is all at the end (original title: Les Souvenirs , French for memories ) is a French comedy film by Jean-Paul Rouve from 2014. The film is based on the novel of the same name by David Foenkinos , who wrote the screenplay with Rouve wrote. The film premiered on August 23, 2014 at the Festival du film francophone d'Angoulême . The German theatrical release was on March 26, 2015.
action
The notoriously dissatisfied postal worker Michel is overwhelmed with life. Even little things like finding a parking space pose unsolvable problems for him. When he retires, he has problems at home with his wife, who is threatened with divorce. Michel’s mother will also be placed in the retirement home after her husband’s death. When she runs away from there to go to the place of her childhood in Normandy, her son Romain, her grandson, follows with a postcard.
reception
The film-dienst describes the film as a "quiet, melancholy comedy with some absurd interludes that, despite the echoing themes of age, loneliness and crises of meaning, looks positively at life and advocates an effortless intergenerational contract". The film website kino.de judges that the “subtly staged feelgood movie” creates “with great tenderness the ingenious balance between laughing and crying, sadness and courage”. The Hollywood Reporter thinks that the "amiable, easily digestible family dramedy [...] will surely be forgotten in a few years", but does not fail to have the effect of "polished average entertainment". Claudia Lenssen from epd Film awarded 4 out of 5 stars and particularly praises the character of Romain, who “has all the sympathy for this generational comedy”, “in which the follies of the elderly make the maturation and serenity of the younger appear in the most beautiful light”. The film critic Hans-Ulrich Pönack thinks that the excellent actors ennoble the film, which is staged with “charming self-irony and a melancholy look”.
Web links
- Official German website for the film
- At the end of everything is only at the end in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Release certificate for Everything is finished until the end . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , January 2015 (PDF; test number: 149 580 K).
- ↑ Release Info. Internet Movie Database , accessed March 30, 2015 .
- ↑ Everything is over at the end. film service , accessed March 30, 2015 .
- ↑ mk: Everything is over only at the end. In: kino.de . Busch Entertainment Media, accessed March 30, 2015 .
- ↑ Jordan Mintzer: 'Memories' ('Les Souvenirs'): Film Review. The Hollywood Reporter , January 16, 2015, accessed on March 30, 2015 (English): “A pleasant, easily digestible family dramedy […], will likely be forgotten in a few years' time, but nonetheless gets the job done as polished middlebrow entertainment. "
- ↑ Everything is over at the end. epd film , accessed April 5, 2015 .
- ↑ Grandma has the big faxes - "Everything is over at the end" by Jean-Paul Rouve , Deutschlandradio Kultur, March 25, 2015