Two girls from Wales and a love of the continent
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Two girls from Wales and a love of the continent |
| Original title | Les Deux Anglaises et le Continent |
| Country of production | France |
| original language | French , English |
| Publishing year | 1971 |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | François Truffaut |
| script | François Truffaut Jean Gruault |
| music | Georges Delerue |
| camera | Néstor Almendros |
| cut |
Martine Barraqué Yann Dedet |
| occupation | |
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Two girls from Wales and the love of the continent (original title: Les Deux Anglaises et le Continent ) is a film by François Truffaut from 1971. Truffaut made the film, like Jules and Jim , based on a novel by Henri-Pierre Roché . The main actor Jean-Pierre Léaud is also Antoine Doinel from the Truffauts film series of the same name.
action
Around 1900 the young Frenchman Claude Roc, a dandy and art lover, made the acquaintance of an English woman named Ann Brown (daughter of a friend of his mother), who invited him to spend his holidays with her family in Wales. There she introduced him to her younger sister Muriel and managed to make Claude fall in love with Muriel. The two Puritan sisters are fascinated by the relaxed young man they call "continent". But the hoped-for marriage of Muriel and Claude does not take place: Their two mothers think they are too young to marry and demand a year of separation. Mortally unhappy, Claude returns to Paris and wants to persevere, but his permissive life gains the upper hand.
In the meantime, Ann emancipates herself and travels to Paris to become a sculptor. She visits Claude and becomes his lover, but at the same time is aware that she is abusing Muriel's trust, whom Claude loves. Over time, Ann became Claude's counterpart in the Parisian art scene. She even takes another lover, Diurka, which Claude finds it difficult to accept despite his liberal views.
The drama reaches its climax when Muriel learns of the relationship between Ann and Claude. She becomes seriously ill and falls into a depression from which she only recovers after years and with the help of her religiosity. Her idea of purity separates her from her sister's free life.
Now it is Ann who gets sick: she returns to Wales with tuberculosis and dies there with the words: "My mouth is full of earth."
These words are brought to Claude by Diurka, who had gone to Ann to propose marriage to her.
Claude, devastated, then writes a novel in which he lets a woman love two men - a key novel about his experiences with the two Brown sisters entitled "Jérôme et Julien". Diurka, the publisher, takes care of the publication. Claude says to him: "Right now I have the feeling that it is the people in this book who have suffered in my place."
For Muriel, who from then on knows that time is of the essence, only one thing counts: to find and love Claude. She does so, only for one night, and leaves him in despair in the morning. Muriel leaves him and insists that they could never be happy together. One last hope makes Claude believe in living together with Muriel: when she thinks she is pregnant, but this hope disappears when Muriel informs him in a letter that she was wrong.
Many years go by. Muriel got married and had a daughter. In the mid-twenties, Claude, who never married, goes for a walk in the park of the Rodin Museum; he thinks of Ann's sculptures and his love for these two English sisters when a group of young schoolgirls draws his attention. He looks at them and looks for Muriel's face among them. As he leaves, he sees his aged face in a car window - he wears glasses and a beard - and says, startled: "I look old today!"
background
Truffaut said of his film: “Sometimes in love there is a real violence of emotions that I wanted to film. I don't just mean the hugs I've tried to film objectively and raw without music, but also the confessions, confessions, breakups that make people vomit or faint. To put it in one sentence: I was not trying to make a film about physical love, but a physical film about love. "
Reviews
The film-dienst judged: “Aesthetically carefully composed and psychologically multi-layered film, which depicts the diversity of feelings and makes the causes perceptible, which make these people incapable of a lasting relationship. A discourse on the impossibility of absolute love, which is an equally tempting and destructive utopia. "
On February 9, 1973, Die Zeit announced: “In his own assessment, probably the most serious film, the director demonstrates the distance between the two stories, the difference between romantic fiction and bitter biography, in a very cool and concentrated manner. It's a very nice, very sad film about the fragility of emotions, about the slow death of a love. "
synchronization
| role | actor | Voice actor |
|---|---|---|
| Claude Roc | Jean-Pierre Léaud | Wolfgang Draeger |
| Anne Brown | Kika Markham | Heidi Treutler |
| Claire Roc | Marie Mansart | Marianne Wischmann |
| Diurka | Philippe Léotard | Thomas Bride |
| estate agents | Georges Delerue | Norbert Gastell |
| teller | Holger Hagen |
Web links
- Two girls from Wales and the attention to the continent in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Two girls from Wales and the love for the continent in the German dubbing file
Individual evidence
- ↑ Quotation according to Arte ( Memento of the original from January 15, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed January 17, 2008.
- ↑ Film tips . In: Die Zeit , No. 7/1973.
- ↑ Two girls from Wales and a love of the continent. In: synchronkartei.de. German dubbing file , accessed on April 3, 2020 .
