Coming Home (2012 film)
- Agathe Bonitzer: Gaëlle Faroult
- Reda Kateb: Vincent Maillard
- Hélène Fillières: Anne Morellini
- Noémie Lvovsky: Sabine
- Jacques Bonnaffé: Yves
- Grégory Gadebois: Frank
- Marie Payen: Juliette
- Margot Couture: Gaëlle, 10 years
- Makita Samba: Timothée
À moi seule is a French film from 2012, in which Frédéric Videau, who also wrote the screenplay, directed by. The film tells the story of the kidnapping victim Gaëlle Faroult whose captivity, and renewed life in freedom are described. À moi seule ran in competition at the 62nd Berlin International Film Festival and was in this context on 10 February 2012 its world premiere.
Action
At the beginning of the film Gaëlle Faroult sitting at a bus stop and looks at a picture of a missing girl, she shows herself eight years younger. She just fled and on the way to her parents, who could not handle her disappearance. As a result, Gaëlle trying to find their way back to freedom, while in flashback the story of her abduction and captivity are told.
After the abduction, she was imprisoned in a cellar, where she waited for her abductor. In the result, but changed noticeably her relationship with her kidnappers Vincent Maillard. The balance of power is shifting. It begins Vincent Maillard bossing and even takes the initiative by flirting with whether he wants to sleep with her. In freedom, she finds herself alone and must attend a psychological facility. The divorced mother hangs back to her daughter, who has already developed as adults very different needs.
Background
The film was produced by the company Les Films Hatari. It was the third film directed by Frédéric Videau with which he was first represented at the International Film Festival in Berlin. 10 February 2012 à moi seule celebrated its world premiere in competition at the 62nd Berlin International Film Festival. The plot is loosely inspired by the story of Natascha Kampusch.
Reviews
À moi seule received from Fritz Göttler who evaluated him for the Süddeutsche Zeitung a negative review. His conclusion was: ". Kampusch A French variant very unspectacular and sometimes awkward told " Peter Uehling -reviewed À moi seule for the Berliner Zeitung and judged him mixed. He criticized the increasing fragmentation of the film in its second half, derein individual episodes " not to a thematically coherent narrative " would connect. But He raises his leading lady out positively. He wrote: " Agathe Bonitzer plays Gaelle as a scratch brush, as bony - narrow allegory emotional withdrawal. Personal leave, which the director has written in her script, she does not want to play - their representational instinct is against the author in the law, because these individual issues are irrelevant to that of the nature of family and intimacy. "
For the B.Z. Agathe Bonitzer was even a favorite for the Silver Bear for Best Actress. This Einschützung is shared by Jutta Heeß who has seen the film for the culture time. They judged the film also positive. She finds À moi seule was a " depressing and at the same time impressive film. This is due to the clever mounting technique of the director, but especially in the extraordinary acting performance by Agathe Bonitzer. " Bonitzer they also remember to Charlotte Gainsbourg at the beginning of her career.
Awards
The film received an invitation to the 2012 competition for the Golden Bear at the Berlin International Film Festival. As part of the film festival À moi seule was awarded the Prize of the Guild of German Art House Cinemas.