25 Degrees in Winter
- Carmen Maura: Abuelita
- Jacques Gamblin: Miguel
- Ingeborga Dapkūnaitė: Sonia
- Raphaelle Molinier: Laura
- Pedro Romero Juan
- Lubna Azabal: Loubna
- Valérie Lemaître: Estelle
- Aleksandr Medvedev: Yevgeny
- Josse De Pauw: home manager
- Laurence Vielle: Madame Violaine
25 Degrees in Winter ( Original title: 25 degrés en hiver ) is an internationally produced tragicomedy by Stéphane Vuillet from the year 2004.
Action
In the middle of winter, it is in Belgium on a day extraordinary 25 degrees. The Spaniard Miguel is with his small van on the highway traveling to Brussels to bring his daughter Laura to school. Miguel's wife has settled some time ago in the United States. Through a truck accident, however, a long traffic jam has formed, so he brings Laura to walk to school. When he returns, sits a Ukrainian woman named Sonia in the car and asks him for help. She holds illegally in Belgium to visit her lover Yevgeny.
He takes her to the apartment to himself. When the landlord is ringing, because Miguel has high rent arrears, both flee through the window. He drives past at a book -maker and is 150 euros on a 4-0 win for Real Madrid against Barcelona because he has dreamed of exactly this result on the last night. Then he gets his mother Abuelita a call and learns that his daughter Laura is treated in hospital after a scuffle at school.
Now they sit fourth in the car and decide to take Sonia to address her friend. There, however, this is no longer resident. In the former apartment of Miguel Sonia comforting and it comes to first caresses. A home resident gives them a new address where Sonia's friend is no longer also be found. Finally they received word from the current place of residence. The fully occupied car drives now there. Sonia provides Yevgeny for speech and learns that he is now with another woman named Estelle performs a relationship.
Deeply disappointed, Sonia runs along the beach, where Miguel and Laura just learned by telephone that Miguel's wife has no interest in marriage. Miguel and Sonia fall into his arms and kiss. On the return trip, the radio broadcast of the football match Real Madrid against Barcelona runs. Real Madrid has just scored the 4-0.
Criticism
" The over-excited film shows not only the clichés of life in a small multi - cultural country to excess before, but is so hectic staged that any emerging sense and any thoughtful situation guided by ever new, supposedly funny gags in a different direction be. "
" Stéphane Vuillets film is a comic tragedy that touched to be cheesy, also because Vuillet naturally integrates the comedy in the movie without. All main characters have their suffering recognized without pathetic to act and to address without it. The Unspoken tells us the story more about the characters than the nonetheless entertaining and snappy dialogue. [ ... ] The soundtrack of flamenco sounds developed 25 degrees in the winter a dynamic that one hopes to find in European cinema more often. "
" The successful tragicomedy is the feature film debut of living in Belgium French cameraman and short film director Stéphane Vuillet, who staged his tragi-comedy in the style of his great idol Pedro Almodóvar. With a lot of empathy, as witty and sometimes surprising images Vuillet shows the complications in the lives of his four protagonists who he doing but never exposes. Worth seeing are the acting performances of Jacques Gamblin as Miguel and Carmen Maura as his crazy mother. "
Awards
At the 2004 Berlin Film Festival, the film was in competition for the Golden Bear and was ultimately awarded the prize of the jury read the Berliner Morgenpost. Furthermore, was nominated 25 degrees in the winter for Best Picture for the biznaga de Oro at the Festival de Málaga. When Cinemania Film Festival, the film could win an audience award in 2004, as in 2005 at the International Film Weekend Würzburg.