Don't Worry, I'm Fine

Do not worry, I'm fine ( Je vais bien, ne t'en fais pas ) is a French film directed by Philippe Lioret from the year 2006. Lioret himself describes his adaptation of the novel by Olivier Adam as " disturbing, intelligent sense Thriller ".

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After her return from the holidays, the 19 -year-old Lili learns that her twin brother Loic was gone after a violent argument with his father from home. The equanimity with which their parents Loïcs accept disappearance, coupled with the fact that her brother, to whom she had a close relationship, does not answer her, Lili to fall into a deep depression, in her condition progressively worsened. When she finally no longer eats, she is admitted to a psychiatric clinic.

Her condition is improving only when she finally gets every few days letters from her brother. He writes that he was tired of the restricted life of his suburban parents and go in search of itself across France. Lili starts eating again and leaves the clinic. However, in her life is nothing like before, she breaks her education and works as a cashier at the supermarket. She is looking for her brother on the basis of track through the country, who place the letters and cards. A support is Thomas, a good friend, falls in love in the course of the search.

When she pretends to spend the holiday in the countryside, but then moves into the place by the sea, from which the last sign of life of her brother has been shipped, Lili discovers her father as he drops one letter, and understand that from the beginning on, he was the one who wrote the letters. She is angry at her brother, who has never registered with her, but finally accepted her father, who has thus probably saved her life behavior.

When you visit the grave of his grandmother Thomas finally discovered by accident the grave by Loïc at the cemetery of the village, where both had grown up. He speaks with the parents of Lili and learns that Loïc, while Lili's holiday, was killed in an accident while climbing a year earlier and the parents have kept secret so before Lili to protect them. Ask Thomas, Lili the truth will continue to withhold. He refers to them as crazy, you say, but actually nothing. At the same time, Lili is in the trunk of her father's guitar of her brother and realizes that he can not be gone, because he had never left it.

Although Lili and Thomas have now both found out what really happened, no one talks to the two the subject, even if almost their entire thinking and acting of the past year turned Loïc. Are you considering to leave the city and somewhere to go to the sea.

Reviews

OE1 writes that it is the " well-hidden potential of lies, deceptions and self-deceptions that makes this film an exciting search puzzle, a family history that tracks everyday pitfalls in trifles and unobtrusive versa outward " and the movie magazine Cinema was, the film was an " award-winning, great family drama played with astonishing resolution ". Lioret had " just a great family drama as a thriller and love story created," the Germany radio culture judges.

The voltage drop in the second part of the film and the end of the film were partially negatively noted. The performance Mélanie Laurent as Lili, however, was celebrated unanimously. The Germany Kultur attested her to embody Lili " with a rare intensity". " Melancholic, almost dreamlike lifted off from the world and with enormous grace " and according to the World, she succeeds " with an incredible intensity and a great economy of representational means to embody " a conversion.

Awards

For her portrayal of Lili got Mélanie Laurent in 2006 the coveted Romy Schneider Prize and in 2007 the César Award for " Best Newcomer " and an Étoile d'Or. Kad Merad Award for Best Supporting Actor; Lioret and Adam received a César nomination for " Best Adapted Screenplay " and won the Étoile d'Or. Julien Boisselier received the 2007 Prix Lumière as best young actor.

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