It's Easier for a Camel...
- Valeria Bruni Tedeschi: Federica
- Chiara Mastroianni: Bianca
- Jean -Hugues Anglade Pierre
- Denis Podalydès: Philippe
- Marisa Borini: Mother
- Roberto Herlitzka: Father
- Lambert Wilson: Aurelio
- Pascal Bongard: minister
- Nicolas Briançon: Director
- Yvan Attal: Man in Park
- Emmanuelle Devos: Philippe's wife
It's Easier for a Camel ... is a French film directed by Valeria Bruni Tedeschi and, for the first time directed here. He arrived in France on 16 April 2003 to the cinema, in Germany, he started on April 26, 2004.
Action
The rich Federica looking for her sense of life. Also it can not be classified correctly into their family: her mother only sees the good, while her sister has fallen into the deepest of depressions. They also harassed her boyfriend Pierre, because he finally wants to have children. She turns for help to a priest, because they do not know if she really wants this. This makes them familiar with the parable of Jesus, which, however, does not help her, "It is easier for a camel to go through a needle's eye than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God. " From now on she goes with her Jaguar in Paris. Starting from its prestigious 16th arrondissement, she visits her fiance alternately Pierre and her terminally ill father.
Reviews
The " fun, playful as well as thoughtful film" is a locally " amusing and light-hearted, sometimes bold, but then again egocentric - autobiographical study," ask the questions about the meaning of life. The director is rarely convincing balance between " documentary-like and playful scenes ," says the lexicon of international film.
Hans -Dieter Seidel wrote on 25 February 2004 in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Valeria Bruni Tedeschi go in this loose dance scene with " effortless ease " to work, as the push of about flashbacks of happy childhood days in the confused everyday Federica. The tender moments with the mortally ill father are full of feeling, but " far from any sentimentality ."
Melanie courtship praises in cutting the film as a whole, but regrets that it was unclear " what key message the director wanted to convey with their history. "
Awards
- Louis- Delluc Prize 2003: award for the best first work
- César 2004: Valeria Bruni Tedeschi nomination for the best first
- Sindacato Nazionale Giornalisti Cinematografici Italiani 2004: Nastro d' Argento a nomination for Best New Director ( Valeria Bruni Tedeschi )
- Moscow International Film Festival 2004: Nominated for a Golden St. George