It Only Happens to Others

This always happen to other people (AKA: Ça n'arrive qu'aux autres ) is a French-Italian drama film by Nadine Trintignant with Catherine Deneuve and Marcello Mastroianni in the year 1971.

Action

Catherine and Marcello live withdrawn from the outside world and leave barely their apartment. You were once a happy young couple and led both professionally and personally a good life. The birth of her daughter Camille had made ​​their fortunes completely. But when the baby died of sudden infant death, it became impossible for Catherine and Marcello to continue her life. Always remember how her nanny Marguerite one day the lifeless Camille brought to them and how they then drove with her child in a hospital. When the doctors could do nothing more for the infant, Catherine suffered a nervous breakdown and Marcello tried to comfort her. Then they began to shun their relatives and friends until they completely blocked off from the outside world. Catherine pulled the curtains, which henceforth also darkened the apartment on the day. By candlelight they now spend most of their time in bed or sitting on the floor.

Marguerite brings them one morning with breakfast, a white rabbit over, Catherine and Marcello to cheer. My friend Xavier finally comes over and also cheer them temporarily on playing a charade. However Oversized photos of Camille remember Catherine and Marcello always at their loss, which is why they are unable to overcome their grief.

But one day, they decide to go to the country. You wake up the next morning in the straw of a barn and then to join a herd of sheep. At sunset they go alone for a walk and hang their thoughts. As they drive their car through the area, they pay attention to a girl in a white dress. Follow the girl in a village where they encounter a wedding party. Spontaneously they are invited by the revelers on a sip of wine. A little girl, also dressed in white wants to play with a white kitten. Catherine runs after the girl, who then gives her a radiant smile. A young man asks Catherine finally to dance. While Catherine can be guided by him, Marcello dances with the bride. Such hilarious she had once danced with Camille in her arms. Drink, laugh along with the other guests and celebrate - until a storm begins. At dawn Marcello Catherine photographed with the musicians still present and a girl. A photo of Camille, which holds Marcello suddenly in his hand, the memory of the death of her child in Catherine and Marcello evokes again.

Background

Director Nadine Trintignant processed with This happens only to others. 's Death her ​​daughter Pauline, who came from her marriage to actor Jean- Louis Trintignant and had died of sudden infant death syndrome in 1969 The film is dedicated to Pauline.

This happens only the other was premiered on 13 January 1971 at the Paris Theater in New York. On October 29, 1971, the film came in the French cinema. In Germany, it was first shown on 10th August 1972 and released in 2008 on DVD.

Criticism

Was AH Weiler of the New York Times that Nadine Trintignant " the superficiality of a soap opera ' not quite been able to avoid, yet it has implemented a clever ' sympathetic analysis of a frightening topic " artistic. Of his own sorrow out she had delivered " a bittersweet drama ", "the as life itself, may not be perfect, but mentally mature and sometimes touching ."

France Italy 1971 in film Screenplay Claude Pinoteau Film score Michel Polnareff Jean-Louis Trintignant
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