Mademoiselle Chambon
- Vincent Lindon: Jean
- Sandrine Kiberlain: Véronique Chambon
- Aure Atika: Anne- Marie, wife of Jean
- Jean -Marc Thibault: Father of Jean
- Arthur Le Houérou Jérémy
- Michelle Goddet: headmistress
- Bruno Lochet: Jeans colleague
- Abdellah Moundy: Jeans colleague
- Anne Houdy: Employees of funeral home
Mademoiselle Chambon is a French romantic drama by Stephane Brize from the year 2009. He is loosely based on the novel by Eric Holder.
Mademoiselle Chambon is the substitute teacher of Jeremy, the son of Jean Mason. Meanwhile, minor everyday gets confused, as he reports in school about his profession and develop tender feelings between him and the teacher.
Action
The assembly line worker Anne -Marie and Jean Maurer have a little son, Jeremy. As Anne -Marie is on sick leave due to back problems, Jean picks up his son from school. So he learns his new teacher Véronique Chambon know who taught for a year to help out in the school of the Southern French town. Jean and Véronique see now several times after the end of the school day, and one day she asks him if he will not tell on Saturday in front of the class about his profession. Jean says hesitantly. At the weekend he knows the children to be interested in his work, and also Véronique is fascinated by the way he talks about his work. After the end of the hour she asks him for a leaky window for advice. He looks at the window on site at, is that there needs to be completely replaced, and receives from it the mandate to do so. When he has finished the work that he wants to let her know, but she has fallen asleep. He looks around at her apartment and discovers a photo of her with violin. When she is awake, she played for him at his request, a piece before, and he is fascinated. Later he sees her again when she wants to buy paint for the window frames. He advises and follows her into her apartment. She lends him some CDs with the piece she had played him. When they listen to another piece that Véronique like very much, both eventually kissing and hugging stick until the music stops.
A few days later Véronique finds a note from Jean, on which he writes that he think of her. Jean learns shortly thereafter by his wife that she is pregnant. As Véronique Jean visited on his construction site, he maintains distance now. She tells him that they have the prospect of being permanently employed at Jeremy's school, and intend to settle in the place. Then you replied Jean, that his wife was expecting a child, which freezes Véronique and causes for departure. At home, Jean reacts irritated now, at work intemperate and erratic. He calls Véronique later and speaks her on her answering machine that he was sorry. Although Jean knows that Véronique is home, she does not answer the phone.
Daily life goes on, and at the end of the school year, says Véronique permanent position from. A few days before their departure, Jean brings her return the disks, which he had borrowed, and invites them to play at the birthday party of his father in a few days violin. She hesitates and questioned his request, but eventually comes. At the ceremony, she plays an emotional piece, and Anne -Marie suspects in jeans reaction that both have feelings for each other. Jean travels Véronique home, shows her before but his favorite place where you have a wide view into the distance. He learns that she will depart early the next morning. At her apartment door, she waits for him, and they both end up sleeping together. He promises to come with her. The next day, she waits at the station for him. Jean has actually packed his bag, entering the station, but remains motionless on the stairs to the platform, as long until the train departed. Then he returns to his family and sits in silence to his wife at the table. Her gaze falls on the bag, but she starts a conversation with him, as if nothing had happened.
Production
Mademoiselle Chambon was shot in Marseille and Pertuis. He was born in CinemaScope, because this format the film depth and are " the simple act one, epic ' dimension' of the director Brizé opinion. The movie was released on 14 October 2009 in the French and Belgian cinemas and was shown on August 12, 2010 in the German cinemas. The first was Mademoiselle Chambon October 2, 2011 for the first time on German television. In February 2011, the film was released on DVD in Germany; French DVD premiere was on 24 February 2010.
Background
For credits the song Quel joli temps by Barbara runs. The tune that plays to Véronique Jean in her apartment on the violin, La Valse Triste by Franz von Vecsey; in the piece at the birthday party is Salut d' Amour by Edward Elgar. Sandrine Kiberlain learned for the film five months to play the violin, even if the actual recording was recorded subsequently.
Vincent Lindon and Sandrine Kiberlain have been married since 1998, living at the time of the shooting but already separated. "The film is basically a running in the opposite direction slow motion of this liaison, relationship therapy in the rearview mirror ," the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung was therefore in their film meeting.
Criticism
The time called the plot is nothing new, and the film itself " not even staged spectacular. " Mademoiselle Chambon is, however, "the most beautiful classic actresses cinema." Also for the filmdienst Mademoiselle Chambon was a " simple story, straight and unadorned ." The film was " anti- amour fou' film par excellence. He avoids any stormy loud emotional chaos and instead focuses extensively the tacit agreement in love, the unspoken and unlived. "
Kino-zeit.de designated Mademoiselle Chambon as a " film about the hesitation, the cautious keys on restraint and possibly even fear", while the Frankfurter Rundschau, was that in the movie about going " what happens if someone loves double. "
Awards
Mademoiselle Chambon won a César in 2010 for Best Adapted Screenplay ( Stephane Brize, Florence Vignon ). Sandrine Kiberlain was also nominated for a César for Best Actress, while Aure Atika received a César Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress. On the International Istanbul Film Festival, the film won a FIPRESCI Prize and the Special Jury Prize.
At the Independent Spirit Awards, the film was nominated in 2011 for an Independent Spirit Award for Best Foreign Language Film.