My Afternoons with Margueritte
- Gérard Depardieu: Germain
- Gisèle Casadesus: Margueritte
- Florian Yven: Germain ( as a child)
- Sophie Guillemin: Annette
- Claire Maurier: Mother of Germain ( an old woman )
- Anne Le Guernec: Mother of Germain ( as a young woman )
- Maurane: Francine
- Patrick Bouchitey: Landremont
- Jean -François Stévenin: Jojo
- François -Xavier Demaison: Gardini
- Mélanie Bernier: Stéphanie
- Régis Laspales: M. Bayle
- Bruno Ricci Marco
- Lyes Salem: Youssef
- Jean -Luc Porraz: The notary
The labyrinth of the words ( original title: La Tête en friche ) is a French film from 2010 based on a novel by Marie -Sabine Roger. The film was directed by Jean Becker, the film stars Gerard Depardieu and Gisèle Casadesus.
Action
The film is about two dissimilar people who come closer through the literature. Margueritte - ' with two "t" ' - 95 years old and formed a " bookworm " who has read a lot in the course of her life and has many books. Germain, 45, is almost illiterate and verliefe regularly and thoroughly in the " labyrinth of words ," he did not have a particularly good auditory memory. The Germain has not, however, prevented from being held all his life a fool. His friends laugh at him regularly, even if they try to save him from greater language -related nonsense. With his mother, who already considered him as a child as a necessary evil and it has given to also clearly understand he still has problems. In flashbacks, we learn that he was humiliated during his school days by a teacher and classmates.
Unlike Margueritte he is a non- reader and his vocabulary is limited accordingly: rather than vulgar formed. But when the two meet and realize that they understand each other well in the park, Margueritte begins to introduce him to the world of the books she reads by him at their meetings from various novels and the novel The Plague and a dictionary gives him. This begins Germain, to be interested in literature and words. After the old lady tells him that she will go blind in the near future and therefore can no longer read to him, he begins with the help of his girlfriend Annette to practice reading or reading aloud. He also supports Margueritte otherwise. As Annette tells him that she is pregnant, and he wants to tell the Margueritte, he learns that this is no longer resident in the nursing home his city. My nephew and his wife have brought them for financial reasons in a shabby old people's home on the Belgian border. Because now Germains mother died and bequeathed him her house and a bit of money, he goes to her and " kidnapped " Margueritte, who is very happy about it.
Criticism
" Gérard Depardieu and Gisèle Casadesus are an admirable occupation of this unequal pair, which brought together the literature. The delicate scholar, he is the dumb block, which is so sparsely furnished inside and out. To them it should not be that Jean Becker's film nevertheless has a more sedative effect. It is the one-dimensional script, inspired by the novel by Marie -Sabine Roger, he proclaims his message with the [sic ] [ sic]: a plea for the dignity of age and the power of books. He does it in a loveliness that is on the story of how a sultry fragrance for women. "
" Director Jean Becker [ ... ] once again achieved a cinematic gem with a once excellent aufspielenden Gérard Depardieu and Gisèle Casadesus remarkable. With plenty of humor and flair for the main characters, he developed an empathetic how charming story about the power of words and the associated joy of life. The original title " La tête en friche " shows more clearly what is at stake in this film, because it means " The unused head ". "