Pardonnez-moi

• Maïwenn: Violet
• Pascal Greggory, Father Dominique
• Hélène de Fougerolles: Billy
• Aurélien Recoing: Paul
• Mélanie Thierry: Nadia
• Marie -France Pisier: Mother Lola
• Yannick Soulier: Alex
• Marie -Sophie L.: psychiatrist
• Franck Bussi: Camera seller
• Rita Dalle: Violet girlfriend
• Louise -Anne Hippeau: Toys seller
• Camille de Sablet: Billy's girlfriend
• Abdelkader Belkhodja: grandfather

Forgive me is a French social drama of Maïwenn from the year 2006.

Action

Violet proportion to their family and especially to her father, Dominique is deeply disturbed. He beat her as a child, often for trifles, while the rest of the family ignored the incident or over played. Violet is now grown up, psychological treatment and processed their experiences creatively. For the performance of her Einpersonenstücks in which they want to handle the relationship with her father, come 300 people, including her sister and her father Billy. After premiering both appear in Violet wardrobe, but her father can hardly say anything to her. The piece he was good, but builds on the role of passive spectator no access to Violette on. She realizes that the piece has not helped her attempt to process the events of the past.

Violette, who is at the beginning of her pregnancy, decides, during the next few months to make a film about her family for her unborn child. Your psychiatrist speaks her well, but Violet is not sure if the woman is not too close to her in order to be able to judge objectively. She breaks off the treatment therefore. With her ​​new movie camera she makes her first recording attempts, so she confronts her boyfriend Alex have an abortion with the question of why they have their child in the previous year. Alex refuses to answer. The conversation with the father runs sobering, his future grandchild it does not really matter.

After its premiere piece Violette was asked by journalist Paul for an interview. It turns out that it actually was not about Paul. Rather, he opened Violette in the conversation that he and her mother Lola had an affair once and the father of Violet 's little sister Nadia is. He shows Violet a letter, announcing in the Lola to want to return to Dominique despite pregnancy. Shortly before faced a celebration Violette her mother in front of camera with her knowledge and Lola admits that Nadia is not Dominique's daughter. The Confession turn plays before Violette Nadia and takes their response to. Nadia cries while Dominique responds a little later on the opening motionless. A few days later, Violette celebrating her birthday with the family. She films like the last days every event, and demonstratively pushes on the ten years in which she was beaten by her father. She receives no response, with which they could work. A little later it rings and Paul stands before the door. Violette has invited him and introduces him to his daughter Nadia. The hatred of the mother is discharged to Violet, but Billy soon reflected on their side, after recognizing how much Violet suffers from the silence of the parents to the violence in the family. Violet is suing the father claims to have never liked them, but he brings it not ready to show emotions. At the end of Paul and Violet are left alone. In the following years Paul and Nadia begin despite the abrupt onset, build a father -daughter relationship. Paul confesses turn Violette, that he had fallen in love with her, but she has him back wirsch. She is expecting a child of Alex, with whom she is together and happy for five years.

Violet is still trying to work up the troubled relationship with her father. With her ​​friend buys a large toy doll which she prepared. While the girlfriend behind the camera, confronted Violette her father with the doll she has as himself dressed as a child. It proposes the doll, so that a red paint bomb is destroyed in the hair and the doll " bleeds ". Another scene to simulate how Violette einnässte as a child with fear as the father yelled at because of a nullity. Dominique remains all the time rigid. Only when Violet and her friend are gone, he begins to cry.

Violet pregnancy has progressed and she thinks Alex over about a wedding after. Alex rejects this; in the course of conversation, he makes the case that they have their experiences of childhood exaggerated or concocted, but no talk of her sisters so about the father as. Outraged she goes. A year later, Violet mother of a daughter has become. It is at the intersection of their film and is still trying to persuade her father to repentance. The mechanically she asks to be excused, but can not say that he regretted his behavior. To feel the pain of that time, Violet smashes a bottle on her head. Then she goes on a fair and makes her a long time to her psychiatrist. This makes it clear that Dominique will never ask for forgiveness. You should rather try to forgive him. Because of their suffering, the artistic energy was created, she advances, she had a clue that it allow her on to take her father very much. Violet tries to establish a new perspective on the events. She realizes that she can be happy with Alex, he is her daughter but a loving father. At the end she manages with her family - including Paul - to stand in a group photo and smile.

Production

Forgive me was the feature film directorial debut of Maïwenn who had previously performed with I'm an actress already in a short film directed by. The film was " based on personal experience " with her family, she also processed in other films. For the film, there was no classical writer, but only one scene preset with some of the dialog. Parts of the film was converted into " documentary [r ] Home video aesthetics ," what makes this film look very authentic. The shooting took Forgive me place in 2005, with the role of Nadia was originally supposed to play Sara Forestier; it was replaced a few days before shooting began by Mélanie Thierry.

Forgive me ran on 22 November 2006 in France and was shown on 9 February 2007 in the German cinemas. He ran on 26 October 2011 arte for the first time on German television, which he subtitled, and not synchronized, was shown.

Criticism

The filmdienst found that the film " a moving family story [ told ] and [... ] a shambles [ faced ], which is created by unconditional search for truth. " For Cinema was Forgive me a " pseudo- documentary, which goes to the kidneys ".

Awards

Forgive me, was nominated for two César Awards 2007: Maïwenn ever received a nomination in the category Best Young Actress and Best debut.