Ponette
- Victoire Thivisol: Ponette
- Delphine Schiltz: Dolphins
- Matiaz Bureau Caton: Matiaz
- Léopoldine Serre: Ada
- Marie Trintignant: Mother
- Xavier Beauvois: Father
- Claire Nebout: aunt
Ponette is a French film from 1996 by Jacques Doillon. The film tells the drama of four years Ponette ( Victoire Thivisol ), which sinks into deepest mourning following the accidental death of her mother.
The actress Victoire Thivisol was awarded as the youngest winner of the Coppa Volpi at the International Film Festival of Venice.
Action
Ponettes mother dies after a car accident, she even survived with an arm injury. Your desperate father brings them to their aunt and their children, dolphins and Matiaz, to the country. Ponette stays there apparently left to themselves mostly. Her aunt tries to comfort her by telling her that her mother had in paradise, and they would see her again there. However ponette interprets the resurrection of Jesus, from which they also told, according to their current needs, and is then convinced that her mother would also be resurrected and immediately. You wait all day, that she finally comes back and cries desperately that they can so terribly long in coming. Your atheist father abused hard because of this behavior, but is not able to give her comfort. Then you get them at a boarding school, where the two children are her aunt. Again, it largely remains themselves and leave the weird religious ideas of the other children, including nonsensical tests of courage that they should make a " child of God " so that she can talk with her mother; they are also not helpful, only leads to renewed disappointment Ponettes, so they want to die, she asks Matiaz to kill them. Finally, she runs away, and travels alone to the mother, where they actually appear in her imagination grave, and you say resolutely that they no longer mourn, but happy to live their lives. When her father to pick her up, she tells him that her mother was there, but will not come back, and the first step in overcoming the grief seems done.
Criticism
Encyclopedia of the International film: ". A sensitive and poetry full of film that takes a childlike naive perspective in order to address questions of faith and ideas of God In all parsimony staging an impressive, radical contribution on faith. "
Artechock: "As much as the idea Doillon convinced to show how to deal with the death of childlike perspective, questionable is the Dialoglastigkeit of the film is not that the dialogue would not be credible only occurs at the seriousness of the games with which Ponette faith. converts her mother's return, characterized in the background. "
Kino- time: "With a delicate sense of sensibilities, moods, and childlike worldview Jacques Doillon [ ... ] made a skilful yet touching film about a deadly serious issue on which, ultimately, beyond current heartache calculations, in which the director and screenwriter largely dispensed with, hardly an eye can stay dry. "