With Love... from the Age of Reason

  • Sophie Marceau: Marguerite / Margaret Flore
  • Marton Csokas: Malcolm
  • Michel Duchaussoy: Merignac
  • Jonathan Zaccaï: Philibert Bakary
  • Emmanuelle Grönvold: De Lorca
  • Juliette Chappey: Marguerite as a child
  • Thierry Hancisse Mathieu
  • Déborah Marique: Marguerite's mother
  • Roméo Lebeaut: Philibert as a child
  • Jarod Legrand: Mathieu as a child
  • Alexis Michalik: Margaret's assistant
  • Raphaël Devedjian: Simon
  • Emmanuel Lemire: Marguerite's father

Forget Me Not ( Original title: L' Âge de raison ) is a French-Belgian comedy drama starring Sophie Marceau from the year 2010.

Action

Margaret Flore is a successful business woman who always manages to keep its position thanks to female role models like Marie Curie, Maria Callas and Coco Chanel. As a hard-hitting manager, she sold nuclear power plants to the Chinese and relies on her feminine charms. For her 40th birthday an old notary named Merignac appear in the office building their company. He has traveled from the provinces to Lyon, to hand over a packet of letters Margaret. At the age of seven years, when they were still called Marguerite, Margaret wrote the letters to herself with her ​​parents and her brother Mathieu had lived in the small village of Saou and identified with Merignac that he her letters to her 40th birthday can get. The letters they should remember the things you were as a child at heart. In the first letter Margaret is a list of occupations that interested at the time. So she dreamed of a vet for whales, Saints, Mars researcher, wedding cake baker or princess to be. After a failed business lunches takes Margaret, who is with her coming from England colleague Malcolm, the other letters at hand. In the letter, they should open, if they should become a princess is " liar ". In another congratulated her her childish I to have become Mars researcher.

Margaret and Malcolm must finally travel to Shanghai to complete a major business. There, Margaret gets the next packet. When they look at the photos therein, Margaret remembers how her father once left the family after he failed professionally and seizure of all valuables had become inevitable. Her mother had even sell Marguerites clarinet in order to pay the bills. Margaret had always repressed her impoverished childhood and is determined to not have any more time to waste on unpleasant memories.

Back in France after traveling Margaret Saou and Merignac offers 5,000 euros, so he stops so kind to send her letters. Merignac who has read all her letters, wants it not be dissuaded. In another letter is the talk of the wedding with her ​​childhood friend Philibert. As children, Marguerite and Philibert had dug into an old well - in the hope of being able to throw through the hole to the starving children in Africa bread. Without Malcolm decision to give Margaret goes one day at a cave with paintings of prehistoric man. As a child she wanted to meet there to this very day with Philibert. When they meet again there, Margaret briefly to kiss the need Philibert. She leaves him then, however, rebuffed and runs back home. Then she visits her brother Mathieu, whom she has not seen for many years. However, as Mathieu has the impression that they only visited him to talk about their letters, he responded angrily.

Philibert finally appears in Margaret's office building in order to give her a letter. Merignac, located since a stroke in the hospital, asked him to. It is the last letter. Because her mother had hard in a shoe factory must work to bring themselves and their two children make ends meet, Marguerite once came to the realization that money is very important. So she decided to always be in all the best and to make a career. While Malcolm without bringing the business with the Chinese in the bag, Margaret travels again after Saou to look in the old well for treasure, whom she had once buried there with Philibert. In the rubble of the well she finds a box with another letter in which Marguerite her adult I asks to save them. Margaret finally realizes what it is really important in life. She gives Malcolm a little race car that he wanted to have a little boy forever, and writes to her brother Mathieu a letter. In it she tells him that she was expecting a child to the joy of Malcolm. Instead of continuing to make a career, Margaret travels prefer to Africa to build a fountain with Philibert and promote the local agriculture. In the African desert she finally opens the letter, they should open, if it does not become what she envisaged as a child. Moved to tears reading Margaret therein, the words " I love you".

Background

Forget Me Not was shot from September to October 2009. The budget amounted to 7.2 million euros. In the Drôme département municipalities Saou, Charols, Soyans, Aouste Crest and served as filming locations. In Lyon, the Centre de Congrès was repeatedly the scene of the film. The scenes in Africa originated in Morocco.

The premiere of Forget Me Not was held in Paris on July 4, 2010. Around 480,000 people watched the film in French cinemas. In Germany the film was first shown on November 5, 2010 at the French Film Festival in Tübingen -Stuttgart. On 23 December 2010 he entered the German cinemas. In June 2011, he was released on DVD.

Film Music

The film score was composed by Cyrille Aufort. Featured in the film are also:

  • Move on up - Curtis Mayfield
  • Concerto for Clarinet, K. 622 - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
  • Neopolitan Dreams - Lisa Mitchell
  • Sue - Lisa Mitchell

Reviews

According to the Cinema was " self-knowledge of the tough business woman needs to stop and back to basics, to finally find their happiness, [ ... ] an almost annoying cliche ". In this respect, "even, La Boum' legend set Sophie Marceau limits." It concluded: " Herziger, but also quite bland self-discovery trip between melancholy and wit. " Prisma came to a positive judgment. Director Yann Samuell has " skillfully (though not always realistic ) " shown " how can help memories and good ideas of childhood, to make life better." The " charming, strong playing lead actress Sophie Marceau " it was thanks also that this " Samuell also enchanting succeeded " is.

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