Marvin will risk everything to reinvent himself, and with the help of isabelle huppert. He fled his family, the tyranny of his father, the resignation of his mother. He has escaped intolerance, rejection and the bullying he suffered from being singled out as different. Reinventing marvin 2016, france, 115min reinventing marvin is a tale about difference and how we construct new destinies for ourselves as we grow up and inevitably change. After a childhood of homophobic bullying in his small french village, a young man discovers drama and flees to paris to live life on his own terms. Marvin, who becomes martin, will risk everything to create this show that represents so much more than success. Reinventing marvin french helmer anne fontaines uneven but affecting comingout study serves up drama in a couple of senses. He has escaped his fathers tyranny and his mothers resignation. A compelling and searing chronicle by anne fontaine the innocents. Marvin grows up amid a gruff and boorish family in a french village. From the acclaimed french director of the innocents and coco before chanel is the latest feature inspired by true events from anne fontaine.
He has escaped a little village in the countryside. He has fled his small village in the vosges mountains, escaping his family his fathers tyranny and his mothers resignation. Find where to watch reinventing marvin in new zealand. With a stellar cast including rising stars finnegan oldfield and jules porier and isabelle huppert in a cameo role as herself, reinventing marvin tells the story of an impoverished boys journey as he escapes his village to make something of. A coming out and coming of age narrative about one young man who struggles to find his place anywhere in the world. Reinventing marvin is an encouragement to rise above it. With the support of his teacher, marvin discovers his thirst for theatre, and its transformative power of becoming someone else. Reinventing marvin features gagaoolala find your story.
Martin clement is about to give the performance of his life. He has fled his small village in the vosges mountains, escaping from his familyfrom his fathers tyranny and his mothers resignation. In the end, with his success, comes acceptance from his family but, if his family now need marvin, does he still need them. You have to turn to the brief interview with director anne fontaine that is the sole extra on this dvd release to discover the real source of her film reinventing marvin. Anne fontaine stages her film in two different periods of young marvins life. Marvin runs the entire gauntlet of victimhood within the.
It screened in the horizons section of the 74th venice international film festival on 2 september 2017, and won the queer lion. Refusing to be victimised, marvin moves to paris to reinvent himself. The film will impress anyone who wants high quality work in all departments but particularly those who were bullied or are being bullied at school for their sexuality. Reinventing marvin reminds us how terrible and unaccepting people can be, although the target audience of the film is most likely already aware of this. As a child, young marvin bijoux was bullied by homophobic classmates at school and. Its a fiery film, passionate in character and introspection, visceral in choreography, elegiac in selfdiscovery. Marvin, a gay actor in paris who is struggling to write and perform a oneman theatrical show about his childhood. Marvin sits dumbstruck on the side of his school swimming pool, while older, more developed boys flip and play like dolphins his home life in a nondescript village in the countryside is also painted with painfully detailed despair. The festival offers public screenings of films with no israeli distribution, meetings with local as well as foreign filmmakers, panel discussions and special events. Marvin is even helped by legendary isabelle huppert played effortlessly by herself in staging his play. A young man leaves home to express his identity through acting in this comingofage drama from anne fontaine the innocents.
Marvin bijou finnegan oldfield, a young gay boy from a workingclass family in a small french village, suffers constant bullying at school and home for being too sensitive and too feminine. He meets people just like himself there, befriends an older gay couple who provide him support that he never got. Marvin bijou has escaped the little village in the countryside where he grew up. Though fontaine and pierre trividics screenplay is credited as original, it draws heavily fontaine calls it a free interpretation on edouard louiss bestselling 2014 autobiographical novel the end of. Artistically inclined, with a nascent attraction to other boys in his class, hes the victim of. This makes him victim to forceful bullying, both at school and within the confines of his impoverished home, making his situation unbearable. He has escaped his family, his fathers tyranny and his mothers resignation. A compelling and searing chronicle of a young gay man leaving the life he has known in order to become someone else. In the end, reinventing marvin is a tender portrait of a young man on the brink of extinction, who defies the odds and make a steady ground for himself in the world. Through the life he encounters and the people he meets leads him on this path to reinvention in cinemas friday. But the one teacher who sees him for who he is, not who others think he should be, provides the key to him finding his talent and confidence. Against all odds, he somehow manages to find allies. Reinventing marvin tells the true story of marvin bijou, a boy from a workingclass family in a small village, who suffers constant bullying at school and home for being different too sensitive and too feminine. Recommendation engine sorted out touching, homoerotic, captivating and disturbing films with plots about gay, gay sex, gay kiss, male nudity, gay lead character, gay relationship and lgbt mostly in drama, romance and comedy genres.
Did you win acclaimed french drama reinventing marvin on. Nocturama star finnegan oldfield and child debutante jules porier portray the titular character. Reinventing marvin is a compelling and searing chronicle of a young gay man leaving the life he has known in order to become someone else. A chance encounter with a drama teacher opens the doors to a world that offers him the chance to escape his situation. How marvin extricates himself from his deadend origins to connect with his sexuality in paris circles where he can forge an itboy career in the theatre is the creatively told, worthwhile but. Something reinventing marvin captures with visceral accuracy, is the first stirrings of desire we all go through in our adolescence. From the director of coco before chanel and the innocents and starring femmetourdeforce isabelle huppert, reinventing marvin is a compelling and searing chronicle of a young gay man leaving the life he has known in order to become someone else.
Following marvin into his midtwenties as a theatre student in paris, fontaine presents a richly layered tale about identity building and. Reinventing marvin cleverly uses flashbacks that takes the story from his childhood to him discovering a new life in paris where he truly discovers who he is. Isabelle huppert, playing isabelle huppert, dancing to house music. Cineuropa is the first european portal dedicated to cinema and audiovisual in 4 languages. Most similar movies to reinventing marvin the list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Like her previous film the innocents lff2016, reinventing marvin showcases director anne fontaines skill at balancing. Bullied at school, handsome marvin flees his boorish family for drama school in paris, where he is nurtured by a variety of mentors including isabelle huppert. Reinventing marvin book tickets online vue cinemas. Unable to fit in at school, marvins life was changed forever when he discovered his passion for the theatre. The film premiered in englishlanguage territories under the title reinventing marvin. Buy cinema tickets for reinventing marvin bfi london. For anyone whos read edouard louiss 2014 novel the end of eddy, a gutwrenching account of growing up poor and gay in rural france, reinventing marvin will feel like a. Marvin will risk everything to reinvent himself, and with the help of isabelle huppert, he might just succeed. Marvin is a puzzle to his family and bullied by other boys.
In reinventing marvin, director anne fontaine focuses on a young man coming of age, and coming out, in a film that stars finnegan oldfield, isabelle huppert and. Also unusual is the structure, which has flashes forward until grownup marvins story gradually predominates. Marvin is a 2017 french drama film directed by anne fontaine. With daily news, interviews, data bases, indepth investigations into the audiovisual industry, cineuropa aims at promoting the european film industry throughout the world. Yet if nothing else, this film gives us one thing we can be thankful for. It paints a portrait of dysfunctional life in a poor french village where life, and people, are harsh. Tlvfest, tel avivs international lgbt film festival is a unique annual event taking place each june at the tel aviv cinematheque.
Yet, i cant help but wish that some of the arthouse techniques were skipped in favor of more traditional character development. Finnegan oldfield, gregory gadebois, isabelle huppert, anne. Reinventing marvin, winner of the queer lion award at the venice international film festival, explores the painful relationship a young gay man has with his past. He is a quiet, sensitive and artistic fifteenyearold with an unwitting attraction to other boys. With no support from his family, marvin ran away from home to chase his dreams of becoming an actor.
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