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'Pardonnez-moi' is a 2006 French film written and directed by Mawenn, starring Mawenn, Pascal Greggory, Hlne de Fougerolles, and Aurlien Recoing. The film was retitled 'Forgive Me' for the English-language international market. In 2007, 'Pardonnez-moi' received two nominations for Csar Awards, France's most prestigious film awards, for Best First Feature Film and Most Promising Actress.[http://cineuropa.org/newsdetail.aspx?lang=en&documentID=73650 "An evening of Cesar Montano's"]

Synopsis



A future mother, Violette, confronts camera in hand with a family secret inspired by her life: her incestuous relationship with her stepfather Paul (Aurlien Recoing), the biological father from her sister Nadia (Mlanie Thierry), whom she will end up wanting both as a father, and as a lover.[https://www.critikat.com/actualite-cine/critique/pardonnez-moi/ Pardonnez-moi], Critikat

The film also evokes the nymphomania and the mythomania of her mother, Lola (Marie-France Pisier), the abuse inflicted by her father, Dominique (Pascal Greggory), the identification with her sister, Billy (Hlne de Fougerolles) and the narcissism of her spouse, Alex (Yannick Soulier).[http://www.vanityfair.fr/culture/cinema/articles/mon-roi-pourquoi-maiwenn-agace-t-elle-autant-/29199 Pourquoi Mawenn agace-t-elle autant ?], Vanity Fair

Influences



The title was to be 'Resilience', in reference to the concept of" Boris Cyrulnik,[https://www.maiwenn.com/presse/pardonnezmoi/bretons.pdf Le breton est ma langue paternelle], Bretons magazine which evokes the reversal of the director's responsibilities, and the question of cognitive diversion, the consequence of a "long-awaited pardon, if happens, is not the one expected".[https://www.lesinrocks.com/cinema/pardonnez-moi-28905-01-01-2006/ Pardonnez-moi], Les Inrocks Mawenn says she prefers the forensic term "scanner" to the literary term autobiography.[https://www.illustre.ch/magazine/maiwenn-famille-cest-celle-quon-se-cree Mawenn: La famille? Cest celle quon se cre], L'Illustr She talks about a fantasized story corresponding to what she would have liked to happen to her and did not have the courage to do in life[https://www.allocine.fr/film/fichefilm-110263/secrets-tournage/ PARDONNEZ-MOI], Allocin>.

Camille Kouchner said it clicked after the director's testimony. Her aunt, Marie-France Pisier, who plays the heroine's mother,[https://www.france.tv/france-5/la-grande-librairie/la-grande-librairie-saison-13/2223691-camille-kouchner-invitee-exceptionnelle.html Camille Kouchner, invite exceptionnelle], Francetv describes the filming as "absolute madness", aggressiveness "distilling an impression of terrible danger", Mawenn unable to put it "in the exact place of his fantasy" but declares not to have feared "the slaps", because as in love, "desire is never humiliating".[https://www.maiwenn.com/presse/pardonnezmoi/premiere.pdf Marie-France Pisier, l'inusable], Premire

Cast



*Mawenn as Violette

*Pascal Greggory as Dominique

*Hlne de Fougerolles as Billy

*Aurlien Recoing as Paul

*Mlanie Thierry as Nadia

*Marie-France Pisier as Lola

Critics



The magazine ELLE, describes the film as "neurotic and fictional psychodrama", Le Parisien, speaks of appropriation, Les Inrockuptibles of self-indulgence, pure and hard narcissism, egotism, half smart, half charmer, who wants to make a documentary, especially not a fiction, anticipating the trial that we will not fail to bring against her, Liberation, of voyeurism, Le Monde, of the troubled delight of autofiction, a technique with which "Ingmar Bergman, who has only ever filmed his intimate life, escapes pathetic infamy" and whose rise is "concomitant with that of reality TV",[https://www.lemonde.fr/cinema/article/2006/11/21/pardonnez-moi-la-camera-comme-therapie-familiale_836890_3476.html "Pardonnez-moi" : la camra comme thrapie familiale], Le Monde Premire, of film-happening unburdened by any varnish, holding investigation, spitting, mourning work and raised fist, Rolling Stone, of staggering family therapy of psychological violence and Tlrama, of fragile, excessive and rough film, brutally sincere.

Analysis



In her book 'Gendered Frames, Embodied Cameras: Varda, Akerman, Cabrera, Calle, and Mawenn' (2016) Cybelle H. McFadden, of the University of North Carolina, explains that the "fake" fills the lack of reality through representation, creating a simulacrum, a copy without the original, in the manner of Jean Baudrillard and Sophie Calle., anticipating the criticisms, and allowing the director to anticipate the "false interview" of Paul, former lover of her mother and father of her half-sister, who serves as an opportunity to reconnect with their family.'Gendered Frames, Embodied Cameras: Varda, Akerman, Cabrera, Calle, and Mawenn' (2016) Cybelle H. McFadden, Fairleigh Dickinson University Press;

For Alistair Fox, Michel Marie, Raphalle Moine, in 'A Companion to Contemporary French Cinema', the film 'Polisse' is simply a more offbeat, more elaborate version of his first film, having explicitly admitted the restorative function of the film.'A Companion to Contemporary French Cinema', d'Alistair Fox, Michel Marie, Raphalle Moine 2015

For Chlo Laborde, from the Geneva High School of Social Work, in 'The White Sheep: Invisible Suffering', Mawenn disturbs like Christian in 'Festen', the family unites against her.Chlo Laborde, 'Les Moutons blancs: une souffrance invisible', Genve, IES/HETS, coll. Pratique.s , 2020, 104 p., prf. Stphane Micaud, postf. Marc Pittet,

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