Don’t worry, I’m fine – Wikipedia

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Do not worry I’m fine (I’m fine, don’t worry) is a French feature film from 2006 by Philippe Lioret, who describes his film adaptation of the novel of the same name by Olivier Adam as a “stirring, intelligent emotional thriller”.

After her return from the holidays, the 19-year-old Lili learns that her brother Loïc had gone away after a violent argument with the father of home. The equanimity with which her parents accept his disappearance paired with the fact that her brother, whom she had a close relationship, does not report to her, fall into severe depression. Her condition worsens increasingly and when she finally no longer eats, she is instructed to a psychiatric clinic.

Her condition improves when she finally gets letters from her brother. He writes that he was fed up with his parents’ constricted vowel life and is looking for France. Lili starts eating again and leaves the clinic. However, there is nothing more in your life as before; She breaks off her training and works as a cashier in the supermarket. She starts looking for her brother based on the trail that left his letters and cards. A support is Thomas, a good friend that she falls in love with in the course of the search.

When she pretends to spend the holidays in the country, but then drives into the place by the sea from which her brother’s last sign of life came, Lili discovers her father as he throws a letter and she understands that he understands all of them Wrote letters. She is angry with her brother, who has never contacted her, but finally accepts the father’s behavior, who probably saved her life with it.

When visiting his grandmother’s grave, Thomas finally discovered the grave of Loïc in the cemetery of the place, in which both grew up. He talks to Lili’s parents and learns that Loïc was fatally an accident when Lili’s vacation, and the parents kept this secret from Lili to protect them. They ask Thomas to keep lili with the truth. He declares her crazy, but actually says nothing. At the same time, Lili finds her brother’s guitar in her father’s trunk and realizes that he could not have gone because he would never have left it behind.

Although Lili and Thomas have both found out what happened, neither of the two speaks to the topic, even if almost their complete thinking and acting of the past year has revolved around Loïc. They are considering leaving the city and going to the sea somewhere.

Ö1 writes that it is the “well -hidden potential of lies, deceptions and self -delights that make this film an exciting search puzzle, a family history that tracks down everyday pitfalls and unobtrusively turns out” [2] And the cinema magazine Cinema found that the film was a “award -winning, great played family drama with a striking resolution”. [3] Lioret has “created a great family drama like a thriller and love film,” judges the Deutschlandradio Kultur. [4]

The sloping voltage in the second part of the film and its end was sometimes negatively noted. [5] The performance of Mélanie Laurent as Lili, on the other hand, was unanimously celebrated. Deutschlandradio Kultur attested to her to embody the figure “with a rare intensity”, “melancholy, almost fantastically withdrawn from the world and with an enormous lovation.” And according to the world, she succeeds in “with an incredible intensity and a great economy of the presentation Medium to embody a change ”. [6]

Prisma notes that “the premise of Philippe Lioret’s directorial work is not 100 % coherent”, but good actors and intensive moments created an exciting work between the drama and thriller. [7]

In 2006, Mélanie Laurent received the coveted Romy Schneider Prize for her representation of the Lili and in 2007 the César as the “best young actress” and a Étoile d’Or. Kad Merad was recognized as the best supporting actor; Lioret and Adam received a césar nomination for the “best adapted script” and won the Étoile d’Or. Julien Boisselier received the Prix Lumières in 2007 as the best young actor.

  1. ↑ Education certificate for Do not worry I’m fine . Voluntary self -control of the film industry, July 2013 (PDF; test number: 109 307 V).
  2. ↑ “Ö1-Inforadio” @first @2 Template: dead link/oe1.orf.at ( Page no longer available, search in Webarchiven ) Info: The link was automatically marked as a defect. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this note.
  3. ↑ Do not worry I’m fine. In: cinema. Accessed on April 10, 2021 .
  4. ↑ “Deutschlandradio Kultur”
  5. ↑ “Art” ( Memento of the Originals from March 5, 2008 in Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been used automatically and not yet checked. Please check original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this note. @first @2 Template: Webachiv/Iabot/www.artte.tv
  6. ↑ “Welt Online”
  7. ↑ Do not worry I’m fine. In: prisma. Accessed on April 10, 2021 .