Films A to Z
Ricky
- Runtime:
- 90 min.
- Year of Production:
- 2009
- Country:
- Frankreich/ Italien
- Director:
- Cast:
- Alexandra Lamy
Sergi Lopez
Mélusine Mayance
Arthur Peyret
André Wilms
Jean-Claude Bolle-Reddat
Julien Haurant
Eric Forterre
Hakim Romatif
John Arnold
Maryline Even
Chaterine Jabot
Marc Susini
Pierre Fabiani - Production Company:
- Eurowide Film Production
- Berlinale Section:
- Competition
- Berlinale Category:
- Feature Film
When Katie, an ordinary woman, meets Paco, an ordinary man, something wonderful and magical happens: they fall in love. But then, their love for each other produces an unusual baby, Ricky.
The starting point for this film was a short story by English novelist Rose Tremain. François Ozon’s screen adaptation is a ‘fantastical’ family film: “The story is very short and its mood reminded me of ROSETTA by the Dardenne brothers. The characters are poor, underprivileged white people living in a trailer park in the heart of the United States. Because of the setting, I wasn’t sure how to approach the story, how to make it mine. And although I like the way an extraordinary, amazing event disrupts the characters’ otherwise bleak existence, the fantasy element frightened me. But then I realised that what touched me about the story wasn’t so much the fantasy element as the way it talks about family, our place in it, and how a new member – a new partner or a new child – can shake up the balance. There’s an irony in Rose Tremain’s writing that corresponds to my own, and I wanted to preserve that in the film. Whenever the story gets too unreal or bizarre, elements of humour and distance come in to release the tension and make the scene work”.
BIOGRAFIE François Ozon
Born in Paris, France in 1967, this director and screenwriter studied at La Fémis film school and is now one of the most renowned filmmakers in his country. His work has already screened in the Berlinale Competition four times, with the ensemble cast of one of his most successful films, the comedy 8 femmes , winning the Silver Bear in 2002. In 2012 he was a member of the International Jury. He has made four films with Charlotte Rampling who this year is being presented with the Honorary Golden Bear for her lifetime achievement; Sous le Sable and Swimming Pool are both screening in the Homage .
-Berlinale.de
FILMOGRAFIE François Ozon (selection)
2021 Peter von Kant
2017 Der andere Liebhaber
2013 Young and Beautiful
2009 Ricky
2009 Rückkehr ans Meer
2007 Angel
2007 Schau mir in die Augen, Kleiner
2005 Die Zeit die bleibt
2003 Swimming Pool
2002 8 Frauen
2000 Unter dem Sand
1999 Ein kriminelles Paar
1999 Gouttes d'eau sur pierres brulantes