What is it about?
Partly autobiographical, My Love Affair With Marriage tells the story of Zelma. A smart child surrounded by fairy tales, a complicated teenager crushed by someone else’s gaze, a woman confronted with her own femininity… They have been told since childhood that true love will solve all problems. But what if he was the ultimate source?
Portrait of a young girl(s) on fire
Far from being isolated, Zelma (voiced by Dagmara Dominczyk) has many women in her career, starting with director Signe Baumann. “I have been married twice and both marriages have collapsed dramatically,” he says. I wanted to show how social structures and hierarchies are reflected in neural connections and the alchemy that happens when you fall in love or fall out of love. By articulating my personal story around scientific findings, I hope to help women explore their own intimate relationships.“
It is that My love affair with marriage, love is primarily a matter of chemistry. As Zelma falls in love with boys and assimilates her experiences into the tales that haunted her, her little inner voice, the narrator named Biology, clearly reveals the hormonal background of the process. Thus, great love and soul mates become subjects of scientific presentations in a way that is not rocket science, where the limbic system, neural connections and cerebral cortex replace the traditional love vocabulary.
If the discrepancy between the romanticism of fantasy and biological reality seems comical at first glance, it is more than instructive and brilliantly engages with social questions. Sign Bauman. Because the source of all these hormonal upheavals is the brain, at the center of a veritable storm of information and codes. “When she is a child, Zelma thinks she is equal to boys. But to get the attention of the boy she likes, she must transform into a weaker, more submissive version of herself. Her mother insists on instilling in her that her virginity is her greatest asset and that a woman’s dignity is valued only by her husband and children.“
with My love affair with marriage, Sign Bauman Looking for an answer to her questions: Can a woman break free from socio-historical norms and find perfection without a man, as she is?
The variety was marked before production
As a whole work of art, My love affair with marriage Moves between all genres to touch universality. The animation is primarily an amazing mix of hand-drawn and stop-motion against the backdrop of natural scenery (live footage). line Sign Bauman Invites illustrator Maurice Sendak to illustrate and takes his witty references from the greatest works of children’s literature.
This original animation is accompanied by extraordinary musical sequences, often punctuated by the sounds of the three sirens, straight from ancient mythology. This female chorus, in Zelma’s imagination, resonates as an echo of the social norms that have been re-enforced in her since childhood. “The singing trio imposes rules on Zelma: why she should get married, how to treat her husband… rules that often directly contradict the laws of her body.”
In addition to these often funny and ironic sequences, the audience’s ears are also haunted by the familiar sounds of the original version. Dominczyk (The Immigrant, Legacy) first, but also Cameron Monaghan (Shameless, Gotham) or even Stephen Lang (Avatar). A symphony of interpretations, each more accurate than the other!
A contemporary and feminist tale, My love affair with marriage It represents and speaks to new generations and could well replace the legends of the past. Discovery in cinemas from June 7!
Source: Allocine
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