"La Vocation D'André Carel" directed by Herr Jean Choux it is a film from Switzerland
that bored, beautiful and neutral country, and this oeuvre it is in accordance with such a description.
The film depicts the story of André Carel (Stéphane Audel, inexpressive as a sphinx), son of a famous Parisian writer, who is sent to Montreaux together with his tutor, Herr Gaston Lebau (Herr Michel Simon in his debut in the screen). In order to mitigate that most famous illness which the high classes suffer, that is to say, laziness (from centuries the wealthy people went to Switzerland in order to cure those symptoms). While during a boat ride, André will meet a girl, becoming infatuated by her instantly. In order to succeed in attracting her, André becomes a boatman.
The most interesting aspects of this Swiss film are the beautiful landscapes showed superbly thanks to the cinematography by Herr Charles Georges Duvanel and Herr Paul Guichard. The evocative and marine scenes at the Léman Lake focused on the boatmen's hardships (an important statement about a way of living which has disappeared). Detailed are those different worlds where André is immersed - the idle and the working class.
Unfortunately the film doesn't go deeply with those dramatic and interesting subjects (only succinctly). The director is satisfied depicting an anodyne and classic love story instead developing the drama implied in the film. That is not to mention the process of becoming aware of class-consciousness that André suffers. That's the reason why "La Vocation D'André Carel" it is a bored, beautiful and neutral film.
And now, if you'll allow me, I must temporarily take my leave because this German Count wants to see the elegant Boat Race at the Schloss Lake.
Herr Graf Ferdinand Von Galitzien http://ferdinandvongalitzien.blogspot.com/
