A Flame in My Heart

A Flame in My Heart
Theatrical release poster
FrenchUne flamme dans mon cœur
Directed byAlain Tanner
Written byMyriam Mézières
Alain Tanner
Produced byPaulo Branco
StarringMyriam Mézières
Benoît Régent
Aziz Kabouche
CinematographyAcácio de Almeida
Edited byLaurent Uhler
Production
companies
  • Garance
  • La Sept Cinéma
  • Filmograph
Distributed by
  • BAC Films (France)
  • Regina Films (Switzerland)
Release dates
  • 3 June 1987 (1987-06-03) (France)
  • 20 August 1987 (1987-08-20) (Switzerland)
Running time
110 minutes
CountriesSwitzerland
France
LanguageFrench

A Flame in My Heart (French: Une flamme dans mon cœur) is a 1987 Swiss-French drama film co-written and directed by Alain Tanner. It stars Myriam Mézières, Benoît Régent and Aziz Kabouche, and centres on a woman’s shifting relationships with two men. The film later screened in Cape Town, Alès and Santiago de Compostela.[1][2]

Synopsis

The film follows Mercedes, a theatre actress, as her turbulent relationship with Johnny, a young Algerian immigrant, comes to an end and she begins a new relationship with Pierre, a journalist.[1] After Pierre goes away on a business trip, Mercedes becomes increasingly withdrawn and isolates herself.[3]

Cast

The cast includes:[4]

Reception

The Los Angeles Times wrote that the film offered an “honest or credible delineation” of obsessive love, and described it as a film of “considerable complexity”, involving “issues of culture and class as well as sex and politics”.[5] The New York Times described the film as an interesting work by a first-class filmmaker.[6]

Filmdienst described it as a confused, speculative and dishonest film about obsessive love.[2] Filmpodium quoted an assessment that Tanner could address both the world and sex without losing his personal perspective.[4] Der Tagesspiegel wrote that the film’s portrayal of an obsessive relationship had made a strong impression.[3]

Festival screenings

The film premiered in 1987. Later festival screenings included the Cape Town International Film Festival in 1993, the Festival Cinéma d'Alès in 1994, and Cineuropa 35 in Santiago de Compostela in 2021.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Une flamme dans mon cœur". Swiss Films. Retrieved 14 April 2026.
  2. 1 2 "Eine Flamme in meinem Herzen". Filmdienst (in German). Retrieved 14 April 2026.
  3. 1 2 "Panorama: Der Film meines Lebens: Kurator Klaus Biesenbach über "Eine Flamme in meinem Herzen"". Der Tagesspiegel (in German). 14 September 2001. Retrieved 14 April 2026.
  4. 1 2 "Une flamme dans mon cœur". Filmpodium (in German). Retrieved 14 April 2026.
  5. ↑ Thomas, Kevin (7 July 1989). "MOVIE REVIEW : Tanner Delineates Obsessive Love in 'Flame'". Los Angeles Times. Archived from the original on 24 September 2015. Retrieved 19 August 2018.
  6. ↑ Canby, Vincent (17 January 1990). "Review/Film; A Cerebral and Sexual Look At Character and Emotion". The New York Times. Archived from the original on 25 May 2015. Retrieved 19 August 2018.
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