LOVES SONGS
Les chansons d'amour

The wonderfully satisfying new film from Christophe Honoré (Inside Paris) is a formidably charming romance about love and loss in contemporary Paris – with, as the title suggests - music! The film follows a few months in the life of Ismaël, played by the floppy-haired Louis Garrel, who seems to be competing strongly with Romain Duris for the title of France's favourite art-house pin-up boy.

Ismael and Julie (Ludivine Sagnier) are beautiful twenty-somethings who find that their relationship is becoming a little flat after eight years. Bringing Alice, Ismael's co-worker, into the relationship has created a comfortable menage-à-trois, but has made other issues more apparent. But then tragedy strikes... How will Louis make sense of the world – and with whom?

Strong supporting turns from Chiara Mastroianni, Clotilde Hesme, Yannick Reniere and – especially - young Grégoire Leprince-Ringuet make Love Songs a joyous ode to l'amour, and the risks and rewards of keeping an open heart (and mind).

France 2007 – Drama [100 mins]
Director: Christophe Honoré
With: Louis Garrel, Ludivine Sagnier

Cesar Best Score
5 Cesar Nominations incl. Best Female Newcomer (Hesme), Best Male Newcomer (Leprince-Ringuet), Best Score

Rating: tba

Session

FILMS

PARIS
13m2
AFTER HIM
THE AGE OF MAN
ANNA M
A SECRET
CHRYSALIS
COULD THIS BE LOVE?
CRIME INSIDERS
THE DINNER GUEST
FLIGHT OF THE RED BALLOON (PG)
GOTTA DANCE!
HAVE MERCY ON US ALL
THE HOUSE
IN MOM'S HEAD
INTIMATE ENEMIES
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE
LOVE SONGS
MOLIERE
ODETTE TOULEMONDE
THE PRICE TO PAY
THE SECRET OF THE GRAIN
TO EACH HIS OWN CINEMA (M)
UV
WAITING FOR SOMEONE
WATER LILIES
WICKED WEEKEND
THE YEAR AFTER

DOCUMENTARIES

ANIMALS IN LOVE
IN ANOTHER PLACE
LAGERFELD CONFIDENTIAL
LET'S SAY... (PG)


FAMILY

AZUR & ASMAR
BIG CITY

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