Love, etc. (1996)
Country: FR
Technical: col/Panavision 104m
Director: Marion Vernoux
Cast: Charlotte Gainsbourg, Yvan Attal, Charles Berling
Synopsis:
The relationship of a pair of lifelong friends depends on the one's ineptness with women and the other's insouciance. However, when the gauche partner finds a wife through the singles ads the other falls in love and takes her from him.
Review:
The film works up to a satisfying emotional climax but then ducks out of resolving the issues by leaping ahead to the year 2000. The issues are of course those of amical/conjugal loyalty and the nature of relationships which depend so often on a certain dynamic in order to work. Those who admire a certain genre of French film where character and performance are placed centre stage and the script is fairly literate will nevertheless find much to enjoy here.
Country: FR
Technical: col/Panavision 104m
Director: Marion Vernoux
Cast: Charlotte Gainsbourg, Yvan Attal, Charles Berling
Synopsis:
The relationship of a pair of lifelong friends depends on the one's ineptness with women and the other's insouciance. However, when the gauche partner finds a wife through the singles ads the other falls in love and takes her from him.
Review:
The film works up to a satisfying emotional climax but then ducks out of resolving the issues by leaping ahead to the year 2000. The issues are of course those of amical/conjugal loyalty and the nature of relationships which depend so often on a certain dynamic in order to work. Those who admire a certain genre of French film where character and performance are placed centre stage and the script is fairly literate will nevertheless find much to enjoy here.
Country: FR
Technical: col/Panavision 104m
Director: Marion Vernoux
Cast: Charlotte Gainsbourg, Yvan Attal, Charles Berling
Synopsis:
The relationship of a pair of lifelong friends depends on the one's ineptness with women and the other's insouciance. However, when the gauche partner finds a wife through the singles ads the other falls in love and takes her from him.
Review:
The film works up to a satisfying emotional climax but then ducks out of resolving the issues by leaping ahead to the year 2000. The issues are of course those of amical/conjugal loyalty and the nature of relationships which depend so often on a certain dynamic in order to work. Those who admire a certain genre of French film where character and performance are placed centre stage and the script is fairly literate will nevertheless find much to enjoy here.