In Praise of Love
1 hour 39 minutes2001-05-16
6.6
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Someone we hear talking - but whom we do not see - speaks of a project which describes the four key moments of love: meeting, physical passion, arguments/separation and making up. This project is to be told through three couples: young, adult and old. We do not know if the project is for a play, a film, a novel or an opera. The author of the project is always accompanied by a kind of servant. Meanwhile, two years earlier, an American civil servant meets with an elderly French couple who had fought in the Resistance during World War II, brokering a deal with a Hollywood director to buy the rights to tell their story. The members of the old couple's family discuss heatedly questions of nation, memory and history.
Cast
Bruno Putzulu
Edgar
Cécile Camp
Elle
Jean Davy
Grandfather
Françoise Verny
Grandmother
Audrey Klebaner
Eglantine
Jérémie Lippmann
Perceval
Claude Baignières
Mr. Rosenthal
Rémo Forlani
Mayor Forlani
Mark Hunter
U.S. Journalist
Jean Lacouture
Historian
Philippe Lyrette
Philippe, Edgar's Assistant
Bruno Mesrine
Magician
Djelloul Beghoura
Algerian
Violeta Ferrer
Woman 1
Valérie Ortlieb
Woman 2
Serge Spira
Homeless Man
Stéphanie Jaubert
Young Girl
Jean-Henri Roger
Mayor Forlani's Aide
Lemmy Constantine
U.S. Assistant
William Doherty
U.S. Official
Hocine Choutri
L'homme qui court
Marie-Françoise Audollent
Ludovic Berthillot
Le clochard
Laurence Colussi
Marceline Loridan-Ivens
Woman in movie theatre
François Rabinovic
The driver
Noël Simsolo
Ysé Tran
Maid
