In Praise of Love
Éloge de l'amour
2001, Film, 97 min, Drama, French, France, MoviePedia score 65
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.
Directed by Jean-Luc Godard
Cast
- Bruno Putzulu as Edgar
- Cécile Camp as Elle
- Jean Davy as Grandfather
- Françoise Verny as Grandmother
- Audrey Klebaner as Eglantine
- Jérémie Lippmann as Perceval
- Claude Baignières as Mr. Rosenthal
- Rémo Forlani as Mayor Forlani
- Mark Hunter as U.S. Journalist
- Jean Lacouture as Historian
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