In Praise of Love (2001)

  • PG
  • 10/16/2001 (US)
  • Drama
  • 1h 39m

Overview

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.

Jean-Luc Godard

Director, Writer

Cast

Bruno Putzulu's headshot

Bruno Putzulu

Edgar
Cécile Camp's headshot

Cécile Camp

Elle
Jean Davy's headshot

Jean Davy

Grandfather
Françoise Verny's headshot

Françoise Verny

Grandmother
Audrey Klebaner's headshot

Audrey Klebaner

Eglantine
Jérémie Lippmann's headshot

Jérémie Lippmann

Perceval
Noël Simsolo's headshot

Noël Simsolo

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