In Praise of Love
Éloge de l'amour
Release: 2001-05-16
·Runtime: 99m
·★ 6.6
Drama
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.
Production Countries
France
Switzerland
Production Companies
Avventura Films
Périphéria
ARTE France Cinéma
Vega Film
TSR
DFI
Trailers & Videos
Cast
Hocine Choutri
as L'homme qui court
Cécile Camp
as Elle
Jean Davy
as Grandfather
Rémo Forlani
as Mayor Forlani
Jean Lacouture
as Historian
Jérémie Lippmann
as Perceval
Lemmy Constantine
as U.S. Assistant
Laurence Colussi
Ysé Tran
as Maid
Bruno Putzulu
as Edgar
Ludovic Berthillot
as Le clochard
Marie Desgranges
as Woman on a bench in Paris (uncredited)
Marceline Loridan-Ivens
as Woman in movie theatre
Djelloul Beghoura
as Algerian
Marie-Françoise Audollent
