In Praise of Love (2001)

In Praise of Love (2001)

2001-05-16 France, Switzerland 99 Min. PG-13
6.6 42 votes

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.

Cast

Jean Davy is Grandfather
Grandfather
Françoise Verny is Grandmother
Grandmother
Audrey Klebaner is Eglantine
Claude Baignières is Mr. Rosenthal
Mr. Rosenthal
Rémo Forlani is Mayor Forlani
Mayor Forlani
Mark Hunter is U.S. Journalist
U.S. Journalist
Jean Lacouture is Historian
Philippe Lyrette is Philippe, Edgar's Assistant
Philippe, Edgar's Assistant
Bruno Mesrine is Magician