In Praise of Love

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.

• Release date
• May 16, 2001
• Runtime
• 99 min
• Genres
• Drama
• Director
• Jean-Luc Godard

Cast

Bruno Putzulu Edgar Cécile Camp Elle Jean Davy Grandfather

F

Françoise Verny Grandmother

A

Audrey Klebaner Eglantine Jérémie Lippmann Perceval

C

Claude Baignières Mr. Rosenthal Rémo Forlani Mayor Forlani