In Praise of Love

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.

Details

Cast

Bruno Putzulu

Edgar

Cécile Camp

Elle

Jean Davy

Grandfather

Françoise Verny

Grandmother

Audrey Klebaner

Eglantine

Jérémie Lippmann

Perceval

Claude Baignières

Mr. Rosenthal

Rémo Forlani

Mayor Forlani

Mark Hunter

U.S. Journalist

Jean Lacouture

Historian

Philippe Lyrette

Philippe, Edgar's Assistant

Bruno Mesrine

Magician

Djelloul Beghoura

Algerian

Violeta Ferrer

Woman 1

Valérie Ortlieb

Woman 2

Serge Spira

Homeless Man

Stéphanie Jaubert

Young Girl

Jean-Henri Roger

Mayor Forlani's Aide

Lemmy Constantine

U.S. Assistant

William Doherty

U.S. Official