In Praise of Love
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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.
Status: Released
Released Date: 2001-05-16
Runtime: 99 mins
Director: Jean-Luc Godard
Writer: Jean-Luc Godard
Spoken language: Deutsch, Français, English
Genres: Drama
Original title: In Praise of Love
Production Companies: Avventura Films, Périphéria, ARTE France Cinéma, Vega Film, TSR, DFI, ECM Records, StudioCanal, DFF - Deutsches Filminstitut & Filmmuseum, Studio Images 6
Production Countries: France, Switzerland, Germany
Cast
Bruno Putzulu
Cécile Camp
Jean Davy
Françoise Verny
Audrey Klebaner
Jérémie Lippmann
Claude Baignières
Rémo Forlani
Mark Hunter
Jean Lacouture
Philippe Lyrette
Bruno Mesrine
Djelloul Beghoura
Violeta Ferrer
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