Éloge de l'amour (2001)

Title: In Praise of Love

Original Title: Éloge de l'amour

Release Date: 2001-05-16

Status: Released

Rating: 6.667/10 (from 43 votes)

Language: FR

Genres: Drama

Production Companies: Avventura Films, Périphéria, ARTE France Cinéma, Vega Film, TSR, DFI, ECM Records, StudioCanal, DFF - Deutsches Filminstitut & Filmmuseum, Studio Images 6

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.