Critically acclaimed and nominated for five Lumiere awards (France’s equivalent to the Golden Globes), Emmanuel Mouret’s “Love Affair(s)” gives heartache the Scheherazade treatment, tackling a network of love triangles and affairs with a genteel touch and an understanding that every standalone story plants the seeds for several more.
Variety spoke with the director.The ensemble film uses the framework of a young-mother-to-be (Camelia Jordana) and a frustrated wannabe novelist (Niels Schneider) swapping heartaches and battle scars as they spend a few days alone in the south of France.
Like a Russian nesting doll, each story opens to reveal new characters, romantic entanglements and narrative threads within – though for all its many threads, the film remains a warm and soft-spoken art-house confection.The Cannes-selected title is screening at UniFrance’s Rendez-vous with French Cinema, which is operating as a hybrid event this year.
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