While searching for a romantic comedy that had not yet been considered in French cinema, director David Moreau and his screenwriter Amro Hamzawi came up with the idea of a couple’s age gap.
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They then co-wrote, 20 years apart, the story of Alice Lantini, an ambitious 38-year-old woman about to become the editor-in-chief of Rebelle magazine. To get this job, she trades her image as a stuck-up woman for Idilia’s seemingly young and charming Balthazar, barely 20 years old.
If the film doesn’t leave the humor in the background, especially thanks to a wonderful gallery of supporting roles, it certainly accepts the codes of romance – from love at first sight to Magnolia in Notting Hill, Les Femmes de ses rêves -, offering a co-star and an extra duet both funny and disturbing.
Virgin Efira’s sexual attitude and comic flair – which here confirms her interest in romantic comedy after La Chance de ma vie and L’Amour c’est mieux à deux – contrast harmoniously with the heat of Pierre Nin, a rising star of the time. which was awarded the Golden Swan Award for Best Actor at the Cabourg Film Festival.
Upon release in 2013, 20 years apart It attracted 1.4 million French people.
20 years apart By David Moreau with Virgin Efira, Pierre Nini, Gilles Cohen…
from the age of 10
Tonight on TF1 at 21:10.
Source: Allocine
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