L’amour ouf is one of the most watchable French films, especially for its casting led by François Civil and Adele Exarchopoulos. Alain Chabat, Benoît Polvorde, Vincent Lacoste, Jean-Pascal Zad, Elodie Bouches, Karim Leclew, Raphael Quenard, Anthony Bajon and many others also feature.
L’Amour ouf finally released its trailer at the Cannes competition last May, which gives a good idea of the scope of the film.
A great musical romantic love story
The film is a grand, ultra-violent musical romantic love story spanning 20 years. “80s in the north of France. Jack and Clotter grew up between high school benches and harbor docks. He learns, he hangs. And then their destinies intersect and it’s crazy love. Life will try to separate them, but nothing will work, these two are like two ventricles of the same heart…“
The film takes place in several eras and crosses temporalities. Malik Fricka (seen in Apaches) and Mallory Vanek (seen in Les Pires) will play the other two leads. They will play the young version of the characters played by François Civil and Adele Exarchopoulos.
Screenplay by Gilles Lelouch, based on the book by Neville Thompson, co-written with Ahmed Hamidi and Audrey Divan.
Malik Fricka and Mallory Vanek
What is the genre of the movie?
L’Amour ouf will have the uniqueness of crossing genres. “A mix of genres, especially musical comedy. It’s a teenage movie, a love movie…“, develops Gilles Lelouch on the microphone of Beau Geste.
“I love the mix of genres. Violence mixed with humor, irony in the midst of great sincerity. I tried to do a kind of sensory journey“, he continues in the columns of “Premier” magazine for the month of December 2023.
In terms of guidelines, the producers are hailing the director’s love for cinema that calls out to Scorsese, Tarantino or West Side Story… The film will have an XXL duration of 2h40 as the quoted guidelines…
For the dance part, the director called the most sought-after company of the moment: the collective (La)Horde, for which this is their first foray into cinema.
Francois Civil and Adele Exarchopoulos
Why are you waiting so much for this movie?
L’Amour ouf had a long genesis. The project has been announced for a long time. The first attempt to make this film took place a few years ago with Benoit Polvorde.
The project was shelved and Gilles Lelouch released Le Grand Bain, with the success we know (4.3 million hits). As the director explains, it was the success of this film that allowed him to realize this new project, which he had been thinking about for exactly 17 years!
L’Amour ouf is Gilles Lelouch’s third feature film after Narco and Grand Bane. It will be released on October 16, 2024.
Source: Allocine
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