Movie Quiz: Only those with a very good memory will get a 10/10!

Six years after his nine-time César-nominated film Le Grand Bain in 2019, Gilles Lelouch tomorrow releases his new feature film L’Amour ouf, which was in competition at the Cannes Film Festival last May to a mixed reception.

However, a few preview shows in recent weeks seem to have given it a warmer welcome. So let’s wait in the coming weeks to see if the film with its impressive cast (Francois Civil, Adele Exarchopoulos, Alain Chabat, Benoit Poelvoorde, Vincent Lacoste…) will find its audience and will find it like Le Grand Bain and its more than 4 million record to date.

In the meantime, we suggest playing with hearts, but literally, by trying to identify these ten hearts seen in movie scenes. And before you try to get the far-from-obvious Perfect, here are a few secrets from the movie in theaters tomorrow.

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A long time project

Here the novel is adapted by Gilles Lelouche Foo love By Irish author Neville Thompson, published in 2000. It was Benoit Polverde who suggested the book to the director and convinced him to make it into a film. This project, which Lelouch describes as “Ultra-violent romantic comedy“It took many years to finally see the light of day, with the rights to the novel acquired in 2004, seventeen years before the project was officially announced in 2021.

in the vein…

L’Amour ouf is inspired by many feature films that Gilles Lelouch loved in his youth, such as Rusty James, Outsiders or West Side Story:A kind of sweet mix between violence and intense feelings, hot and cold, sweet and bitter“, as he promises.

Necessary cuts and huge budgets

The first version of the film lasted 3 hours 40 minutes. After numerous cuts, it’s now just 2 hours 41 minutes long, with a budget of €35.7 million, and is shaping up to be one of the most ambitious films of the year.