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François Civil and Adèle Exarchopoulos, here in “L’Amour ouf”, at the cinema.
CINEMA – 457. This is the number of words that François Civil – or rather his character, Clotaire – found in the Larousse dictionary to describe the chosen one of his heart, played by the French cinema star Adèle Exarchopoulos. The movie Love phewa highly anticipated new feature film by Gilles Lellouche, has been available in cinemas since Wednesday October 16, and if it is romantic, it is not a comedy.
“Remember when you told me I didn’t have enough vocabulary to express myself? “, we hear him ask, while a doctor is sewing up the skull of the latter, Jacqueline (or Jackie for short).
Love phew tells the story of a love story, firstly that of two teenagers (played by the brilliant Mallory Wanecque and Malik Frikah) who are separated in the 1980s. Don’t be fooled by the big eyes of Clotaire’s Puss in Boots. A young delinquent, he goes outside too much, when it’s not to hit others. Jackie comes from a wealthier background. She has a very loving father (Alain Chabat) and good grades at school.
It wasn’t love at first sight between them. It all starts when you get off the bus with an old joke about your look. She answers him, stands up. He loves it and will do everything to charm her. It works. Their touching story takes off. There were fifteen thousand of them until the day Clotaire plunged into organized crime for good. The twelve years in prison he received for a crime he did not commit sign the death warrant for their couple.
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Ten years later, he was released. She, married. Far from the turbulence of her adolescence, Jackie now has a small, orderly life. But unsurprisingly, she’s not happy. Neither does he. It’s certain: they still love each other.
“We will never have better”
It’s not the most original of scenarios. And yet, their love story is indeed “ phew » worth seeing, particularly for its enjoyable staging. It is tinged with humor and made of collective choreographies like La La Land (including one which was ultimately cut in the final edit), but here in the north of France. In the background: postcard landscapes, mixing port docks, eclipses and sunsets on the beach. The rock’n’roll soundtrack (composed among others of the Cure), the fiery end credits and the gruff dialogues also have something to do with it.
However, don’t expect to dream in front of this atypical romantic comedy. Surrounded by violence, blood, broken windows, tears or fear, it really doesn’t make you want to experience it. Jacqueline and Clotaire have become emotionally dependent on each other and find nothing or no one else a potential new source of happiness.
“We will never have better”, he confides to her one lunchtime at a restaurant, between two mouthfuls of spring rolls. ” That ? » the young woman asks him. “That we”breathes Clotaire. And after all, who are we to judge if they are happy?
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