Set between the sun-drenched optimism of the 1950s and the looming uncertainty of civil war, this film by Chloé Mazlo follows the quiet, dreamlike life of Alice, a young Swiss woman who moves to Beirut after marrying Joseph, a Lebanese astrophysicist. What begins as an idealistic love story slowly becomes entangled with the fragility of a country on the brink of collapse, where intimacy and daily life are increasingly shaped by political rupture.
Blending live action with animation to craft a memory-like piece assembled from family stories, the film stars Alba Rohrwacher and traces how love persists, transforms, and is tested in the face of historical rupture. It is a delicate portrait of affection lived across cultures and continents, where personal devotion and collective catastrophe become impossible to separate.
ZomerCinema: AMOUR is realized with the support of Institut français NL and the IF-cinéma programme.
ZomerCinema: AMOUR
First love, obsessive love, forbidden love, unrequited love, true love: love comes in a thousand forms — and thus in a thousand films. With a programme of twelfe French films, we celebrate (and question) love in all its manifestations. Because France is the country of love. Right?
From sultry summer films to works that explore the destructive shadow sides of love. And from classics by established filmmakers such as Claude Chabrol and François Truffaut to films by contemporary directors such as Justine Triet and Vanessa Filho: it is l’été de l’amour.
- Director
- Chloé Mazlo
- RUNNING TIME
- 90′
- Release Year
- 2020
- Country
- France
- Language
- French, Arabic, Italian
- Subtitles
- English, French
- Supported by
- Institut français NL
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