A romantic comedy with an all-lesbian cast. This heartwarming French low-budget production about intertwining love stories will remind Dutch audiences of ANNE+.
Nour and Camille are deeply attracted to each other, but their budding relationship wavers under the weight of Nour’s expectations. Insecure Laura suggests to her two partners that they have a child to strengthen their throuple. Meanwhile Gabrielle, a respected therapist, finds herself neglected by her partner Ruby and could fall for one of her patients.
Caught between doubts and desires, these romantic entanglements ask us: should I run, or should I commit ?
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
- Caroline Fournier
- Running Time
- 106′
- Release Year
- 2025
- Country
- France
- language
- French
- Subtitles
- English
Set in Paris, this film by Nine Antico follows Sophie, who unexpectedly lands a job at a comic book publisher despite being unqualified for the position. Just as she begins to settle into a fragile sense of stability, her life is upended when she breaks up with her boyfriend, the father of her unborn child.
Paris, 1985. Vanessa is thirteen when she meets Gabriel Matzneff. A very smart and manipulative man, the fifty-year-old renowned writer seduces the young girl. The adolescent becomes the lover and muse of a man celebrated by the cultural and political establishment. Losing herself in the relationship, she gradually starts to realize how destructive and abnormal
