A man involved in a passionate relationship with a celebrated writer of 30 years his senior needs to talk. He is fascinated by her and yet he feels he just cannot go on anymore. He opens up, in an attempt to put into words the intensity of his love and he describes it with great clarity.
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
- Claire Simon
- Runtime
- 95′
- Country
- France
- Language
- French
- Subtitles
- EN
Jean, an ‘old teenager of forty’ and failed film-maker, is married to Françoise, a woman of his own age with whom he lives, probably more out of a need for protection than out of affection. For the past six years he has had a twenty-five year old mistress, Catherine, who is very much in love
