In Praise of Love

Someone we hear talking - but whom we do not see - speaks of a project which describes the four key moments of love: meeting, physical passion, arguments/separation and making up. This project is to be told through three couples: young, adult and old. We do not know if the project is for a play, a film, a novel or an opera. The author of the project is always accompanied by a kind of servant. Meanwhile, two years earlier, an American civil servant meets with an elderly French couple who had fought in the Resistance during World War II, brokering a deal with a Hollywood director to buy the rights to tell their story. The members of the old couple's family discuss heatedly questions of nation, memory and history.

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  Jean-Luc Godard
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  Fleur Albert

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  Bruno Putzulu
  Edgar
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  Cécile Camp
  Elle
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  Jean Davy
  Grandfather
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  Françoise Verny
  Grandmother
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  Audrey Klebaner
  Eglantine
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  Jérémie Lippmann
  Perceval
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  Claude Baignières
  Mr. Rosenthal
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  Rémo Forlani
  Mayor Forlani
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  Mark Hunter
  U.S. Journalist
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  Jean Lacouture
  Historian
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  Philippe Lyrette
  Philippe, Edgar's Assistant
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  Bruno Mesrine
  Magician
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  Djelloul Beghoura
  Algerian
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  Violeta Ferrer
  Woman 1
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  Valérie Ortlieb
  Woman 2
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  Serge Spira
  Homeless Man
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  Stéphanie Jaubert
  Young Girl
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  Jean-Henri Roger
  Mayor Forlani's Aide
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  Lemmy Constantine
  U.S. Assistant
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  William Doherty
  U.S. Official
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  Hocine Choutri
  L'homme qui court
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  Marie-Françoise Audollent
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  Ludovic Berthillot
  Le clochard
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  Laurence Colussi