In Praise of Love
16/05/2001
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.
Movie Information
Bruno Putzulu
as Edgar
Cécile Camp
as Elle
Jean Davy
as Grandfather
Françoise Verny
as Grandmother
Audrey Klebaner
as Eglantine
Jérémie Lippmann
as Perceval
Claude Baignières
as Mr. Rosenthal
Rémo Forlani
as Mayor Forlani
Mark Hunter
as U.S. Journalist
Jean Lacouture
as Historian
Philippe Lyrette
as Philippe, Edgar's Assistant
Bruno Mesrine
as Magician
Djelloul Beghoura
as Algerian
Violeta Ferrer
as Woman 1
Valérie Ortlieb
as Woman 2
Serge Spira
as Homeless Man
Stéphanie Jaubert
as Young Girl
Jean-Henri Roger
as Mayor Forlani's Aide
Lemmy Constantine
as U.S. Assistant
William Doherty
as U.S. Official
Hocine Choutri
as L'homme qui court
Marie-Françoise Audollent
as
Ludovic Berthillot
as Le clochard
Laurence Colussi
as
Marceline Loridan-Ivens
as Woman in movie theatre
François Rabinovic
as The driver
Noël Simsolo
as
Ysé Tran
as Maid
Marie Desgranges
as Woman on a bench in Paris (uncredited)
