why is the film with François Civil and Adèle Exarchopoulos so eagerly awaited?

2024-10-14 12:54:00

After being presented in competition at the Cannes Film Festival, Gilles Lellouche’s latest film comes out in theaters this Wednesday 16 October.

French productions are growing in 2024. After the crazy success ofSomething more et The Counts of Monte Cristoanother French conquest is eagerly awaited. This Sunday, October 13th, the preview of ugh lovelast result of Gilles Lellouche after the success of Great bathroomin Lilles and broadcast throughout France, it was emulated.

A few months earlier, it was on the red carpet of the Cannes Film Festival that the crew had paraded to present this intense romantic drama for the first time. After intense promotion on all French televisions and radios, ugh love comes out this Wednesday 16 October across France. And if the film divided the critics at Cannes, the public is anxiously awaiting it… But for what reasons?

Because it is a project that took a long time to see the light

ugh love is a film that Gilles Lellouche has wanted to direct for over 15 years. It was Benoît Poelvoorde who proposed him the novel by the Irish writer Neville Thompson, Jackie loves Johnser, okay? published in 1997, advising him to make a film. For years Gilles Lellouche has been trying to make it an “ultraviolent romantic comedy”, but the project has been delayed. Finally, after the success of Great bathroomfirst comedy directed by Gilles Lellouche, ugh love is announced on the sidelines of the 2021 Cannes festival. We will have to wait another three years before the film comes out in theaters, the screenplay of which is written by the director together with Audrey Diwan (.The event, Emmanuelle…).

Because it’s a passionate love story

As the name suggests, ugh love tells an epic love story like only cinema can tell. It is the passionate love story between Jackie and Clotaire. They met as teenagers in the 1980s in northern France. Although their social origins are adverse, the two fall madly in love with each other. But when Clotario is accused of committing a crime, he is sentenced to spend twelve years in prison and loses Jackie. When he leaves, at the age of 27, he is determined to win back the person he loves and make up for lost time.

In addition to this romantic and romantic scenario, the rumors of a real romance between the two stars of the film (which annoys the two main parties who refuse to answer during the promo), were enough to tickle the curiosity.

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Because there is a dream cast

ugh loveit’s also really amazing casting. If Gilles Lellouche works “only” as a director and does not appear as an actor in the film, he has gathered around him the biggest names of the moment. François Civil (The Three Musketeers) et Adele Exarchopoulos (Life of Adèle, I will always see your faces) play the two lovers as adults, when they are Mallory Wanecque (The worst) and Malik Frikah (Apache) who embody their adolescent versions. A myriad of supporting characters evolve around them: Alain Chabat (The city of fear), Benoît Poelvoorde (It happened near you, Podium), Vincenzo Lacoste (Lost illusions, Hippocrates), Jean-Pascal Zadi (Simply black, in its place), Elodie Bouchez (I will always see your faces), Karim Leklou (BAC Nord, The world is yours), Raphaël Quenard (Yannick) and Anthony Bajon (Prayer) all come to respond to the protagonists.

Because it’s a big budget film

Deposit ugh loveGilles Lellouche saw things in great style: romantic drama, gangster films, ultraviolent scenes interspersed with dance scenes, reconstruction of the 80s and 90s, hits (The Bure, Prince…), refined direction and great cinematography impact. .. The disappointed press denounced a “catch-all” at the Cannes Film Festival, forcing Gilles Lellouche to partially revise his copy (the film is cut by 20 minutes compared to the version screened on the Croisette, he teaches us The Parisian). As a result, filming lasted several months, many sets were used, and the team was expanded to 90 people. So much so that, according to the CNC, the film would have cost 35.7 million euros… Big budgets, therefore big expectations.

Because the critics don’t entirely agree

A film that divides critics often arouses curiosity. For ugh lovefirst discovered at the Cannes Film Festival, critics praised Lellouche’s cinematic gesture, criticizing him for sometimes exaggerating. No one entirely agrees: “lively and ultra-romantic” for Le Parisien, who however denounces the “compliant violence” of the film, “Gilles Lellouche hits rock bottom” for Les inrocks. “An exhausting catch-all” for Télérama, it is also “a very long, violently sentimental melodrama” for Le Point. “How beautiful to watch” even if his love story of violence and addiction “doesn’t make you dream” for the Huffington Post, “Gilles Lellouche signs a film whose generosity sometimes plays tricks on him”. That didn’t stop the film from receiving a 15-minute standing ovation at its Cannes premiere, a record for this edition… But leave empty handed. Whatever happens, as always happens in cinema, the audience has the final say.

Synopsis – 1980s, northern France. Jackie and Clotaire grew up between high school and the docks of the port. She studies, he goes out. And then their destinies cross and it’s crazy love. Life will try to separate them but nothing works, these two are like the two ventricles of the same heart.