In Praise of Love
16/05/2001
2h

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.
Cast


Bruno Putzulu
Edgar


Cécile Camp
Elle


Jean Davy
Grandfather
Françoise Verny
Grandmother
Audrey Klebaner
Eglantine


Jérémie Lippmann
Perceval
Claude Baignières
Mr. Rosenthal


Rémo Forlani
Mayor Forlani
Mark Hunter
U.S. Journalist


Jean Lacouture
Historian
Philippe Lyrette
Philippe, Edgar's Assistant
Bruno Mesrine
Magician


Djelloul Beghoura
Algerian
Violeta Ferrer
Woman 1
Valérie Ortlieb
Woman 2
Serge Spira
Homeless Man
Stéphanie Jaubert
Young Girl
Jean-Henri Roger
Mayor Forlani's Aide


Lemmy Constantine
U.S. Assistant
William Doherty
U.S. Official


Hocine Choutri
L'homme qui court


Marie-Françoise Audollent


Ludovic Berthillot
Le clochard


Laurence Colussi


Marceline Loridan-Ivens
Woman in movie theatre
François Rabinovic
The driver
Noël Simsolo


Ysé Tran
Maid


Marie Desgranges
Woman on a bench in Paris (uncredited)
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