In Praise of Love

A dense, essayistic meditation that drifts between memory and history, rewarding patience with quiet, mournful beauty.

Directed by

Jean-Luc Godard

Genres

Drama

Starring

Bruno Putzulu, Cécile Camp, Jean Davy

Overview

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.

How it feels

Melancholic, earnest, tense and romantic. Slow-burning and demanding.

About

Love, memory, art, death

Content

Mild sexual content and language. No violence or gore.

Note

Written by AI, so it can be wrong. Full breakdown

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