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If You Love Me, Follow Me

2006 · 100 min

A gentle, wry midlife-crisis comedy about chasing a teenage dream, warm and a little bittersweet.

Overview
Thirty-five-year-old Max has a successful career and a beautiful wife, but one day he realises that his life isn’t exactly as he’d planned. He decides to leave it all behind to live out his teenage dream of being in a rock band. But fulfilling his dream at this point in his life is harder than he had imagined.

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How it feels

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Tone
  • lightstrength 2 of 3
  • whimsicalstrength 1 of 3
  • earneststrength 2 of 3
  • melancholicstrength 1 of 3
Pacing
measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
easy-watch, 2 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • identity
  • ambition
  • family
  • music
  • coming-of-age
Places
  • big city
  • home
Era
contemporary
Audience
adult
Form
None
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language mild
  • Violence none
  • Sex mild
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action1
Horror0
Humour6
Realism7
Romance4
Tension3
Darkness2
Complexity3
Emotional weight5

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Details

Genres
comedy
Directed by
Benoît Cohen
Written by
Eléonore Pourriat, Benoît Cohen
Starring
Julie Depardieu, Mathieu Demy, Eléonore Pourriat, Romane Bohringer, Mathias Mlekuz, Fabio Zenoni, Warren Zavatta, Rufus
Music
Léonard Vindry
Cinematography
Bertrand Mouly
Runtime
100 min
Country
France
Languages
French

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