Love Lasts Three Years
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Warm, kinetic, gentle romance / comedy, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
How every film is hand-scored →A heartbroken literary critic turns his despair into creativity following a bitter divorce, only to encounter an enchanting beauty who poses a major challenge to his newfound cynicism. Marc Marronnier thought his marriage was going well until his wife deemed him immature, and left him for a high-profile writer. Devastated, he began filtering all of his heartache into a misanthropic manuscript decrying the virtues of true love. But later, when Marc falls hard for his cousin's radiant and gorgeous wife, his entire life is turned upside down. Louise Bourgoin and Gaspard Proust star in a film by actor and author-turned-director Frederic Beigbeder.
Our read · Love Lasts Three Years (2011) reads as a warm, kinetic, grounded romance · comedy entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
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