Cinema Releases - Beloved

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Starring Catherine Deneuve and (her real-life daughter) Chiara Mastroianni, this sly and exquisitely romantic musical drama from Christophe Honoré (Love Songs, Dans Paris) spans over three decades as  it follows a mother and daughter's misadventures in love. In the ‘60s, Madeleine (Ludivine Sagnier) leaves Paris to re-join her Czech husband Jaromil (Rasha Bukvic) in Prague, but his infidelities and the arrival of Russian tanks in the city lead her back to France.

Thirty years later we follow the romance of Madeleine’s daughter, Vera, who falls in love with a musician (Paul Scneider) in London who is incapable of devoting himself to her. Meanwhile in Paris, a re-married Madeleine (Deneuve) has rekindled her love affair with Jaromil (Milos Forman). Louis Garrel and Paul Schneider also star in this light-hearted but ultimately  moving exploration of the changing nature of relationships, with music by Alex Beaupain (Love Songs).

An elegy to femininity and passion with musical outbursts.

Closing Night Film, Cannes Film Festival 2011, Out of Competition

Toronto Film Festival 2011, Gala

 

Christophe Honoré Director

Filmography Selected

Christophe Honoré is a French writer and film director born in Carhaix, Finistère in 1970.

After moving to Paris in 1995, he wrote articles in Les Cahiers du Cinéma. His 1996 book Tout contre Léo (Close to Leo) talks about HIV and is aimed at young adults; he made it into a movie in 2002. He wrote other books for young adults throughout the late 1990s. His first play, Les Débutantes, was performed at Avignon's Off Festival in 1998. He has since pursued a career as both a theatre and film director.

He made his first feature-length film in 2002 with 17 fois Cécile Cassard. His 2006 film Dans Paris has led him to be hailed by French critics as an heir to the Nouvelle Vague. In 2007, Les Chansons d'amour was selected in the Cannes Film Festival's Official Competition. From adapting Georges Bataille's Ma Mère (2005) to directing films for television, Honore has often dealt with sensitive topics, including suicide, incest, lies and family secrets.

Beloved (Les Bien-Aimes) is his latest film, premiered in Cannes in May 2011

2002 17 Fois Cécile Cassard (Seventeen Times Cécile Cassard)

2004 Ma Mère (My Mother)

2006 Dans Paris (In Paris)

2007 Les Chansons d'amour (Love Songs)

2008 La Belle personne (The Beautiful Person)

2009 Non ma fille tu n'iras pas danser

2010 Homme au bain (Man at Bath)

2011 Les Bien-aimés (Beloved)