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In Praise of Love (2001) [PG]

Release Date:
May 16, 2001

Original Title:
Éloge de l'amour

Alternate Titles:
Elogio ao Amor

Genres:
Drama

Production Companies:
ARTE France Cinéma
Avventura Films
DFI
Périphéria
TSR
Vega Film

Production Countries:
France | Qatar | Switzerland

Ratings / Certifications:
KR: 12  US: PG 

Runtime: 99

Overview from TheMovieDB

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.

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Production

Assistant Camera:
Léo Mac Dougall
Emmanuelle Collinot

Assistant Director:
Gilbert Guichardière
Christophe Rabinovici
Aurélien Poitrimoult
Fleur Albert

Boom Operator:
Olivier Burgaud

Casting:
Stéphane Foenkinos

Colorist:
Richard Deusy

Costume Design:
Marina Thibaut

Director:
Jean-Luc Godard

Director of Photography:
Julien Hirsch
Christophe Pollock

Editor:
Raphaële Urtin

Gaffer:
Olivier Regent

Hairstylist:
Marie-France Thibault

Music:
Arvo Pärt
Maurice Jaubert
Ketil Bjørnstad
Georges Van Parys
David Darling
Karl Amadeus Hartmann

Producer:
Ruth Waldburger
Alain Sarde

Production Manager:
Joseph Strub

Sound:
François Musy
Gabriel Hafner
Christian Monheim

Sound Recordist:
Jean-Alexandre Villemer

Writer:
Jean-Luc Godard

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