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Beloved

Les bien-aimés

France, United Kingdom, Czech Republic

2011

134 Min
Color
2.35:1
French, English, Czech
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DIR Christophe Honoré

PROD Pascal Caucheteux

SCR Christophe Honoré

DP Rémy Chevrin

CAST Chiara Mastroianni, Catherine Deneuve, Ludivine Sagnier, Louis Garrel, Miloš Forman, Paul Schneider, Radivoje Bukvić, Michel Delpech, Omar Ben Sellem, Dustin Segura-Suarez, Goldy Notay, Kenneth Collard, Gavin Brocker

ED Chantal Hymans

PROD DES Samuel Deshors

MUSIC Alex Beaupain

SOUND Guillaume Le Bras

Cannes (Out of Competition), Toronto (Gala), Istanbul (Film and Music)

Synopsis

From Paris in the sixties to 21st-century London, Madeleine and her daughter Vera waltz in and out of the lives of the men they love. But not every era allows us to love blithely and lightheartedly. How are we to resist the sands of time that attack our most heartfelt sentiments? –Cannes Film Festival

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Christophe Honoré

After moving to Paris in 1995, he wrote articles in the “Les Cahiers du Cinéma.” He started writing soon-after. 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. In 2005, he returns to Avignon to present his latest creation, Dionysos impuissant, in the “In” Festival; Joana Preiss and Louis Garrel, who has acted in a number of Honoré films, played the leads.

A well-known director, he is considered an “auteur” in French Cinema. His 2006 film “Dans Paris” has led him to be considered by French critics as the heir to the Nouvelle Vague Cinema. In 2007, Les Chansons d’amour was one of the films selected to be in competition at the 2007 Cannes Film Festival.1 Some of his movies or screenplays (like Les filles ne savent pas nager, Dix-sept fois Cécile Cassard and Les… read more

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FailedImitator

2May13

I echo the great production design.

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GiaM

31Mar13

Ludivine is soooo gorgeous in this.

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ramosbarajas

15Jan13

It certainly has a lot of style (aka production design), but lacks essence and spirit. There's not much originality since everything was already done in Love Songs. This ends up feelings like a weak remake of the same style.

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Carlos Filipe Freitas

25Dec12

Honoré's new film counts with the presence of three wonderful divas – Catherine Deneuve, Chiara Mastroianni and Ludivine Sagnier, but their charm wasn’t enough to turn “Beloved” into a charming movie. Review and Rating: http://alwayswatchgoodmovies.blogspot.com/

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Cannes 2011. Christophe Honoré's "Beloved"

By David Hudson on May 22, 2011

"As the closing night film at Cannes — and, as such, lumped in historically with such bland films as The Tree, What Just Happened?, Chromophobia

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Christophe Honoré's "Les bien-aimés" to Close Cannes 2011

By David Hudson on April 28, 2011

Updated through 5/3. The Cannes Film Festival has announced that Christophe Honoré's Les bien-aimés (Beloved), featuring Catherine

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i want to go home, but where can i go?

By Artemis on December 21, 2011

http://embryons.wordpress.com/2011/09/24/les-bien-aimes-honore-2011/

Christophe Honoré’s love is not easy, nor is it conventional. It is dastardly difficult to capture, and even more so to released…  read review

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