Directed by Louis Garrel • Comedy • 2019 • France • French with English subtitles
Starring Louis Garrel, Laetitia Casta, Lily-Rose Depp
Louis Garrel’s sophomore feature, in which he also stars alongside Lily-Rose Depp and Laetitia Casta, is at once a beguiling bedroom farce and a playful inversion of the patriarchal tropes of the French New Wave. Nine years after she left him for his best friend, hapless journalist Abel gets back together with his recently widowed old flame, but soon finds himself embroiled in all sorts of drama.
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