LOVE ME TENDER

North American Premiere | France | 2025 | Drama | 133 min | In French with English subtitles

Directed by: Anna Cazenave Cambet
Written by: Anna Cazenave Cambet
Based on the Book by: Constance Debré
Produced by: Raphaëlle Delauche & Nicolas Sanfaute (Novoprod), France 2 Cinéma
Cinematography: Kristy Baboul
Original Score: Maxence Dussère
Film Editing: Joris Laquittant
Cast: Vicky Krieps (Clémence), Antoine Reinartz (Laurent), Monia Chokri (Sarah), Viggo Ferreira-Redier (Paul), Ji-Min Park (Victoire), Salif Cissé (the psychiatrist expert), Féodor Atkine (the father), Aurélia Petit (the mediator)
International Sales: Be For Films

Synopsis

Divorced and literally glowing in her new-found sexual freedom, Clémence is ebullient as she leaves a Paris swimming pool to meet her happy-go-lucky ex, Laurent, to make an announcement: she’s now into women. But Laurent is not as laid-back as he seems and quickly turns the tables on her and their hitherto amicable joint custody agreement. Vicky Krieps turns in another luminous, powerhouse performance in Anna Cazenave Cambet‘s adaptation of Constance Debré’s autobiographical novel, plunging us into the complex moral dilemmas implicit in society’s searing either/or notions of motherhood vs. self-fulfillment.

Director’s Biography

A graduate of the La Fémis film school in Paris, Anna Cazenave Cambet wrote and directed her first short, Gabber Lover, in 2016, which snagged the Short Film Queer Palm in Cannes, the VFF Young Talent Award at the Munich Film Festival, and the Jury Award for Best Student Live-Action Short at the Palm Springs International Short Fest. That was followed by the short lemanja cœur océan (2017). Her first feature, Gold for Dogs (2020) was screened in the Critics’ Week section in Cannes. Love Me Tender, her second feature, premièred in the Un Certain Regard section of this year’s Cannes Film Festival.