THE YOUNG LOVERS

| 2022 – 114′ – Romance, Drama.
Written by: Solveig Anspach, Agnès De Sacy, Carine Tardieu,
Directed by: Carine Tardieu.
Starring: Fanny Ardant, Melvil Poupaud, Cécile de France, Florence Loiret Caille, Sharif Andoura, Sarah Henochsberg, Martin Laurent, Olenka Ilunga, Manda Touré.
Official Competition COLCOA 2021 (North American Premiere).
A France Channel release. |

Co-writer/director Carine Tardieu turns the typical May-December romance on its head with this discreet love story about a soulful 45-year-old oncologist who falls deeply in love with a beautiful, very independent 70-year-old retired architect. Melvil Poupaud’s and Fanny Ardent’s nuanced performances bring a fullness and depth to those characters, bypassing the usual clichés; expressing the thrill, anguish and vulnerability of falling in love — at any age — and revealing how true love is not at all blind, but flies in the face of the confines and preconceptions that society often likes to saddle it with.

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