Synopsis

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.

Oct 17, 2025 at 10:18 AM

Original title: Éloge de l'amour

Released: May 16, 2001

Studios: Avventura Films, Périphéria, ARTE France Cinéma, Vega Film, TSR, ECM Records, StudioCanal, DFF - Deutsches Filminstitut & Filmmuseum, Studio Images 6

Countries: France, Switzerland, Germany