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Love Songs [DVD]

Ludivine Sagnier (Actor), Jean-Marie Winling (Actor), Christophe Honor (Director) Rated:
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4.3 4.3 out of 5 stars 167 ratings
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Genre Romance
Format Color, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC, DVD
Contributor Chiara Mastroianni, Clotilde Hesme, Esteban Carvajal Alegria, Brigitte Roan, Louis Garrel, Guillaume Clerice, Yannick Renier, Sylvain Tempier, Grgoire Leprince-Ringuet, Annabelle Hettmann, Esteban Carjaval Alegria, Ludivine Sagnier, Christophe Honor, Jean-Marie Winling, Alice Butaud See more
Language French
Runtime 1 hour and 35 minutes
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Christophe Honoré further makes a case as one of the most exciting filmmakers of our generation with the exuberant and tender Love Songs (Les Chansons D'Amour), a modern day musical told through unforgettable songs sung entirely by the cast. In the hope of sparking their stalled relationship, Ismaël (Louis Garrel, Dans Paris, The Dreamers) and Julie (Ludivine Sagnier, Swimming Pool) enter a playful yet emotionally laced threesome with Alice (Clotilde Hesme, Regular Lovers). When tragedy strikes, these young Parisians are forced to deal with the fragility of life and love.

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  • MPAA rating ‏ : ‎ Unrated (Not Rated)
  • Package Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7.4 x 5.4 x 0.6 inches; 3.2 ounces
  • Director ‏ : ‎ Christophe Honor
  • Media Format ‏ : ‎ Color, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC, DVD
  • Run time ‏ : ‎ 1 hour and 35 minutes
  • Release date ‏ : ‎ November 11, 2008
  • Actors ‏ : ‎ Ludivine Sagnier, Jean-Marie Winling, Brigitte Roan, Chiara Mastroianni, Louis Garrel
  • Subtitles: ‏ : ‎ English
  • Studio ‏ : ‎ Ifc
  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B001DJ7PUA
  • Number of discs ‏ : ‎ 1
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.3 4.3 out of 5 stars 167 ratings

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5.0 out of 5 stars ...And now for something COMPLETELY different...
Reviewed in the United States on September 26, 2010
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I caught this film one night on the IFC and although I usually dislike subtitled movies because I get distracted from the action by having to read....I watched it and WOW. The French really know how to make a musical in the non-conformist way. Songs are blended into scenes as casually as breathing and the plots and subplots of each characters stories just weave into each other in a playful way. All of the actors do their own songs in whatever voice they have which gives a "realness" to it and the twists in the story are interesting.
It's a case of boy meets girl meets girl till death us do part and then everyone realizes what boy really wants.
If you like cine-art type films and are not going to roll your eyes when the characters calmly start singing their lines and threesomes, homosexuality and bisexuality don't freak you out...then by all means buy this film to add to your collection. I did after viewing on cable and I love it!
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Nastassia
5.0 out of 5 stars A Great Movie
Reviewed in the United States on September 6, 2022
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A great movie with a high rewatch value . I loved it and still love it . I love the music especially.
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M. Perry
5.0 out of 5 stars A charming confection of a film
Reviewed in the United States on December 12, 2008
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This is perhaps Honore's most accessible film to date, even though it is a polyamorous musical. Louis Garrel continues to impress and the smaller roles of Sagnier and Hesme are given ample room to shine as well. The music is beautiful, particularly the song about the Bastille, sung by Sagnier's character and her family in an opening scene. The even smaller roles of the family members are exquisite. I particularly felt for Mastroianni's character (spelling?)... please watch this film if you are a fan of french cinema, and want to escape reality for some bittersweet Parisian confection.
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Doron Matmor
1.0 out of 5 stars Dussapointed
Reviewed in the United States on February 19, 2022
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Crap ! Waste of rent fee. I usually love French movies. This one paid for is not included whatsoever.
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5.0 out of 5 stars An effortless modern musical.
Reviewed in the United States on May 28, 2020
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Beautiful movie with songs, as opposed to a regular musical, that deals with love, loss and finding salvation in the most unexpected places. Also you can't put Louis Garrell in a movie and not expect it to be good!
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S. Salcedo
4.0 out of 5 stars No extras, just the film
Reviewed in the United States on June 4, 2011
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I won't bore you with the summary because you can find that on IMDB and Wikipedia. I will review the DVD. I was expecting at least some behind the scenes process or making-of for the songs, or even a small segment of interviews and/or commentaries, but there's no extra at all. This DVD only has the movie in it. And although I truly love the film and the songs, it would have been a better DVD if it had extras included.
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COUNTRY COWBOY
5.0 out of 5 stars LOST AND FOUND LOVE
Reviewed in the United States on December 12, 2009
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I THOUGHT THIS WAS A WONDERFUL FILM. I AM PARTIAL TO FOREIGH FILMS, FRENCH AND SPANISH.
THE ACTING WAS VERY GOOD, SUBTITLES EASY TO FOLLOW, THOUGH I THOUGHT SOME WERE PARA-PHRASED TO THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE.
I HAD A FEELIN THAT THE LEAD MALE WAS NOT QUITE WHAT HE SEEMED AND IT PLAYED OUT IN THE END.
THE OTHER REVIEWS ARE ACCURATE AND THERE FOR NEED NOT TO REPETE THEIR WORDS.
ENJOY.
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cs211
3.0 out of 5 stars Relationship Status: It's complicated
Reviewed in the United States on November 4, 2012
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"Love Songs" is not what it might seem by glancing at the cover: a light-hearted musical about three young adults in love in Paris, enjoying a relationship that is more of a menage-a-trois than a love triangle. The movie takes a dark turn, and ends up exploring more types of love and more of the different emotions that love inspires than what is apparent at first glance.

"Love Songs" is a star turn for Louis Garrel, and he does an admirable job as Ismael. It helps that he is a beautiful man and a talented actor, as is especially demonstrated in two scenes where he plays parlor games (charades and puppeteering) for an amused audience that show off his expressive range. His character Ismael gets put through an emotional wringer as in a fairly short order of time he experiences a wide variety of different types of loving relationships, from the casual to the committed, with a variety of different people. Louis Garrel performs the role admirably, but one of the shortcomings of the movie is that it tries to do too much: any one of Ismael's relationships could have generated its own movie. Or maybe that is the point, at the end of the day: that is just the way that life is for young adults in the City of Light.

Ludivine Sagnier fans, of which I am most definitely one, will be a bit disappointed with "Love Songs", as the film definitely belongs to Garrel, not Sagnier. Sagnier's is a supporting role, and one which requires her to look wan and disinterested at a critical juncture, which does not play to her strength as a vibrant fun-loving woman. Clotilde Hesme is given a more carefree, impish role, and she does a fine job with it.

Director Christophe Honore does several things very well: the backdrop of Paris, especially the street scenes, makes the viewers feel as though they've been transported there; and the conclusion of the nightclub scene, which features several freeze-frames while the sound continues, is an emotionally touching way of conveying what is happening. But at the end I think that "Love Songs" tries to do a bit too much, and could have been better if it had reduced the scope of the plot. But again, maybe that is the point the film is trying to make about love: it's complicated.
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Sabrina
5.0 out of 5 stars Genau wie beschrieben
Reviewed in Germany on October 14, 2013
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Der Ton ist gut, das Bild für mein TV-Format ein wenig zu groß, habe auch keine Möglichkeit gefunden, es zu verkleinern. Einziges Manko ist an einigen Stellen die Geschwindigkeit der Untertitel.
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Client Amazon
4.0 out of 5 stars Excellent DVD
Reviewed in Spain on March 25, 2013
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Très bonne réception du produit conforme à la description sur le site d'amazon.

Le DVD inclu le CD de la BSO et des bonus intéressants; notamment un dîner entre les acteurs où on peut apprécier la spontanéité de l'équipe. J'ai aussi trouvé génial un documentaire sur l'enregistrement des chansons où on écoute une chanson qui n'a pas été retenue dans le film final.
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Martin Duchesne
5.0 out of 5 stars A wonderful love song / set of love songs
Reviewed in Canada on March 5, 2010
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I first saw this film at the LGBT film festival in Toronto 2007 and loved it because it is a film about love and not sexual identity. Essentially it follows the tragetory of a dying love that is reborn all set to wonderful songs in the spirit of Michel Legrand (eg Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964) and Jeune Filles de Rochefort (1967). Each song is essential to the development of the story but also stands alone. A wonderfully inspiring, inventive film that is not afraid to be what it is - a well edited film that is honest, spontaneous, funny, and rich in deeply drawn characters. I have watched this film about 25 times since buying it!
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schumann_bg
5.0 out of 5 stars beautiful film
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on February 5, 2012
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Les Chansons d'amour is quite an elegiac film, but it is never depressing. The songs explore ambiguities of the heart and give an emotional voltage to it that is sustained right through to its wonderfully romantic final image. Musicals have a history of being more intellectual in France than their American counterparts; right from Les Parapluies de Cherbourg there was a sophistication and an attempt to deal with the harsher aspects of life and not take the box of candy approach, except in matters of decor ... here, by contrast, the colours are also very muted (except for the odd detail: Louis Garrel's lemon-coloured sweater, or Grégoire Leprince-Ringuet's orange undershorts), often beige, conveying a wintry Paris, or often the scenes are shot at night. Paris is like another character in the film. The whole thing feels incredibly alive, and it seems to yield more with repeated viewings. The developments in the story are surprising and well handled in terms of pacing, and there is a real sense of emotion, although it is never melodramatic and punctures the kind of black-and-white emotional states you get in that genre or, say, in opera. The menage a trois at the beginning refers back to nouvelle vague films but is here taken as a starting point. It is interesting to see how Honore shows family life as well as the romantic side of life, something we don't always see in films about young people. This too is done with considerable grace ... The actors are uniformly excellent - Louis Garrel has an iconic presence yet is quite low-key - and sing very well in the style. There's a wonderful scene where a dead person's head, enlarged, sings over his shoulder against the night sky. One of the best things in the film is the idea of 'loving for the sake of the gesture', explored really quite movingly, and, of course, ambiguously ... I can't think of any other film where this idea is present, and even if it is a little idealistic, such a romantic film certainly makes it seem very beguiling.
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alain66
5.0 out of 5 stars l'édition de référence
Reviewed in France on January 10, 2011
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la version collector est composée du DVD du film avec bande annonce filmographies et commentaire audio de christophe honoré et d'alex baupain, du dvd bonus avec une interview passionnante de christophe honoré, d'un dîner animé avec les principaux acteurs ( ludivine sagnier, clotilde hesme, chiara mastroiani, louis garrel, grégoire leprince-ringuet et christophe honoré ( tourné par le réalisateur lui-même avec éclairage naturel, son un peu faible par moment)très interressant , la conférence de presse à cannes et une séance d'enregistrement des chansons entre alex baupain, ludivine sagnier et clotilde hesme. L'édition collector contient également le cd audio des chansons du film. cette édition est donc une édition de référence, on peut l'acheter même si on a déjà la version simple du film car on apprend beaucoup de choses ( c'est ce que j'ai fait!!). bref les bonus allient académisme ( conférence de cannes ) et originalité ( le dîner animé). Quant au film en lui-même quoi rajouter de plus sinon que c'est du pur bonheur!
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