The Art of Love (2011)
A Arte de Amar (2011)
DVD5 | ISO+MDS | NTSC 16:9 | 01:25:17 | 4,34 Gb
Audio: French AC3 5.1/2.0 @ 448/192 Kbps; Portuguese AC3 2.0 @ 192 Kbps
Subtitles: English, Portuguese
Genre: Comedy
DVD5 | ISO+MDS | NTSC 16:9 | 01:25:17 | 4,34 Gb
Audio: French AC3 5.1/2.0 @ 448/192 Kbps; Portuguese AC3 2.0 @ 192 Kbps
Subtitles: English, Portuguese
Genre: Comedy
Director: Emmanuel Mouret
At the moment the precise instant we fall in love, a particular music plays within us. For every one of us,the music is different and can strike up when we least expect.
Through a series of vignettes in which all things romantic and sexual are discussed and obsessed over, The Art of Love follows the intertwining lives, loves and lusts of a group of Parisians. Isabelle has not had sex in a year. She declines an offer from her friend Zoe to borrow her husband and instead winds up impersonating another friend in a blind affair where identities remain secret. Singleton Achille thinks his prayers have been answered when his sexy new neighbour knocks on his door in a negligee. Then there is a middle-aged couple whose marriage is threatened when wife Emmanuelle finds herself lusting after every attractive man she lays eyes upon. All while a pair of young lovers discover the pangs of jealousy. Will lust or love triumph in this playful romantic comedy?
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Original title: L'art d'aimer (2011)
The Art of Love (2011)
I was shocked with the "crap" review here. I wish you guys learned French and read a bit about this film on allocine.fr for example. It's not a rip-off from Woody Allen, the director admits that he loves Woody Allen, Eric Rohmer et al. And yes, "L'art d'aimer" was influenced by those masters. Be warned, if you prefer r'n'b over Mozart and Schubert you will have hard time watching this. And maybe that guy is right, the director doesn't know "the life". Because that Frenchie is not from Pittsburgh after all. The film is based on Emmanuel Mouret personal notes about love and life, each story is like a visual illustration to another thought. So just relax and watch, it's all about love, nothing else.IMDB Reviewer,
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The Art of Love (2011)
As its title suggests (at least for the classically minded), Emmanuel Mouret's latest humorous study on the vagaries of the human heart takes its cue from Ovid's Ars amatoria (The Art of Love), a first century handbook on how to snare your ideal partner and stop others from filching her. Mouret sticks to his tried and tested formula, combining a Rohmeresque acuity for romantic entanglement with a penchant for farce that lies somewhere between Marivaux and Woody Allen, but on this occasion he departs from the complex extended narrative of his previous films and opts instead for the skittish lightness of the anthology film. Backed to the hilt by an all-star cast of jaw-dropping proportions, the director explores the many facets of desire and seduction through a series of amusing vignettes, in what is very nearly an updated version of the classic French film La Ronde (1950), only much, much funnier.
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By its very nature, L'Art d'aimer doesn't have quite the gravitas of Mouret's previous films. No sooner have we settled down to enjoy one promising flight of fancy, we are whisked away to the next, and so attempts to expand on more complex themes are brutally curtailed or left dangling in midair. This is more the fault of the anthology format than of the film itself, which could explain why this kind of film has gone out of fashion - these days, cinema audiences expect something far more substantial than a mere collation of tasty titbits. An accomplished screenwriter as well as a fine film director, Mouret manages to get round the limitations of the format by ensuring that the separate stories do interlock together well and ultimately succeed in forming a coherent and satisfying whole, whilst having sufficient diversity to prevent the audience from losing interest.
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Like Woody Allen (a director he greatly admires and is clearly most influenced by) Mouret has a particular talent for finding absurdity in everyday situations and developing these into irresistibly funny routines without losing sight of the underlying reality. No matter how utterly absurd and contrived the situations become in Mouret's films, they all retain that essential ring of truth about them, and so whilst it is easy to laugh at his protagonists as they become hopelessly tangled up in Cupid's machinations, we cannot but reflect on the sad truths that underlie each of their predicaments. Comedy and tragedy are, as we all know, two sides of the same coin, if not the same side viewed from different angles.
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Whilst all of the vignettes are well-scripted and superbly performed, the one that stands out is that which features François Cluzet and Frédérique Bel, an improbable pairing that works so well you can't help wishing the duo will headline Mouret's next film. Ariane Ascaride, not particularly well-known as a comedy performer, gives great entertainment value as a female Don Juan whose amorous proclivities can be put down to a tragic inability to find her ideal soul mate. Gaspard Ulliel and Elodie Navarre are equally delightful as a young couple whose seemingly perfect romance is threatened (as it always is) by an adulterous interlude. Other stars include Julie Depardieu, Judith Godrèche and Louis-Do de Lencquesaing, all surprisingly at home with Mouret's blend of off-the-wall humour and Rohmeresque introspection.
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For anyone who has yet to enter the wacky world of Emmanuel Mouret, L'Art d'aimer is probably the best introduction to his work, something to give you an appetite for his previous, meatier offerings, such as Changement d'adresse (2006) and Un baiser s'il vous plaît (2007). For those who have already succumbed to Mouret's unique brand of flirtatious comedy, his latest galloping dose of sentimental education will not disappoint, and will doubtless leave you hungry for more.
The Art of Love (2011)
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