MacGuffin
07-24-2008, 06:26 AM
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Louis Garrel stars as Ismaël, a young supercilious romantic who requests the admiration of not only his girlfriend Julie (Ludivine Sagnier), but also of his flirtatious coworker Alice (Clotilde Hesme). Aftering Alice agrees to help weld the relationship closer together by way of ménage Ã* trois through an aforementioned musical number, the characters are met with great misfortune.
Julie moves into cardiac arrest outside of a nightclub one evening and dies, leaving her family as well as Ismaël and Alice to cope.
Recycling the structure of The Umbrellas of Cherbourg, Love Songs is told in three parts: The Departure, The Absence, and The Return. However, unlike the former, Love Songs endeavors to use these title cards to explore the internal emotions of the characters rather than portraying characters making decisions as a result of their troubles like Demy's movie did. Unfortunately, while it's the ambitious thought that counts, Honoré only makes half-assed attempts at realizing what his characters are going through. Oh sure, it's evident in the way he films them blending in with the beautiful Paris night, that he holds them in high regard, but
after Julie's death, the movie goes downhill and does little more than portraying them crying or walking around at night. Ismaël in particular seems to become unexplainably churlish, or as he puts it: "melancholy". He resorts to sleeping with men and women with hopes of finding love, but never singing about it or really showing it towards others.
Louis Garrel stars as Ismaël, a young supercilious romantic who requests the admiration of not only his girlfriend Julie (Ludivine Sagnier), but also of his flirtatious coworker Alice (Clotilde Hesme). Aftering Alice agrees to help weld the relationship closer together by way of ménage Ã* trois through an aforementioned musical number, the characters are met with great misfortune.
Julie moves into cardiac arrest outside of a nightclub one evening and dies, leaving her family as well as Ismaël and Alice to cope.
Recycling the structure of The Umbrellas of Cherbourg, Love Songs is told in three parts: The Departure, The Absence, and The Return. However, unlike the former, Love Songs endeavors to use these title cards to explore the internal emotions of the characters rather than portraying characters making decisions as a result of their troubles like Demy's movie did. Unfortunately, while it's the ambitious thought that counts, Honoré only makes half-assed attempts at realizing what his characters are going through. Oh sure, it's evident in the way he films them blending in with the beautiful Paris night, that he holds them in high regard, but
after Julie's death, the movie goes downhill and does little more than portraying them crying or walking around at night. Ismaël in particular seems to become unexplainably churlish, or as he puts it: "melancholy". He resorts to sleeping with men and women with hopes of finding love, but never singing about it or really showing it towards others.