L?Amour dure trois ans
3? stars out of five
Starring: Gaspard Proust, Louise Bourgoin, Joey Starr, Jonathan Lambert, Fr?d?rique Bel.
Playing: in French at Beaubien, Boucherville, Longueuil, Pont Viau, Quartier Latin, St. Eustache and Starcit? cinemas
Parents? guide: Mild sex scene
L?Amour dure trois ans, the feature directorial debut from noted French novelist Fr?d?ric Beigbeder, is a charming little romantic comedy that reminded me a bit of 500 Days of Summer, minus the killer new wave soundtrack.
This French film does sport some cool musical moments, including a just-brilliant version of Elton John?s Your Song courtesy of British sensation Ellie Goulding during the opening sequence and an appearance by iconic French composer and pianist Michel Legrand, who sings and tinkles the ivories by the ocean right near the grand finale.
It?s a fun, if slight, offering, and what surprised me was how Beigbeder?s adaptation of his own 1997 is so conventional. I was expecting something a little more out there, more like director Jan Kounen?s inspired 2007 film take on another Beigbeder novel.
L?Amour dure trois ans starts in promising fashion, with a clip of beatnik novelist Charles Bukowski saying that ?love is a fog that burns off with the first daylight of reality.? That?s a philosophy shared by Marc Marronnier (Gaspard Proust). He?s a literary critic and nightlife columnist who divorces Anne (Elisa Sednaoui) near the beginning of the film and comes to the conclusion that love has a three-year shelf life.
But this hypothesis is sorely tested when he bumps into ? and promptly falls deeply under the spell of ? Alice, played by the irritatingly radiant and charismatic Louise Bourgoin. He meets her at his grandmother?s funeral and such is the force of the attraction that he?s not going to let a small detail like the fact that?s she in a relationship with his cousin get in the way of his amorous attentions.
Alice falls for him, too, but the rules of the romantic-comedy genre demand that the two lovers are torn apart, and that?s exactly what happens. Marc has written a novel, L?Amour dure trois ans, espousing his theory about the time limit on any love affair and he has used a pseudonym. The book is the cause of the rupture, though it?s not really giving much away to suggest this flick will end like every other romantic comedy ever made.
Along the way, there are loads of witty lines. Like when Alice splits with him, an exasperated Marc tells a friend: ?It?s catastrophic. She wants us to be friends. Friendship is like love without sex.?
Proust is very good, mixing erudite arrogance with self-deprecating angst, and Bourgoin has us totally believing this guy?s willing to change all his ideas to be with her. But in the end, it?s all too conventional, lacking, say, the wackiness of 99 francs or the loopy narrative structure of 500 Days of Summer. But what saves L?Amour is the too-smart rapid-fire dialogue that reminds us we?re watching a French film, that most talky of national cinemas, written and directed by one of that country?s top wordsmiths.
Source: http://www.montrealgazette.com/entertainment/movie-guide/Review+Amour+dure+trois/7375664/story.html
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