The Young Lovers

2021 [FRENCH]

Action / Drama / Romance

Plot summary

Elegant, retired architect Shauna (70) crosses paths with Pierre, a happily married doctor in his 40s, who first made an impression on her in a brief meeting 15 years previously. Both are quite troubled to meet again and begin an affair. While Pierre’s family life is soon turned upside down, Shauna struggles with feelings she thought belonged to the past.



October 26, 2023 at 12:56 PM

Director

Carine Tardieu

Top cast

Cécile De France as Jeanne Escande
Fanny Ardant as Shauna Loszinsky
Melvil Poupaud as Pierre Escande
Florence Loiret Caille as Cécilia
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1.02 GB
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French 2.0
NR
24 fps
1 hr 53 min
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French 5.1
NR
24 fps
1 hr 53 min
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French 2.0
NR
24 fps
1 hr 53 min
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French 5.1
NR
24 fps
1 hr 53 min
Seeds 7

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by claytons-247-235960 8 / 10

A different love affair

A different love affair, very well done. Why is it that we unthinking accept older men with much younger women, but jib at the reverse? Fanny Ardant might well change some minds - this was unquestionably a great role for her. Fortunately the rest of the cast are up to her standard. Some humour, some pathos, and a story line that knows where it's going, though perhaps falters a little at the end (a couple of times I thought, is this the closing shot? When it wasn't)

Well filmed in a variety of locations - though I doubt the Kinsale tourist bureau will be promoting this film! Most attractive and appropriate music, too.

Reviewed by km768 10 / 10

Love French Cliché

The beauty of the film lies in this fine and delicate way of describing the existential brilliance that such an encounter can give rise to, and the explosions that it will inevitably cause in the entourage of the protagonists. The secondary characters are incredibly strong, the script takes the time to make them exist, giving them a depth in their own existence. And not to forget that we watch french movie, here are some cliches to be seen as usual: deep, original smoking-not pretending, full apartments with everything especially books and paintings. And of course the French Bistros.

Reviewed by Aatchoum 3 / 10

A web of lies

Very well directed and acted. And it's all.

Because the script is a web of lies. The screenwriter tries to make us believe that in real life it is possible for a 45-year-old oncologist and a 70-year-old woman to really fall in love with each other. It's absurd. And it's so stupid to make believe that older women would fall in love with oncologists while young women would be more seduced by emergency doctors... But in an ideal world where no one is afraid of the gaze of others? In an ideal world, the 45-year-old husband does not cheat on his wife and children to go with a 70-year-old wife, and the 70-year-old wife does not try to turn the 45-year-old husband away from his wife and children. Yes, but he is an oncologist specializing in experimental treatments : -> Just because he specializes in experimental chemotherapy doesn't mean he has to specialize in experimental love... And this oncologist also knows how Parkinson's disease evolves, and he also knows that many other diseases and a whole host of ill health can plague the daily lives of older people, and a fall is more likely to cause a femoral neck fracture than a simple bone crack. Each age has its pleasures and one should not mix the generations neither at this age, nor at an even more advanced age, nor younger. My thinking, and this kind of film won't make me change it, is: above all, you have to enjoy life when you're young because time passes very quickly, and you have to learn to manage your loneliness other than by drinking alcohol and smoking cigarettes (the 2 characters in the film who suffer from loneliness smoke like chimneys) because sooner or later we are all alone. And no need for a cinema that pretends to have found an experimental sentimental remedy. I wasted 2 hours of my time. And the time lost cannot be made up.

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SahibDM September 15, 2022 at 04:12 pm

Awesome movie. I love this beautiful actress Fanny Ardant.