Anaïs in Love

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Anaïs in Love
Theatrical release poster
Directed byCharline Bourgeois-Tacquet
Written byCharline Bourgeois-Tacquet
Produced by
Starring
CinematographyNoé Bach
Edited byChantal Hymans
Music byNicola Piovani
Distributed byMagnolia Pictures
Release date
  • 10 July 2021 (2021-07-10) (Cannes)
Running time
98 minutes
CountryFrance
LanguagesFrench
English
Box office$467,620[1]

Anaïs in Love (French: Les Amours d'Anaïs) is a 2021 French comedy film directed by Charline Bourgeois-Tacquet. The film was shown in the Critics' Week section at the 2021 Cannes Film Festival.[2]

Plot

Anaïs, a woman in her mid-thirties living in Paris, is feeling lost and unsure of what to do with her life. She has a tempestuous relationship with her boyfriend Raoul, and they fight and make up often. She decides to live in her expensive apartment alone. Anaïs is also procrastinating on completing her doctoral thesis on passion in the 17th century. At a party, she meets Daniel, an older publisher, who falls in love with her. Anaïs tells Raoul that she is pregnant but plans to have an abortion and leave him because she feels a lack of passion in their relationship.

When Anaïs learns that her mother has cancer, her restlessness increases. She delays meeting with her thesis supervisor and avoids paying her rent. She begins a half-hearted affair with Daniel, who confesses that he does not want to leave his partner Emilie, a well-known writer. Anaïs becomes fascinated with Emilie after seeing a photograph of her and starts reading her works. She eventually meets Emilie by chance and expresses her admiration. From there, Anaïs tries to get closer to Emilie despite the obstacles, and their desire for each other reaches a climax when they stay together at a writer's retreat.

Cast

Production

The film was shot on the Brittany peninsula and in the city of Nantes in France.[3]

Critical reception

On review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, 90% of 69 reviews are positive, with an average rating of 6.7/10. The site's critics' consensus reads: "The main character may be hard to like, but Anaïs in Love offers a well-acted and breezily humorous take on its admittedly well-worn themes."[4] On Metacritic, the film has a weighted average score of 73 out of 100, based on 18 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews".[5]

The film was a

Indiewire David Ehrlich wrote "If anything, Bourgeois-Tacquet's debut comes off as a deliberate effort to wrench a proud Gallic tradition—manically effervescent movies about motor-mouthed young neurotics—away from the foreign cineastes who've co-opted it for the 21st century, and return it to home soil where it might reconnect with its roots."[8]

References

  1. ^ "Anaïs in Love". Box Office Mojo. IMDb. Retrieved 27 May 2022.Edit this at Wikidata
  2. ^ Lang, Brett (16 July 2021). "Cannes: Magnolia Pictures Buys 'Anais in Love' (EXCLUSIVE)". Variety. Retrieved 30 April 2022.
  3. ^ Saito, Stephen (28 April 2022). "Charline Bourgeois-Tacquet and Anaïs Demoustier on Redefining a Romantic Getaway in "Anais in Love"". The Moveable Feast. Retrieved 1 May 2022.
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  6. ^ Dargis, Manohla (28 April 2022). "'Anaïs in Love' Review: Portrait of a Woman on the Run". New York Times. Retrieved 1 May 2022.
  7. ^ Walsh, Katie (28 April 2022). "'Anais in Love' Film Review: Quirky French Sex Comedy Reveals a Complex Character Study". The Wrap. The Wrap News Inc. Retrieved 1 May 2022.
  8. ^ Ehrlich, David (29 April 2022). "'Anaïs in Love' Review: A Delightful French Twist on 'The Worst Person in the World'". Indiewire. Penske Media Corporation. Retrieved 1 May 2022.

External links

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