Love Affair(s)

Selected for this year’s Cannes Film Festival, Love Affair(s) is a charming romantic comedy about the many practical and philosophical challenges of love. Waiting for her boyfriend François to join her in the French countryside, pregnant Daphne is left to entertain his handsome cousin Maxime. Alone together over four days Daphne and Maxime offer up increasingly intimate insights into their relationships both past and present. Director Emmanuel Mouret playfully weaves together the stories, presenting a wide range of perspectives on love, sex and infidelity.

‘I enjoyed making a film that was very “narrative”, where lots of tales overlap. It has something of a funnel-shaped structure to it, where lots of stories slowly condense. I was interested in allowing these different tales to co-exist… I really like parentheses within parentheses, stories within stories, stories layered on top of stories, stories which create other stories. I also wanted people to really get inside the complexity of each character, to be able to feel an attachment to them, to understand them, to know all the ins and outs so as to be able to empathise with each of them right up to the very end, and not have to take one side over another.’

Emmanuel Mouret, Director