Love Songs (2008)
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Reviews Counted:43
Fresh:27
Rotten:16
Average Rating:6.1/10
Consensus: Love Songs is hampered by a lack of focus, but held together by Honore's deft direction and an engaging cast.
Theatrical Release:Mar 21, 2008 Limited
Synopsis: Director Christophe Honoré pays homage to French cinema of the 1960s with LOVE SONGS (LES CHANSONS D'AMOUR). Though it borrows its structure from Jacques Demy's classic THE UMBRELLAS OF CHERBOURG,... [More]
Starring: Louis Garrel, Ludivine Sagnier, Chiara Mastroianni, Clotilde Hesme
Director: Christophe Honoré
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Reviews for Love Songs
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 7/10 |
Sweetly plays on stereotypes of the French as obsessed with romance, or at least movie musicals, so regardless of any consistency or logic, love and singing conquer all. Full Review |
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 2/5 |
You need a sweet tooth for this kind of thing and Garrel really is turning into the most irritating actor in the world, hyperactively clowning around and generally behaving like the Big Brother contestant from hell. Full Review |
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Conceived by Honore as a tribute to a dead friend, the helmer is perhaps too close to his subject, never quite able to bring himself to linger on the grief that should be at pic's core. Full Review |
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2/5 |
Starts well but loses its way in the middle section and never quite recovers, despite some catchy songs and decent performances. Full Review |
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2/5 |
It’s a story which Honoré describes as personal, so we must assume that there is some truth at least in the premise. But the decision to set the story to music undermines the emotional honesty that the piece might otherwise have had. Full Review |
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4/5 |
Sensitively using song to express grief, passion and ennui, this is a cineaste’s delight. Full Review |
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This inexpressibly tender and lovely picture suggests that [Honoré's] developing into a major talent, one who can make the spirit of classic French movies come alive in a new world. Full Review |
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3/4 |
As dark as these themes seem, in Honoré's capable hands, they become almost frothy and the perfect elements for a surprisingly joyous musical. Full Review |
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Yes, it's weird. But it's wild card weird, with that thrill of never knowing what's coming next or when these Parisians are going to get musical on us. Full Review |
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2/4 |
There's little doubt that Love Songs' reliance on mind-bogglingly ineffective musical numbers inevitably triggers its downfall... Full Review |
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2.5/4 |
It's one thing to emote through singing, but competing with the memory of a beloved classic is more than his gorgeous and talented cast can overcome. Full Review |
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3/4 |
You'll laugh. You'll swoon. Full Review |
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Oh, what a sweet, sad, sexy movie! Full Review |
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B- |
...an interesting exercise by writer/director Christophe Honore but it plays too unevenly. Full Review |
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B+ |
[Christophe] Honore drops the brightness and joy of the form into the chilly, gray winter of Paris to explore love and loss and intimacy. Full Review |
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3/4 |
Love Songs finds the magic that the great screen musicals have -- the way a sad song can nonetheless leave an audience happy, or the way two voices blending seems to create something so much bigger. Full Review |
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If you love really French films, you'll likely adore Christophe Honore's pop-musical follow-up to Dans Paris. Full Review |
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3.5/5 |
Whereas Umbrellas of Cherbourg has become timeless in its depiction of romance, Love Songs strikes a strongly contemporary note in its calm acceptance of the fluidity of desire and emotion. Full Review |
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3/4 |
While the filmmaker succeeds at keeping it real most of the time, a blazing romanticism informs the whole oddly engaging endeavor; as, of course, it should. Full Review |
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