The French film Beating Hearts (L’Amour Ouf) by Gilles Lellouche had its world premiere at the Cannes Film Festival. The modern Romeo and Juliet tale, directed by Lellouche and co-written with Ahmed Hamidi and Audrey Diwan, was a competition entry by Studiocanal.
The film follows the story of two former childhood sweethearts from different backgrounds who reconnect years later after the boy gets involved in gang violence and is wrongly accused of murder. Starring François Civil and Adèle Exarchopoulos, the cast also includes Raphaël Quenard, Benoît Poelvoorde, Elodie Bouchez, Vincent Lacoste, Alain Chabat, and Jean-Pascal Zadi.
Set in the tough suburbs of Dublin in the 1980s, the story is based on the 1997 novel Jackie Loves Johnser OK? by Irish writer Neville Thompson. Director Lellouche expressed his passion for the story at Unifrance’s Paris Rendez-Vous: “I fell in love with this book and this story about a violent love story. I jumped into this adventure with Ahmed Hamidi and Audrey Diwan.”
Studiocanal plans to release the film in France on October 16th.
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