“Trois amis”, Emmanuel Mouret’s twelfth feature film released on November 6, sees actresses Sara Forestier, Camille Cottin and India Hair confronted with the eternal loving dialectic of truth and lies. But the French filmmaker’s sentimental chronicle is tinged with drama this time.
Joan (India Hair) is no longer in love with Victor and suffers from feeling dishonest with him. Alice (Camille Cottin), her best friend, reassures her: she herself feels no passion for Eric and yet their relationship is doing wonderfully! She doesn’t know that he is having an affair with Rebecca (Sara Forestier), their mutual friend. When Joan finally decides to leave Victor (Vincent Macaigne) and he disappears, the lives of the three friends and their stories are turned upside down.
As always with films written and directed by Emmanuel Mouret, “Trois amis” is about both love and disenchantment, but this time against a dramatic background. After “Chronicle of a temporary affair” and “The things we say, the things we do”, Emmanuel Mouret further expands his register of sentimental chronicles and desire by interweaving small love at first sight and big misunderstandings , adultery and lies.
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Characters who break down and get back up
The French filmmaker’s twelfth feature film, “Trois amis” is a new variation on the unpredictability of life, where certainties are shaken up and where tragedy finds lighter counterpoints thanks to secondary characters.
“What interests me in my characters is that they are divided by contrary wishes. This wish to be good people, to respect social rules and to keep one’s commitments. But also the wish to be honest with yourself, with what you feel, with your desires”, indicates Emmanuel Mouret in the Vertigo show on November 7. The French filmmaker likes nothing more than the characters in his films breaking down and getting back up, making mistakes and getting back on their path, constantly fumbling.
So with these “Three Friends”, three heroines who face the loving dialectic of truth and lies each in their own way and do what they can, that is to say the best. Without morals or judgment, Emmanuel Mouret subtly depicts the inconstancy of love by intertwining destinies.
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“Three friends” by Emmanuel Mouret, with Camille Cottin, Sara Forestier, India Hair, Vincent Macaigne. To be seen in French-speaking cinemas since November 6, 2024.
