Young French Cinema 2024: No Love Lost (2024)
- Mon, Sep 9
Director: Erwann Le Duc Run Time: 91 min. Rating: NR Release Year: 2023
Starring: Céleste Brunnquell, Maud Wyler, Nahuel Pérez Biscayart
Country: France
Language: French
Young French Cinema 2024
Discover a new generation of directors, presented at the Film Center from Sept 6 – 12, 2024.
About the film:
Official Selection, 2023 Cannes Film Festival Critics Week
Étienne is barely twenty when he falls in love with Valérie. They are hardly any more when their daughter Rosa is born. And then, one day, Valérie leaves and never returns. He chooses not to make a drama of it and builds a happy life for him and his child. Sixteen years later, when Rosa is about to lead her own life, Étienne recognizes his wife on television. The past brutally resurfaces, and father and daughter are propelled into one last chaotic family journey.
“Ice-cream aesthetic and an orchestral score which is so dominant it can make the film look like accompanying imagery.”
— Fionnuala Halligan, Screen Daily
About the filmmaker:
Born long ago in faraway Les Lilas, Erwan Le Duc wrote and directed The Bare Necessity (2019), a film presented at the 2019 Director’s Fortnight, as well as several short films including The Virgin Soldier (2016), selected for Cannes’ International Critics’ Weeks. In 2023, he directed Under Control, a series created by Charly Delwart, which recently won an award at the Series Mania Festival. Priorly, and sometimes even at the same time, he was a journalist for the daily newspaper Le Monde, and a Liaison Officer for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Ministry of Culture. Selected for support by the Gan Foundation for Cinema in 2021, he is presenting his second feature film, No Love Lost (2023), as the closing film at Cannes’ International Critic’s Week 2023.
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