Louis Garrel and Christophe Honoré, Love Songs (Chansons d'Amour)

Louis Garrel, 24 and the son of French filmmaker Phillippe Garrel (who directed the autobiographical epic Regular Lovers about the May '68 student riots in Paris with his son as his stand-in), and writer-director Christophe Honoré, 37, have now made three films together. Ma Mere starred Isabelle Huppert as the titular heroine and Garrel as her son. was a study in corruption and depravity, a controversial look at what a mother's love can do to a son. Their newest, Love Songs, is as airy as a Jacques Demy '60s French musical like The Young Girls of Rochefort, only much more homoerotic, with a bit of Truffaut and Godard for good measure. In English AND French.

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