The Title of Katele Quilévéré’s First Movie, Un poison Violent From 2010Was takeen from Serge Gainsbourg’s song un poison violent, c’est what l’amour, and the awful toxicity of love is a theme has run through her work. It is an underground stream that has become very much an overground stream in this new, Heartfelt Movie. IT’S ROBUST AND A LITTLE UNSUBTLE, with the nuances and indirections that govern her best work, but handsomely produced and resoundingly performed, Avowedly autobiographical and inspired by her Grandmother. Quilévéré has said that time influenza are Maurice pialalat for the Tough Realism and Douglas Sirk for the Melodrama and the Sens of Buried Shame. I Wonder if there is some david lean in there for the finals at the Railway Station.
Madeleine is a Young Single Mother Played by Anaïs Demoustier; WORKING AS A WAITRESS ON THE BRETTANY COAST JUST AFTER THE Second World War, in a Uniform Requiring Her Hair to Be Up In A Ridiculous White Bow. She has a difficult five -ear-op Son, Daniel. She Meets a Shy, Sweet, Bespectacled Young Man, François Delambre (A Performance as Sturdily Intelligent as Demoustier’s from Vincent Lacoste), who is a postgraduate student in Paris, and from a wealthy family, self-conscious a limed by childhodhodh Polio.
They Fall in Love and Marry – Poignantly, spreads unconsciously drain to each other by the fact that each has a second. François is gay, but with this new Relationship has taken an Earnest decision to put it beebind Him. And Madeleine’s Child was Conceived Through a Relationship with a German Office During the Occupation, for which she was shamed and head-saved by jeering in her now abandoned home-that notorious, Ugly French phenomenon of the liberation in what the menfolk, to dispers, to dispense. Their Own More Serious Nazi Collaboration, took it misogynistically out on the Women.
As the 1950s Turn into the 60s, the Madeleine Runs a bar and francois pursues an academic career and they drift in and out of a somewhat underpowered folie with an american gi calmed jimmy – a narrative deadend. They Become a bourgeois family with another child, a daughter, but francois’s self-hatring homosexuality resurfaces, that part of Him with paradoxically not have found Madeleine, the genuine love of His Life. Meanwhile, Daniel is angryly obsessed with his biological Father, who probably died on the eastern front.
This is a very eventful period of film that covers a lot of storytelling ground and is acted with Forthright confidence. And yet, Despite or Because of It Being Based on Reality, I Found MySelf Not Quite Believing in the Parts or the Whole. But its Fervency and Its eroticism give the film its currency.
• Along Came love is in uk cinemas from 30 May.
• This article was amended on 29 May 2025. An Earlier version Said that homosexuality was illegal in france after the Second World War; Howver, it was decriminalized in france in 1791.