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2023 Cannes Clip: Rémy & Sandra Are Super Open in Ann Sirot & Raphaël Balboni’s The (Ex)perience of Love

Published on May 8, 2023

Sure to add some spice and throw some intellectual stimuli to what is the norm for the heteronormative — Belgium filmmaker tandem Ann Sirot and Raphaël Balboni bring some laughs to the Critics’ Week (05.20) with The (Ex)perience of Love aka Le Syndrome des Amours Passées. The Special Screening selection tells the tale of Rémy (Lazare Gousseau) and Sandra (Lucie Debay) cannot procreate as they are suffering from “The Past Love Syndrome”. There’s only one cure: have sex one more time with all of their exes. In this clip the couple need to make that weird phone call to their exes.

Eric Lavallée

Eric Lavallée is the founder, CEO, editor-in-chief, film journalist and critic at IONCINEMA.com (founded in 2000). Eric is a regular at Sundance, Cannes and TIFF. He has a BFA in Film Studies at the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema. In 2013 he served as a Narrative Competition Jury Member at the SXSW Film Festival. He was an associate producer on Mark Jackson's This Teacher (2018 LA Film Festival, 2018 BFI London). In 2022 he served as a New Flesh Comp for Best First Feature at the 2022 Fantasia Intl. Film Festival. Current top films for 2022 include Tár (Todd Field), All That Breathes (Shaunak Sen), Aftersun (Charlotte Wells).