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IFC like their ballads like Honore’s ‘Love Songs’

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All love songs tell the same story: 'Too many love you'…'I couldn’t live without you'…'Sorry Angel'. Love songs tell this too.

It was perhaps one of the least favorite in competition films among critics at the last Cannes, but was a big hit among French filmgoers this past summer. THR announces that DVD outfit Red Envelope and IFC First Take have picked up Love Songs. I personally haven’t seen Christophe Honore's French musical but it’s got a healthy, youthful trio of players in Louis Garrel (“The Dreamers”), Ludivine Sagnier (“Swimming Pool”) and Chiara Mastroianni (“Persepolis“).

Honoré the French writer and film director born in Bretagne, France has also release stateside Ma Mere in 04' and another IFC release earlier this month with In Paris (Dans Paris).

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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).

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