Lelouch Spans the Decades with ‘Ces amours-là’

This week Claude Lelouch began lensing Ces amours-là, his 45th film is you can believe that. Filmed in parts of the Beaune region in France and in Romania’s Bucharest, the picture is said to be some using vintage footage that Lelouch filmed over the past decades to compliment a story about one woman’s romantic life.

Audrey Dana (who was among the trio of leads in Lelouch’s previous film Roman de Gare) plays the woman who reflects back the flings she had with a pair of French men, two Americans and a German. The film follows her over a twenty year span between 1940 all the way up to 1960. Looking at the time period, I’m guessing that the 2nd World War might offer on of the backdrops to one of the five narratives. Dana is re-teaming with Dominique Pinon and the film will also see legend Anouk Aimée, Judith Magre, Christine Citti, Jacky Ido, Salomé Lelouch and the singer Raphael.

Ces amours-là will be shooting for eight weeks and will be released sometime in 2010 with a track record that Lelouch, this film will most likely see a domestic U.S. release.