Les Chansons d'amour

Friday 14h until Thursday 20th December 2007 | 4.30pm, 6.45pm (Mon only), 9.00pm (Mon) and 9.15pm (Tue to Thu) book tickets

1hr 36, France 2007.  Directed by Christophe Honoré.  With Ludivine Sagnier and Louis Garrel.

Ismaël (Garrel, Dans Paris) and Julie (Sagnier, Swimming Pool) are beautiful twenty-somethings who have been together for eight years and find that their relationship is becoming a little flat. Bringing Alice (Clotilde Hesme), Ismaël's co-worker, into the relationship has created a comfortable ménage à trois, but also made other issues more apparent. Then tragedy strikes, and Ismaël struggles to make sense of his life and move on. Think Everyone Says I Love You meets Jacques Demy’s The Umbrellas of Cherbourg and you get a fair inkling of the charm on display in this beguiling musical, in which the numbers are effortlessly, joyfully woven into each scene, so that when the characters break into song, it seems entirely natural.