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French film

"Jed prepares to interview French cineaste and self-appointed expert on the nature of love - Thierry Grimandi. The worldly and somewhat jaded Jed is dead-set on dismissing the auteur's musings as pompous and, well French, until his own relationship with Cheryl starts to fall apart and he is forced to re-evaluate the illusive subject. Soon everyone is talking about love: his relationship counselor, drinking buddy Marcus and Marcus' girlfriend Sophie. Beginnings, endings, tricks... could the French be on to something?"--IMDb website.

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  • "French lovers have all the answers"@en
  • "Frenchman's guide to love"@en

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  • "British romantic comedy offering a wry look at the different ways in which the French and the British approach love and romance. When he interviews French film director and self-appointed expert on love Thierry Grimandi (Eric Cantona), jaded journalist Jed (Hugh Bonneville) is forced to re-evaluate his relationship with girlfriend Cheryl (Victoria Hamilton). Meanwhile, his friend Marcus (Douglas Henshall) is struggling to keep the spark alive in his relationship with Sophie (Anne-Marie Duff)."
  • ""Jed prepares to interview French cineaste and self-appointed expert on the nature of love - Thierry Grimandi. The worldly and somewhat jaded Jed is dead-set on dismissing the auteur's musings as pompous and, well French, until his own relationship with Cheryl starts to fall apart and he is forced to re-evaluate the illusive subject. Soon everyone is talking about love: his relationship counselor, drinking buddy Marcus and Marcus' girlfriend Sophie. Beginnings, endings, tricks... could the French be on to something?"--IMDb website."@en
  • "Could it be that French is the true language of love? English journalist Jed Winter is a skeptic, and while interviewing a celebrated French filmmaker, he finds his own romantic life plays out like the plot of a French film. When his long-term girlfriend, Cheryl, refuses to marry him and instead forces him into couples counseling, Jed begins to realize that his own emotions aren't as straightforward as he once believed. It's not until his relationship falls apart that Jed truly falls in love, the French way."@en
  • "Follows two British couples living in London who try to work through their relationship woes while French filmmaker and self-proclaimed love expert Thierry Grimandi offers his perspectives on love."@en
  • "English hang-ups about romance get satirically filtered through the perspective of French movies in this witty, cinematically-literate comedy helmed by British director Jackie Oudney and scripted by Aschlin Ditta. The creators set up two narratives: in a framing device, Eric Cantona stars as the elitist, pretentious French writer-director Thierry Grimandi, who could use a lesson in humility; he operates according to the mantra, "I consider myself lucky firstly because I am French, secondly because I make movies, thirdly because I understand love." As Grimandi periodically crops up to pontificate on film and relationships, a second narrative emerges. Hugh Bonneville stars as Jed Winter, a smug, unhappy British journalist enduring a super-dysfunctional relationship with long-term girlfriend Cheryl (Victoria Hamilton). She just rejected his marriage proposal out of dissatisfaction for the lack of romantic chemistry in their relationship; they tentatively remain together, but that all seems poised to change when Jed begins to develop feelings for his friend Marcus's girl, Sophie (Anne-Marie Duff) - and it just so happens that Marcus falls for someone else, leaving the situation wide open for Jed to waltz in and sweep Sophie off her feet."

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  • "Feature films"@en
  • "Video recordings for the hearing impaired"@en
  • "Fiction films"@en
  • "Drama"
  • "Drama"@en
  • "Romantic comedy films"@en

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  • "French film - a Frenchman's guide to love"
  • "French film"
  • "French film"@en

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