Anaïs in Love

Anaïs in Love (French: Les Amours d'Anaïs) is a 2021 French comedy film directed by Charline Bourgeois-Tacquet. The film was shown in the International Critics' Week section at the 2021 Cannes Film Festival.[2]

Anaïs in Love
Theatrical release poster
Directed byCharline Bourgeois-Tacquet
Written byCharline Bourgeois-Tacquet
Produced by
  • Igor Auzépy
  • Stéphane Demoustier
  • Philippe Martin
  • David Thion
Starring
CinematographyNoé Bach
Edited byChantal Hymans
Music byNicola Piovani
Distributed byMagnolia Pictures
Release date
  • 10 July 2021 (2021-07-10) (Cannes)
Running time
98 minutes
CountryFrance
LanguagesFrench
English
Box office$467,620[1]

Plot

Follows Anaïs, a 30-year-old woman who is broke and has a lover she thinks she does not love anymore. She meets Daniel, an older married man who immediately falls for her. Meanwhile, Anaïs falls for Daniel's wife Emilie at a writer's symposium.

Cast

Production

The film was shot on the Brittany peninsula and in the city of Nantes in France.[3]

Critical reception

On review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, 90% of 69 reviews are positive, with an average rating of 6.7/10. The site's critics' consensus reads: "The main character may be hard to like, but Anaïs in Love offers a well-acted and breezily humorous take on its admittedly well-worn themes."[4] On Metacritic, the film has a weighted average score of 73 out of 100, based on 18 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews".[5]

The film was a New York Times Critic's Pick. Manohla Dargis wrote that the movie seems straightforward, looking "clear and bright", and moving "as briskly as its protagonist, with the editing and lively music doing more conspicuous work than the discreet cinematography."[6] In a review for The Wrap, Katie Walsh wrote the style is as breathless and entertaining as the film's protagonist."[7] In a positive review for Indiewire David Ehrlich wrote "If anything, Bourgeois-Tacquet's debut comes off as a deliberate effort to wrench a proud Gallic tradition — manically effervescent movies about motor-mouthed young neurotics — away from the foreign cineastes who've co-opted it for the 21st century, and return it to home soil where it might reconnect with its roots."[8]

References

  1. "Anaïs in Love". Box Office Mojo. IMDb. Retrieved 27 May 2022.
  2. Lang, Brett (16 July 2021). "Cannes: Magnolia Pictures Buys 'Anais in Love' (EXCLUSIVE)". Variety. Retrieved 30 April 2022.
  3. Saito, Stephen (28 April 2022). "Charline Bourgeois-Tacquet and Anaïs Demoustier on Redefining a Romantic Getaway in "Anais in Love"". The Moveable Feast. Retrieved 1 May 2022.
  4. "Anaïs in Love (2021)". Rotten Tomatoes. Fandango. Retrieved 30 April 2022.
  5. "Anaïs in Love". Metacritic. CBS Interactive Inc. Retrieved 30 April 2022.
  6. Dargis, Manohla (28 April 2022). "'Anaïs in Love' Review: Portrait of a Woman on the Run". New York Times. Retrieved 1 May 2022.
  7. Walsh, Katie (28 April 2022). "'Anais in Love' Film Review: Quirky French Sex Comedy Reveals a Complex Character Study". The Wrap. The Wrap News Inc. Retrieved 1 May 2022.
  8. Ehrlich, David (29 April 2022). "'Anaïs in Love' Review: A Delightful French Twist on 'The Worst Person in the World'". Indiewire. Penske Media Corporation. Retrieved 1 May 2022.
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