L'Amour ouf

L'Amour ouf is an upcoming French musical romantic comedy film written and directed by Gilles Lellouche from a screenplay co-written by Audrey Diwan, Ahmed Hamidi and Julien Lambroschini, based on the 1997 Irish novel Jackie Loves Johnser OK? by Neville Thompson. It stars François Civil and Adèle Exarchopoulos. The ensemble cast includes Mallory Wanecque, Malik Frikah, Alain Chabat, Benoît Poelvoorde, Vincent Lacoste, Jean-Pascal Zadi, Élodie Bouchez, Karim Leklou, Raphaël Quenard and Anthony Bajon.

L'Amour ouf
Directed byGilles Lellouche
Screenplay by
  • Gilles Lellouche
  • Audrey Diwan
  • Ahmed Hamidi
  • Julien Lambroschini
Based onJackie Loves Johnser OK?
by Neville Thompson
Produced by
  • Alain Attal[1]
  • Hugo Sélignac[1]
Starring
Production
companies
  • Chi-Fou-Mi Productions[1]
  • Trésor Films[1]
Distributed byStudioCanal[1]
Release date
  • 16 October 2024 (2024-10-16)[2]
CountryFrance[1]
LanguageFrench[1]
Budget

The film will be released in France by StudioCanal on 16 October 2024.

Plot

The story spans 20 years and begins in the North East of France with two teenagers who fall madly in love, a girl from an upper-middle-class family and a boy from a working-class family. Their love story is quickly doomed to failure when he ends up becoming a criminal and spends 12 years in prison.

Cast

Production

Development

On 2 September 2013, Gilles Lellouche said in an interview for the French radio station France Inter that he was going to direct an adaptation of Neville Thompson's 1997 Irish novel Jackie Loves Johnser OK?.[3][4] Lellouche described the project as "an ultra-violent romantic comedy".[3] It was actor Benoît Poelvoorde who gave Lellouche a copy of the book and told him he should adapt it into a film.[5] Lellouche fell in love with the story and started writing the screenplay together with Poelvoorde, but it did not work out, so Lellouche decided to continue writing alone.[5] Lellouche then co-wrote the screenplay with Audrey Diwan, Ahmed Hamidi and Julien Lambroschini, who started writing it in 2019.[5]

On 9 July 2021, a teaser poster for the film describing it as "an ultra-violent musical and romantic comedy" with a 2023 release date on it was unveiled in a special issue of Variety at the Marché du Film during the Cannes Film Festival, but the cast was still unknown.[6]

The film is a co-production between Chi-Fou-Mi Productions and Trésor Films with a budget of €32 million ($34 million),[1] marking it as StudioCanal's biggest investment in a French-language film.[1] Producers Alain Attal and Hugo Sélignac described L'Amour ouf as "a love rollercoaster, mixing love, violence and dance."[1] The dance collective (La)Horde was hired to create three dances for the film.[1] The score will feature 1980s and 1990s songs from artists such as The Cure, New Order, Madonna, Nas, and Jay-Z.[1] The film is set in the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s.[7]

Casting

François Civil and Adèle Exarchopoulos were announced in the lead roles in a casting call published on 7 February 2023,[8] which also announced that filming would take place between May and September 2023.[9] Lellouche had previously co-starred with Civil and Exarchopoulos in the 2021 film BAC Nord, whose screenplay was co-written by Audrey Diwan.[10]

Élodie Bouchez was announced in the cast on 28 March 2023.[11] The full cast (Mallory Wanecque, Malik Frikah, Alain Chabat, Benoît Poelvoorde, Vincent Lacoste, Jean-Pascal Zadi, Karim Leklou, Raphaël Quenard and Anthony Bajon) was revealed on 21 May 2023,[2] when producer Hugo Sélignac shared on Instagram the poster for the film that was featured on the cover of that day's issue of the French magazine Le Film français.[12]

Filming

Filming began on 9 May 2023.[13] The 18-week shoot is expected to wrap in September 2023.[1][9] Filming will take place in several regions of France such as Villeneuve-d'Ascq,[14] Dunkirk, Lille, Douai, Valenciennes, Cambrai, Avesnes-sur-Helpe, Calais, Saint-Omer, Béthune, Lens, Arras, Boulogne-sur-Mer and Montreuil-sur-Mer,[15] and at the Institut Saint-Henri de Comines in Comines-Warneton in Belgium.[16]

Release

L'Amour ouf became the first film to be co-acquired by Canal Plus, Netflix and France Télévisions.[1]

StudioCanal will release the film in France on 16 October 2024.[2][12][1]

References
  1. Keslassy, Elsa (18 May 2023). "French Hitmakers Hugo Selignac, Alain Attal Set for Banner 2024 With Studiocanal and Netflix on Gilles Lellouche's 'L'Amour Ouf,' and With WB, HBO Max on Boukherma Brothers' Next Film (EXCLUSIVE)". Variety. Archived from the original on 24 May 2023. Retrieved 25 May 2023.
  2. Sélignac, Hugo (21 May 2023). "L'Amour Ouf le film de @autopromodegilleslellouche sortira le 16 Octobre 2024 au Cinéma". Instagram (in French). Archived from the original on 22 May 2023. Retrieved 25 May 2023.
  3. "Gilles Lellouche à la réalisation d'une "comédie romantique ultra-violente" !" [Gilles Lellouche directing an "ultra-violent romantic comedy"!]. AlloCiné (in French). 3 September 2013. Archived from the original on 12 May 2023. Retrieved 25 May 2023.
  4. Goodfellow, Melanie (12 May 2013). "Alain Attal: first blood". ScreenDaily. Archived from the original on 15 May 2016. Retrieved 25 May 2023.
  5. Dupuis, Marion (14 May 2023). "Gilles Lellouche et Audrey Diwan, amis prodigieux : «Ce qui nous lie à jamais, c'est la joie de voir l'autre réussir»" [Gilles Lellouche and Audrey Diwan, prodigious friends: "What binds us forever is the joy of seeing the other succeed"]. Madame Figaro (in French). Archived from the original on 14 May 2023. Retrieved 25 May 2023.
  6. Forhan, Laëtitia (9 July 2021). "L'Amour Ouf : Gilles Lellouche va réaliser l'adaptation" [L'Amour Ouf: Gilles Lellouche will direct the adaptation]. AlloCiné (in French). Archived from the original on 11 July 2021. Retrieved 25 May 2023.
  7. Mahaud, Hervine (7 February 2023). "Casting. 3000 figurants recherchés à Lille pour le prochain film de Gilles Lellouche" [Casting. 3,000 extras wanted in Lille for Gilles Lellouche's next film]. actu.fr (in French). Archived from the original on 7 May 2023. Retrieved 25 May 2023.
  8. Figurants.com (7 February 2023). "Casting Lille : femmes, hommes et enfants de 5 à 88 ans pour un film avec François Civil: Pour le tournage du long-métrage 'L'amour ouf" réalisé par Gilles Lellouche, (avec François Civil et Adèle Exarchopoulos)". Twitter (in French).
  9. "Gilles Lellouche recherche des figurants de Wallonie picarde pour "L'Amour ouf"" [Gilles Lellouche is looking for extras from Picardy Wallonia for "L'Amour ouf"]. lavenir.net (in French). 16 February 2023. Archived from the original on 17 February 2023. Retrieved 25 May 2023.
  10. "The Stronghold (BAC Nord)". Cineuropa. Archived from the original on 21 May 2023. Retrieved 25 May 2023.
  11. Balle, Catherine (28 March 2023). "« Je verrai toujours vos visages » : le lumineux retour d'Élodie Bouchez, à l'affiche de sept films en 2023" ["I will always see your faces": the luminous return of Élodie Bouchez, starring in seven films in 2023]. Le Parisien (in French). Archived from the original on 30 March 2023. Retrieved 25 May 2023.
  12. "Hugo Sélignac's Instagram story from May 21, 2023". Imgur. 21 May 2023. Archived from the original on 22 May 2023. Retrieved 25 May 2023.
  13. Mediawan France (10 May 2023). "Début de tournage de "L'amour ouf", un film réalisé par Gilles Lellouche Avec François Civil, Adèle Exarchopoulos et Benoît Poelvoorde. Produit par Chi Fou Mi / @hugoselignac /Tresor Cinéma/Alain Attal". Twitter (in French).
  14. "Gilles Lellouche tourne en ce moment à Villeneuve-d'Ascq!". La Voix du Nord (in French). 15 May 2023. Archived from the original on 20 May 2023. Retrieved 25 May 2023.
  15. "Gilles Lellouche recrute pour son prochain film, "L'Amour ouf"" [Gilles Lellouche is recruiting for his next film, "L'Amour ouf"]. France TV Info (in French). 8 January 2023. Archived from the original on 8 January 2023. Retrieved 25 May 2023.
  16. "Comines (B) : Gilles Lellouche va tourner à Saint-Henri". La Voix du Nord (in French). 9 March 2023. Archived from the original on 11 March 2023. Retrieved 25 May 2023.
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