Up for Love

Up for Love (original title: Un homme à la hauteur) is a 2016 Franco-Belgian romantic comedy film directed by Laurent Tirard and starring Jean Dujardin and Virginie Efira. The film is a remake of the 2013 Argentine film Corazón de León.[2][3][4]

Up for Love
Film poster
Un homme à la hauteur
Directed byLaurent Tirard
Screenplay byLaurent Tirard
Grégoire Vigneron
Based onCorazón de León
by Marcos Carnevale
Produced bySidonie Dumas
Vanessa van Zuylen
StarringJean Dujardin
Virginie Efira
CinematographyJérôme Alméras
Edited byValérie Deseine
Music byÉric Neveux
Production
companies
VVZ Production
Gaumont
M6 Films
Scope Pictures
Distributed byGaumont (France)
Cinéart (Belgium)
Release dates
  • 25 April 2016 (2016-04-25) (COLCOA)
  • 4 May 2016 (2016-05-04) (France & Belgium)
Running time
98 minutes
CountriesFrance
Belgium
LanguageFrench
Budget$13 million
Box office$8.3 million[1]

Plot

Diane is a lawyer who went through a divorce a few years ago. After losing her phone, she receives a call from Alexandre, a funny and charming man who found the phone and intends to return it. As the conversation goes on, the two hit it off and decide to arrange a date. Diane heads for the meeting with great expectations only to realise Alexandre is very short. Nonetheless, she tries to overcome her prejudices.

Cast
  • Jean Dujardin as Alexandre
  • Virginie Efira as Diane
  • Cédric Kahn as Bruno
  • Stéphanie Papanian as Coralie
  • César Domboy as Benji
  • Edmonde Franchi as Monique
  • Manöelle Gaillard as Nicole
  • Bruno Gomila as Philippe
  • Myriam Tekaïa as Stéphanie
  • François-Dominique Blin as Sébastien

Reception

On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, which categorizes reviews only as positive or negative, 39% of 36 reviews are positive.[5]

References
  1. "Un homme à la hauteur (Up for Love)". Boxofficemojo.com. Retrieved 1 June 2019.
  2. "Berlin: Gaumont is 'Up for Love' With Jean Dujardin (EXCLUSIVE)". Variety.
  3. ""Un homme à la hauteur" : pour Virginie Efira et Jean Dujardin, ce n'est pas la taille qui compte". Le Parisien.
  4. "Virginie Efira : "Un homme à la hauteur" montre "à quel point on n'arrive pas totalement à être libre"". RTL.
  5. "Up for Loce". Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved 22 October 2021.
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