''The Names of Love'' (french: Le Nom des gens) is a 2010 French
romantic comedy
Romantic comedy (also known as romcom or rom-com) is a subgenre of comedy and slice of life fiction, focusing on lighthearted, humorous plot lines centered on romantic ideas, such as how true love is able to surmount most obstacles. In a typica ...
film directed by
Michel Leclerc, written by Leclerc and Baya Kasmi, and produced by Antoine Rein, Fabrice Goldstein and Caroline Adrian. The film recorded 764,821 admissions in Europe.
The film was awarded two
César Awards in
2011, including
Best Actress
Best Actress is the name of an award which is presented by various film, television and theatre organisations, festivals, and people's awards to leading actresses in a film, television series, television film or play. The first Best Actress aw ...
for
Sara Forestier
Sara Forestier (born 4 October 1986) is a French actress, film director and screenwriter.
Life and career
Forestier began her film career in 2001.
She received a César Award for Most Promising Actress for her performance in '' Games of Love and ...
and
Best Original Screenplay
The Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay is the Academy Award for the best screenplay not based upon previously published material. It was created in 1940 as a separate writing award from the Academy Award for Best Story. Beginning with the ...
.
Plot
The film is semi-biographical, documenting the life of a young woman who uses sex as a weapon to influence
right-wing individuals and conservative Muslims. Bahia Benmahmoud (
Sara Forestier
Sara Forestier (born 4 October 1986) is a French actress, film director and screenwriter.
Life and career
Forestier began her film career in 2001.
She received a César Award for Most Promising Actress for her performance in '' Games of Love and ...
), a scatter-brained,
free-spirited, young
left-wing
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activist, sleeps with her political opposites in order to manipulate them to her cause, until she finds her match in Arthur Martin (
Jacques Gamblin
Jacques Gamblin is a French actor.
Life and career
Jacques Gamblin is a French actor. He studied at the Centre dramatique de Caen (Caen Dramatic Arts Centre).
Originally, Jacques Gamblin was not destined to act. As a professional technician ...
).
Cast
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Jacques Gamblin
Jacques Gamblin is a French actor.
Life and career
Jacques Gamblin is a French actor. He studied at the Centre dramatique de Caen (Caen Dramatic Arts Centre).
Originally, Jacques Gamblin was not destined to act. As a professional technician ...
as Arthur Martin
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Sara Forestier
Sara Forestier (born 4 October 1986) is a French actress, film director and screenwriter.
Life and career
Forestier began her film career in 2001.
She received a César Award for Most Promising Actress for her performance in '' Games of Love and ...
as Bahia Benmahmoud
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Zinedine Soualem
Zinedine Soualem (born 17 April 1957) is a French actor. He has appeared in at least five films directed by Cédric Klapisch.
Personal life
Soualem is Algerian by ancestry, and was at one point married to the actress Hiam Abbass
Hiam Abba ...
as Mohamed Benmahmoud
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Carole Franck
Carole Franck (born 1970 in Paris) is a French actress.
Filmography
Dubbing
Theatre
References
External links
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Living people
French film actresses
French television actresses
Actresses from Par ...
as Cécile Delivet Benmahmoud
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Jacques Boudet
Jacques Boudet (born 29 December 1939) is a French stage and screen actor. He had great success in the 1980s with his appearance in '' Exercises in Style'', and is featured in the film '' The Names of Love'' (2010).
In cinema, he frequently a ...
as Lucien Martin
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Michèle Moretti
Michèle Moretti (born 15 March 1940 in Paris, France
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as Annette Martin
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Zakariya Gouram as Hassan Hassini
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Antoine Michel as photographer
The former
French Prime Minister
The prime minister of France (french: link=no, Premier ministre français), officially the prime minister of the French Republic, is the head of government of the French Republic and the leader of the Council of Ministers.
The prime minister i ...
Lionel Jospin
Lionel Robert Jospin (; born 12 July 1937) is a French politician who served as Prime Minister of France from 1997 to 2002.
Jospin was First Secretary of the Socialist Party from 1995 to 1997 and the party's candidate for President of France in ...
makes a cameo appearance.
Production
In the scene one in which
Sara Forestier
Sara Forestier (born 4 October 1986) is a French actress, film director and screenwriter.
Life and career
Forestier began her film career in 2001.
She received a César Award for Most Promising Actress for her performance in '' Games of Love and ...
walks naked (with only her boots on) through the streets and subway, most of the people she encounters were unaware that a movie was being shot.
Reception
''The Names of Love'' received generally positive reviews.
Rotten Tomatoes
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gives the film an aggregate score of 72%, based on 53 reviews, with an average rating of 6.7/10. The film also has a score of 62 out of 100 on
Metacritic
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based on 19 reviews.
References
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2010 films
2010s sex comedy films
César Award winners
French sex comedy films
2010s French-language films
French romantic comedy films
Films directed by Michel Leclerc
2010 romantic comedy films
Films featuring a Best Actress César Award-winning performance
2010s French films
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