{"id":23247,"date":"2025-08-03T15:18:02","date_gmt":"2025-08-03T15:18:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/?page_id=23247"},"modified":"2025-10-03T23:05:54","modified_gmt":"2025-10-03T23:05:54","slug":"love-me-tender","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/love-me-tender\/","title":{"rendered":"LOVE ME TENDER"},"content":{"rendered":"
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WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 29<\/strong>
\nScreening starts at 8:50 pm
\nFollowed by a conversation with writer\/director Anna Cazenave Cambet<\/strong><\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/mk_custom_box][mk_padding_divider size=”10″][mk_image src=”https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/order-tickets.jpg” image_size=”full” link=”https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.eventive.org\/schedule\/68d7a1073344a1c797b60021″ target=”_blank” align=”center”][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/3″][mk_content_box heading=”PRESENTED IN ASSOCIATION WITH:”][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1758902752188{margin-bottom: 0px !important;}”]\n

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Directed by: <\/b>Anna Cazenave Cambet<\/span>
\n<\/span>Written by: <\/b>Anna Cazenave Cambet<\/span>
\n<\/span>Based on the Book by<\/b>: <\/span>Constance Debr\u00e9<\/span>
\n<\/span>Produced by: <\/b>Rapha\u00eblle Delauche & Nicolas Sanfaute\u00a0(Novoprod), France 2 Cin<\/span>\u00e9<\/span>ma
\n<\/span>Cinematography:\u00a0<\/b>Kristy Baboul
\n<\/span>Original Score: <\/b>Maxence Duss\u00e8re
\n<\/span>Film Editing:<\/b> Joris Laquittant
\n<\/span>Cast:<\/b> Vicky Krieps (Cl\u00e9mence),\u00a0Antoine Reinartz (Laurent),\u00a0Monia Chokri (Sarah), Viggo Ferreira-Redier (Paul), Ji-Min Park (Victoire), Salif Ciss\u00e9 (the psychiatrist expert), F\u00e9odor Atkine (the father), Aur\u00e9lia Petit (the mediator)
\n<\/span>International Sales: <\/b>Be For Films<\/span><\/p>\n

Synopsis<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Divorced and literally glowing in her new-found sexual freedom, Cl\u00e9mence is ebullient as she leaves a Paris swimming pool to meet her happy-go-lucky ex, Laurent, to make an announcement: she’s now into women. But Laurent is not as laid-back as he seems and quickly turns the tables on her and their hitherto amicable joint custody agreement. Vicky Krieps turns in another luminous, powerhouse performance in <\/span>Anna Cazenave Cambet<\/b>‘s adaptation of Constance Debr\u00e9’s autobiographical novel, plunging us into the complex moral dilemmas implicit in society’s searing either\/or notions of motherhood vs. self-fulfillment.<\/span><\/p>\n

Director’s Biography<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

A graduate of the La F\u00e9mis film school in Paris, <\/span>Anna Cazenave Cambet<\/b> wrote and directed her first short, <\/span>Gabber Lover<\/span><\/i>, in 2016, which snagged the Short Film Queer Palm in Cannes, the VFF Young Talent Award at the Munich Film Festival, and the Jury Award for Best Student Live-Action Short at the Palm Springs International Short Fest. That was followed by the short <\/span>lemanja c\u0153ur oc\u00e9an<\/span><\/i> (2017). Her first feature, <\/span>Gold for Dogs<\/span><\/i> (2020) was screened in the Critics’ Week section in Cannes. <\/span>Love Me Tender<\/i><\/b>, her second feature, premi\u00e8red in the Un Certain Regard section of this year’s Cannes Film Festival.<\/span>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/2″][mk_image src=”https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/screenshot-2025-09-28-at-10.00.31.png” image_size=”full” link=”https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/win-a-trip-to-paris\/” target=”_blank” align=”center”][mk_image src=”https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/love-me-tender.jpg” image_size=”full” frame_style=”gray_border” align=”center”][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

[vc_row][vc_column][mk_padding_divider][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1754234259383{margin-bottom: 0px !important;}”] LOVE ME TENDER   [\/vc_column_text][vc_separator color=”custom” css=”” accent_color=”#660084″][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1\/3″][mk_content_box heading=”CINEMA COMPETITION – NEXT WAVE SPOTLIGHT”][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1758560640802{margin-bottom: 0px !important;}”] TRUFFAUT THEATER Drama [\/vc_column_text][\/mk_content_box][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/3″][mk_custom_box corner_radius=”15″ bg_color=”#dbcce2″][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1759532739351{margin-bottom: 0px !important;}”] WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 29 Screening starts at 8:50 pm Followed by a conversation with writer\/director Anna Cazenave Cambet [\/vc_column_text][\/mk_custom_box][mk_padding_divider size=”10″][mk_image src=”https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/order-tickets.jpg” image_size=”full” link=”https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.eventive.org\/schedule\/68d7a1073344a1c797b60021″ target=”_blank” […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-23247","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/23247","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23247"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/23247\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24932,"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/23247\/revisions\/24932"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}