{"id":16138,"date":"2024-04-05T15:12:34","date_gmt":"2024-04-05T15:12:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/?p=16138"},"modified":"2025-12-02T21:02:58","modified_gmt":"2025-12-02T21:02:58","slug":"the-nature-of-love-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/the-nature-of-love-2\/","title":{"rendered":"THE NATURE OF LOVE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #660084; font-family: arial, sans-serif;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-16444\" src=\"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/the-nature-of-love-236x350.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"380\" height=\"563\" srcset=\"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/the-nature-of-love-236x350.jpg 236w, https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/the-nature-of-love-826x1224.jpg 826w, https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/the-nature-of-love-768x1137.jpg 768w, https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/the-nature-of-love-600x888.jpg 600w, https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/the-nature-of-love.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 380px) 100vw, 380px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #660084;\">THE NATURE OF LOVE<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: large;\">| 2024 &#8211; 110&#8242; &#8211; Comedy,\u00a0Romance &#8211; Canada-France co-production.<br \/>\nWritten by:\u00a0Monia Chokri.<br \/>\nDirected by:\u00a0Monia Chokri.<br \/>\nStarring:\u00a0Magalie L\u00e9pine Blondeau,\u00a0Pierre-Yves Cardinal,\u00a0Francis-William Rh\u00e9aume, Monia Chokri, Steve Laplante, Marie-Ginette Guay,\u00a0Micheline Lanct\u00f4t, Guillaume Laurin.<br \/>\nOfficial Selections Cannes International Film Festival 2023, Toronto International Film Festival 2023, Chicago International Film Festival. Winner\u00a0Best Foreign Film,\u00a0C\u00e9sar Awards 2024.<br \/>\nOfficial Selection\u00a0<b>TAFFF 2023<\/b>.<br \/>\nIn French with English subtitles.<br \/>\nA Music Box Films\u00a0release. |<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\" font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: large;\">French Canadian filmmaker<b>\u00a0<\/b><b>Monia Chokri<\/b><b>\u00a0<\/b>dissects one woman\u2019s mid-life crisis, the chasm between classes, and the notion that opposites attract in her deadpan romantic comedy\u00a0The Nature of Love. Sophia is a 40-year-old philosophy professor in a long-term, intellectually-stimulating but sexually-tepid relationship with the equally cerebral Xavier. Then she crosses paths with Sylvain, the strapping working-class contractor renovating their country house\u2026 and libidinous sparks fly. Despite her well-prepared lectures on love and desire according to Plato, Schopenhauer, Spinoza and Bell Hooks, Sophia is now well out of her depth and plunges into uncharted emotional waters.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B0CZN88X7B\/ref=pv_ag_gcf?cmp=rt_where_to_watch&amp;tag=rottetomao-20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> WATCH NOW<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>THE NATURE OF LOVE | 2024 &#8211; 110&#8242; &#8211; Comedy,\u00a0Romance &#8211; Canada-France co-production. Written by:\u00a0Monia Chokri. Directed by:\u00a0Monia Chokri. Starring:\u00a0Magalie L\u00e9pine Blondeau,\u00a0Pierre-Yves Cardinal,\u00a0Francis-William Rh\u00e9aume, Monia Chokri, Steve Laplante, Marie-Ginette Guay,\u00a0Micheline Lanct\u00f4t, Guillaume Laurin. Official Selections Cannes International Film Festival 2023, Toronto International Film Festival 2023, Chicago International Film Festival. Winner\u00a0Best Foreign Film,\u00a0C\u00e9sar Awards 2024. 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