{"id":22213,"date":"2025-05-31T14:30:52","date_gmt":"2025-05-31T14:30:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/?p=22213"},"modified":"2025-06-12T18:40:12","modified_gmt":"2025-06-12T18:40:12","slug":"the-young-lovers-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/the-young-lovers-2\/","title":{"rendered":"THE YOUNG LOVERS"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 data-wp-editing=\"1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-22214\" src=\"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/the-young-lovers-250x340.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"475\" srcset=\"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/the-young-lovers-250x340.jpg 250w, https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/the-young-lovers-600x814.jpg 600w, https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/the-young-lovers.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/h2>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\n<h2>THE YOUNG LOVERS<\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: large;\">| 2022 &#8211; 114&#8242; &#8211; Romance, Drama.<br \/>\nWritten by: Solveig Anspach, Agn\u00e8s De Sacy, Carine Tardieu,<br \/>\nDirected by:\u00a0Carine Tardieu.<br \/>\nStarring: Fanny Ardant, Melvil Poupaud, C\u00e9cile de France, Florence Loiret Caille, Sharif Andoura, Sarah Henochsberg, Martin Laurent, Olenka Ilunga, Manda Tour\u00e9.<br \/>\nOfficial Competition <strong>COLCOA 2021<\/strong> <strong>(North American Premiere)<\/strong>.<br \/>\nA France\u00a0Channel release. |<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: large;\"><br \/>\n<em>Co-writer\/director\u00a0Carine Tardieu\u00a0turns the typical May-December romance on its head with this discreet love story about a soulful 45-year-old oncologist who falls deeply in love with a beautiful, very independent 70-year-old retired architect. Melvil Poupaud\u2019s and Fanny Ardent\u2019s nuanced performances bring a fullness and depth to those characters, bypassing the usual clich\u00e9s; expressing the thrill, anguish and vulnerability of falling in love \u2014 at any age \u2014 and revealing how true love is not at all blind, but flies in the face of the confines and preconceptions that society often likes to saddle it with.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/video\/detail\/B0DXW3YGW7\/ref=atv_sr_fle_c_sr796bd2_2_1_2?sr=1-2&amp;pageTypeIdSource=ASIN&amp;pageTypeId=B0DXW6C339&amp;qid=1748698327769\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WATCH NOW<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<h3><\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>THE YOUNG LOVERS | 2022 &#8211; 114&#8242; &#8211; Romance, Drama. Written by: Solveig Anspach, Agn\u00e8s De Sacy, Carine Tardieu, Directed by:\u00a0Carine Tardieu. Starring: Fanny Ardant, Melvil Poupaud, C\u00e9cile de France, Florence Loiret Caille, Sharif Andoura, Sarah Henochsberg, Martin Laurent, Olenka Ilunga, Manda Tour\u00e9. Official Competition COLCOA 2021 (North American Premiere). A France\u00a0Channel release. | Co-writer\/director\u00a0Carine [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":22214,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[95,11,45,128],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tafff","category-drama","category-romance","category-women-directors"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22213","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"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=22213"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22213\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22216,"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22213\/revisions\/22216"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}