English title: Man's Gentle Love.
Based on the novel "Penses-tu réussir" ("Do You Think You Will Succeed?", perhaps), by Jean de Tinan.
A young man leads a life of free sex and open relationships. He reencounters his first love by chance one day, she is now married and with a child. He starts to worry he is becoming incapable of having deep feelings (in his words near the end of the movie, "emotionally impotent"). He starts an intense relationship with a drug addict woman.
Distinctly anachronistic tale of youth's aimlessness and emptiness. Based on a late nineteenth-century novel, it tries to mimic the romantic zeitgeist in present times. This has been done before, for example in Rent. I do not see the point. Does the filmmaker mean times do not really change? Anyway, the result is quite forgettable.
Rating: 35
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