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The Names of Love
Directed by
Michel Leclerc
R
2010
1h 43m
Comedy
,
Drama
,
and more
7.1
72%
79%
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A young, extroverted left-wing activist who sleeps with her political opponents to convert them to her cause is successful until she meets her match.
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Cast of The Names of Love
Jacques Gamblin
Arthur Martin
Sara Forestier
Bahia Benmahmoud
Zinedine Soualem
Mohamed Benmahmoud, le père de Bahia
Jacques Boudet
Lucien Martin, le père d'Arthur
Carole Franck
Cécile Benhmamoud, la mère de Bahia
Michèle Moretti
Annette Martin, la mère d'Arthur
Julia Vaidis-Bogard
Annette à 30 ans
Nabil Massad
Nassim
Zakariya Gouram
Hassan Hassini
Adrien Stoclet
Arthur Martin adolescent
Camille Gigot
Arthur Martin enfant
Laura Genovino
Bahia Benmahmoud enfant
Rose Marit
Annette enfant
Yann Goven
Le pianiste
Camille Chalons
Une ado, la première copine d'Arthur
Delphine Baril
La femme qui n'a jamais voté
Georges Benoît
Le professeur de piano
Lionel Jospin
Himself
Michel Leclerc
Director / Writer
Baya Kasmi
Writer
Caroline Adrian
Producer
Fabrice Goldstein
Producer
Antoine Rein
Producer
The Names of Love Ratings & Reviews
Austin Chronicle
Kimberley Jones
What is so surprising -- even exhilarating -- about The Names of Love is that it shucks off the desultory roadblocks that engine the modern romantic comedy.
Arizona Republic
Bill Goodykoontz
It's always entertaining, and it boasts a terrific performance from Sara Forestier.
Detroit News
Tom Long
A bit jarring while still totally disarming, The Names of Love stirs the pot in more ways than one.
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Joe Williams
The elements of sex, race and religion spin in separate orbits, but the two likable leads hold them together as the film grows surprisingly serious.
Washington Post
Mark Jenkins
It's a playfully sexy farce that plays like a Gallic "Annie Hall" - if Annie had been as blithe about nudity as Baya is.
Philadelphia Inquirer
Steven Rea
Playfully provocative and boasting a star-making turn from Sara Forestier, The Names of Love addresses the volatile issue of European assimilation and multiculturalism, but in a tone and tenor full of screwball whimsy.
Boston Globe
Ty Burr
Instead of asking "What's in a name?,'' this slyly delightful piece of Gallic fluff wonders at all the ways that names - the labels we give to one another - bring us into the world and keep us apart from it.
San Francisco Chronicle
Mick LaSalle
Forestier's performance is a tour de force of comic acting, maintaining astonishing alertness and energy from shot to shot and scene to scene.
Chicago Reader
J. R. Jones
The movie never really decides what it's about, and its odd-couple romance is stale and unpersuasive.
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
What I admired was the story of these characters themselves. What an odd couple.
The New Yorker
Anthony Lane
Leclerc pays such lavish homage, in the construction of his film, to golden-age Allen; the moments at which a bewildered Arthur consults his teen-age self could have come straight out of "Annie Hall."
Salon.com
Andrew O'Hehir
In its joyful and high-spirited fashion "The Names of Love" suggests that we must learn from the past but live for the future, and that definitely doesn't just apply to French people.
Christian Science Monitor
Peter Rainer
I'm not saying that seriousness and nudity cannot coexist, even in France, but the mix of gravitas and friskiness here is annoyingly superficial. The film's tone is "crowd-pleasing," but which crowd exactly is being pleased?
Los Angeles Times
Kevin Thomas
So many actresses are asked to be adorable even in their characters' most exasperating moments, but few pull it off as well as Forestier.
New York Post
V.A. Musetto
Strained and mildly amusing.
New York Daily News
Joe Neumaier
From madcap to moronic.
Wall Street Journal
Joe Morgenstern
Mr. Leclerc's movie, in French with good English subtitles, often plays like romantic comedy, but it's really a sophisticated burlesque about the significance of surnames, plus some quintessentially French obsessions...
New York Times
Stephen Holden
A movie that has the tone and structure of early-to-middle Woody Allen, but infused with a dose of Gallic identity politics.
Entertainment Weekly
Lisa Schwarzbaum
For those who wish to decode The Names of Love, there's a sharp commentary on French prejudices, character types, history, and culture embedded in Michel Leclerc's droll autobiographical French comedy. But the surface story works just fine too.
AV Club
Keith Phipps
In spite of the film's serious subtext, it's unmistakably a romantic comedy, and Leclerc keeps a light touch throughout.
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