The Nature of Love

Date:: from 23 Feb 2024

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Love meets philosophy in a romantic comedy that subverts the rules of the genre.

Simple comme Sylvain
2023, Monia Chokri

Canada—France
112 minutes, French with Russian subtitles

Starring: Magalie Lépine-Blondeau, Pierre-Yves Cardinal, Monia Chokri

40-year-old Sophie teaches philosophy at university and can quote by heart what Plato and Schopenhauer wrote about love. However, her comfortable marriage to intellectual Xavier does not show passionate feelings. That is why when brutal and far from philosophy handyman Sylvain breaks into the life of the teacher, it turns into a whirlwind.

Shot from Simple comme Sylvain, 2023

The Nature of Love — sprinkled with Sophia’s lectures on various philosophers’ ideas about love — never quite promises a happily ever after.

— Alissa Wilkinson, Vox

A typical romantic comedy in terms of plot, the film mocks the genre’s characteristics from the very first frame: impassioned music, characteristic editing, dramatic zoom—all the romcom tricks are turned inside out. For all the lightness of the film, its irony allows it to engage in quite complex subjects.

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