The Art of Love

Several interconnected chapters follow a variety of Parisian couples navigating love, desire, and relationships. Isabelle, frustrated by a year of celibacy, rejects her friend Zoé’s offer to "borrow" her husband and instead impersonates their mutual friend Amélie, who cannot bring herself to sleep with her close friend Boris. Meanwhile, the lonely Achille is stunned when his alluring new neighbor appears at his door in a negligee, proposing an affair. Elsewhere, middle-aged Emmanuelle struggles with an overwhelming attraction to every handsome man she encounters, threatening her marriage, while a young couple wrestles with jealousy. Each chapter delves into the unpredictability of love with humor and poignancy.

Our read · The Art of Love (2011) reads as a cosy, kinetic, grounded romance · comedy · music entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, tender in temperature, redemptive in outlook. Hand-scored on twelve axes of taste — mood, pacing, weirdness, hope, stakes, humour, reality, density, warmth, auteur, intensity, and era — with a derived palette drawn from its dominant cinematography.

Cast constellation

Change of Address

2006

3 cast reunion

Emmanuel Mouret · Ariane Ascaride · Frédérique Bel

same tone

Caprice

2015

Emmanuel Mouret actor/director thread

Emmanuel Mouret

same tone

Shall We Kiss?

2007

Emmanuel Mouret actor/director thread

Emmanuel Mouret

same tone

Love Lasts Three Years

2011

Frédérique Bel thread

Frédérique Bel

same tone

Emmanuel Mouret

actor path

Change of Addresssame toneCapricesame toneShall We Kiss?same tone

Pascale Arbillot

actor path

French Loversame toneEmployee of the Monthsame toneThe Best Is Yet to Comenear DNA

Ariane Ascaride

actor path

Change of Addresssame toneThe Hedgehognear DNAThe Thieving Magpienear DNA

Frédérique Bel

actor path

Love Lasts Three Yearssame toneChange of Addresssame toneThe Student and Mister Henrisame tone