The Names of Love
- warm
- brisk
- gentle
Warm, kinetic, gentle drama / comedy, grounded in texture. Redemptive, intimate, measured.
How every film is hand-scored →Bahia Benmahmoud, a free-spirited young woman, has a particular way of seeing political engagement, as she doesn't hesitate to sleep with those who don't agree with her to convert them to her cause - which is a lot of people, as all right-leaning people are concerned. Generally, it works pretty well. Until the day she meets Arthur Martin, a discreet forty-something who doesn't like taking risks. She imagines that with a name like that, he's got to be slightly fascist. But names are deceitful and appearances deceiving.
Our read · The Names of Love (2010) reads as a warm, kinetic, grounded drama · comedy · romance entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, redemptive in outlook.
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The shape of The Names of Love
What watching it is actually like.
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The reading.
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