Adèle Exarchopoulos + François Civil + Gilles Lellouche: we know the release date of L’Amour ouf, an event film lasting more than 3 hours.
5 years after the release of Le Grand Bain, Gilles Lellouche returns to directing for L’Amour ouf. The shooting of this very ambitious film was completed, after 88 days of shooting.
You will have to be patient to discover the film: it will arrive on the big screen on October 16, 2024, with a possible detour to the Cannes Film Festival, if the editing is ready in time.
L’Amour ouf will tell the love story between a little bandit and his sassy fiancée, with flashbacks and stories that collide, as summarized by Pierre Lescure in the show Nice gesture on France 2, which devoted a long report on the film.
The film, which promises to be very broad, will bring together a great cast: François Civil and Adèle Exarchopoulos (currently starring in Voleuses by Mélanie Laurent, see our video interview above). Both had, for the record, shared the Bac Nord poster with Gilles Lellouche.
Malik Frikah (seen in Apaches) and Mallory Wanecque (seen in Les Pires) will play the other two main roles. They will play precisely the young version of the characters played by François Civil and Adèle Exarchopoulos. L’Amour Ouf takes place over several eras, and will cross temporalities.
An ultra violent romantic comedy
L’Amour Ouf will have the uniqueness of crossing genres. “A mix of genres, notably musical comedy. It’s a teenage movie, it’s a love film…“, develops Gilles Lellouche at the microphone of Beau Geste.
In terms of references, the producers salute the director’s love of cinema, which calls upon Scorsese, Tarantino, or West Side Story… And we learn in passing that the film will have an XXL duration, like the references cited…
Gilles Lellouche indicates that the film will last “at least 3 hours“! For the dance part, the director called on the most sought-after company of the moment: the collective (La)Horde, for which this will be their first foray into cinema.
For the record, L’Amour Ouf will be Gilles Lellouche’s third feature film, after Narco and Le Grand Bain. The latter was very successful, with 4.3 million entries. As the director explains, it was the success of this film that allowed him to carry out this new project, which he had been thinking about for 17 years!