Down by Love (French: Éperdument) is a 2016 French drama film directed by Pierre Godeau.

Down by Love
Film poster
Éperdument
Directed byPierre Godeau
Screenplay byPierre Godeau
Florent Gonçalves
Catherine Siguret
Based onDéfense d'aimer
by Florent Gonçalves
Produced byPhilippe Godeau
Cyril Colbeau-Justin
Jean-Baptiste Dupont
Nathalie Gastaldo
StarringGuillaume Gallienne
Adèle Exarchopoulos
CinematographyMuriel Cravatte
Edited byHervé de Luze
Music byRobin Coudert
Production
companies
Pan-Européenne
StudioCanal
France 2 Cinéma
LGM Productions
Appaloosa Distribution
Don't Be Shy Productions
Versus Production
Distributed byStudioCanal
Release dates
  • 25 February 2016 (2016-02-25) (Paris premiere)
  • 2 March 2016 (2016-03-02) (France)
Running time
110 minutes
CountryFrance
LanguageFrench
Box office$50,828[1]

Plot

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Based on the life of Sorour Arbabzadeh and Florent Goncalves in 2010, a young woman, Anna Amari, is detained at a prison for women in Versailles, where she encounters Jean Firmino, the prison director. She is sentenced to nine years in prison and they begin an illegal relationship which brings the attention of the authorities onto them.

Cast

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  • Guillaume Gallienne as Jean Firmino
  • Adèle Exarchopoulos as Anna Amari
  • Stéphanie Cléau [fr] as Elise Firmino
  • Marie Rivière as Anna's mother
  • Aliénor Poisson as Louise Firmino
  • Cyrielle Martinez as Zoé
  • Selma Mansouri as Sonia
  • Sabila Moussadek as Aïda
  • Julie Moulier as Pilar
  • Marie Berto as Béatrice
  • Amir El Kacem as Mam's
  • Soumaye Bocoum as Mélanie
  • Ahlem Lahouel as Ahlem
  • Nade Dieu as The captain
  • Anne Loiret as Anna's lawyer
  • Maryline Even as Co-prisoner at Fleury
  • Olivier Foubert as The teacher
  • Aude Briant as The secretary

Critical response

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On review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, Down by Love has an approval rating of 33%, based on 6 reviews, with an average rating of 4.7/10.[2]

References

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  1. ^ "Down By Love". Box Office Mojo.
  2. ^ "Down By Love (Éperdument) (2016)". Rotten Tomatoes.
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