A View of Love

A View of Love

2010 · 105 min · FR · 5.9 (96 votes)
Dir. Nicole Garcia · Starring Jean Dujardin, Marie-Josée Croze, Sandrine Kiberlain, Toni Servillo, Claudia Cardinale, Michel Aumont · Music Stephen Warbeck
DramaRomance

Happily married with a daughter, Marc is a successful real estate agent in Aix-en-Provence. One day, he has an appointment with a woman to view a traditional country house. A few hours later, Marc finally puts a name to her face. It's Cathy, the girl he was in love with growing up in Oran, Algeria, in the last days of the French colonial regime. Marc hurries to her hotel. They spend the night together. Then she's gone again. And Marc's mother tells him Cathy never left Algeria. She was killed with her father in a bombing just before independence...

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A hauntingly romantic drama that washes over you like a tide of memory. It's a bittersweet journey back to a lost past, filled with yearning and the ghosts of youthful passion against a backdrop of historical upheaval.

nostalgicmelancholicromanticyearningslow-burnarthouseperiod dramaintimatememorylost lovecolonialismidentity
algeriawoman directoralgerian war (1954-62)french algerian
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