L'amour est une fête marks a new collaboration between actor Guillaume Canet and director Cédric Anger(L'homme qu'on aimait trop, Tout nous sépare etc.). Here, he delves into the peculiar world of pornography, plunging us into the Paris of the 80s, a subject he had long wanted to tackle, this era being "inseparable from the post-68 liberation of morals", he notes.
It's also the eighth film Guillaume Canet has made with Gilles Lellouche, two actors we're delighted to be reunited with in such enjoyable roles!
Official synopsis:
Paris, 1982. Riddled with debt, Franck and Serge, owners of a peep show, Le Mirodrome, come up with the idea of producing short pornographic films with their dancers to revive their establishment. Their success soon attracts the attention of their competitors. One night, hooded men destroy the Mirodrome. Ruined, Franck and Serge are forced to do business with their rivals. But what the rivals don't know is that our two "entrepreneurs" are investigators working on a crackdown on the Parisian "X" business. It's the start of an adventure into the pornographic cinema of the early 1980s that will take them far. A long way...
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