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A LOVE STORY
UNE HISTOIRE D'AMOUR

• Director: Alexis Michalik
• FRANCE / 2022 / DCP / Colour / 90’ / French; Turkish, English s.t.

• Screenplay: Alexis Michalik
• Original Work: Alexis Michalik
• Director of Photography: Marie Spencer
• Editing: Julie Tribout
• Music: Romain Trouillet
• Cast: Juliette Delacroix, Marie-Camille Soyer, Alexis Michalik, Manon Maindivide, Daniel Njo Lobé
• Producer: Boris Mendza, Gaël Cabouat, Benjamin Bellecour, Camille Torre
• Production Co.: Acmé Films, FullDawa Films
• World Sales: Le Pacte

The new film directed by the celebrated French playwright Alexis Michalik is adapted to cinema from his own hugely successful, award-winning stage play. Michalik also plays one of the main roles in the film, as he did in the play, and employs the same actors as well. The film follows Katia, who falls in love with Justine, when her life is a mess. They begin a beautiful, strong relationship and decide to have a child together through artificial insemination. Sadly, Justine leaves her when Katia is just a few days away from the birth of their daughter. Twelve years later, after Katia has raised Jeanne alone, she is told she has only a few months left to live. To find a guardian for Jeanne, her only option is her brother, William, a cynical, disillusioned writer, whom she has not seen since years. A Love Story is a contemporary melodrama that is moving, humorous, full of life, full of laughter and tears. Alexis Michalik’s Edmond was the opening film of the 2019 Istanbul Film Festival.

This film was a Meetings on the Bridge participant.