In Praise of Love

Someone we hear talking - but whom we do not see - speaks of a project which describes the four key moments of love: meeting, physical passion, arguments/separation and making up. This project is to be told through three couples: young, adult and old. We do not know if the project is for a play, a film, a novel or an opera. The author of the project is always accompanied by a kind of servant. Meanwhile, two years earlier, an American civil servant meets with an elderly French couple who had fought in the Resistance during World War II, brokering a deal with a Hollywood director to buy the rights to tell their story. The members of the old couple's family discuss heatedly questions of nation, memory and history.

• Jean-Luc GodardDirector
• Jean-Luc GodardWriter

• Bruno PutzuluEdgar
• Cécile CampElle
• Jean DavyGrandfather
• Françoise VernyGrandmother
• Audrey KlebanerEglantine
• Jérémie LippmannPerceval
• Claude BaignièresMr. Rosenthal
• Rémo ForlaniMayor Forlani
• Mark HunterU.S. Journalist
• Jean LacoutureHistorian
• Philippe LyrettePhilippe, Edgar's Assistant
• Bruno MesrineMagician