Beating Hearts

Beating Hearts Movie Details:

Beating Hearts Movie Cast & Characters:

• François Civil as Clotaire
• Adèle Exarchopoulos as Jackie
• Malik Frikah as Clotaire (17 years old)
• Mallory Wanecque as Jackie (15 years old)
• Alain Chabat as Jackie’s father
• Anthony Bajon as Tony
• Jean-Pascal Zadi as Lionel
• Benoît Poelvoorde as La Brosse
• Vincent Lacoste as Jeffrey
• Élodie Bouchez as Clotaire’s mother
• Karim Leklou as Clotaire’s father
• Raphaël Quenard as Kiki
• Louis Raison as Clotaire (12 years old)

Storyline:

The story spans 20 years and begins in the North East of France with two teenagers who fall madly in love, a girl from an upper-middle-class family and a boy from a working-class family. Their love story is quickly doomed to failure when he ends up becoming a criminal and spends 12 years in prison.

About Beating Hearts Movie:

Beating Hearts (French: L’Amour ouf) is a romantic comedy musical film directed by Gilles Lellouche from a screenplay he co-wrote with Audrey Diwan, Ahmed Hamidi, and Julien Lambroschini, based on the 1997 Irish novel Jackie Loves Johnser OK? by Neville Thompson.

The film is a co-production between France and Belgium. It stars François Civil and Adèle Exarchopoulos. The ensemble cast includes Malik Frikah, Mallory Wanecque, Alain Chabat, Benoît Poelvoorde, Vincent Lacoste, Jean-Pascal Zadi, Élodie Bouchez, Karim Leklou, Raphaël Quenard and Anthony Bajon.

Filming commenced on May 9, 2023, and wrapped on September 15, 2023, after 18 weeks and 88 days. Locations included various regions in France—such as Villeneuve-d’Ascq, Dunkirk, Lille, Douai, and Boulogne-sur-Mer—and the Institut Saint-Henri de Comines in Belgium.

Beating Hearts had its world premiere in the main competition at the 77th Cannes Film Festival on 23 May 2024, where it received mostly negative reviews from critics. The film was released theatrically in France by StudioCanal on 16 October 2024.

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