BEATING HEARTS Trailer (2024) Adèle Exarchopoulos, Romance Movie

BEATING HEARTS Trailer (2024) Adèle Exarchopoulos, Romance Movie

BEATING HEARTS Trailer (2024) Adèle Exarchopoulos, Romance Movie
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At this year’s Cannes Film Festival, there are few films that earned as much love during its premiere as “Beating Hearts.” While the film didn’t necessarily score big with critics, it did earn a huge 15-minute ovation after it premiered. That must count for something, right?

As seen in the trailer, “Beating Hearts” tells the story of two childhood loves who come back together later in life. One of them is now happily married, while the other has been living a darker life.

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READ MORE: ‘Beating Hearts’ Review: Gilles Lellouche’s Stylish Thriller Descends Into Clichés [Cannes]

The film stars Adèle Exarchopoulos, François Civil, Malik Frikah, and Mallory Wanecque. “Beating Hearts” is directed by actor-turned-filmmaker Gilles Lellouche. He previously directed the feature film, “Sink or Swim,” which was nominated for multiple César Awards.

We saw “Beating Hearts” when it debuted at Cannes this year, and in our review, we said, “Like their younger counterparts, perhaps if Civil had Exarchopoulos had some genuine on-screen chemistry all would be forgiven. Maybe ‘Beating Hearts’ would be worth its wild and bumpy ride. But, oh, no. We’ve still got 20 minutes left. Strap in.”

“Beating Hearts” is coming to French cinemas on October 16. An international release has yet to be announced. You can watch the trailer below.

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Here’s the synopsis:

Raised in a troublesome neighbourhood, local rebellious teenager Clotaire falls for his schoolmate Jackie, charmed by her fearless spirit and sharp wit. As powerful first love blossoms between the two, rampant gang violence entices him into a much darker path and ultimately destroys all they have built when he is charged with a crime he didn’t commit. After many years apart, now leading profoundly different lives, the star-crossed lovers discover that every path they’ve taken leads them back together, but will love triumph over Clotaire’s quest for revenge?

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"Thinking of you meant worrying about you..." Studiocanal has revealed an official trailer for a French epic romance film titled Beating Hearts, featuring English subtitles so everyone can hear what they're saying. This premiered at the end of the 2024 Cannes Film Festival earlier this year, with mostly negative and a few positive reviews. The decade-spanning love story thriller is about a boy and girl who fall for each other as teens. But he's a criminal and gets locked up – hoping to find her years later. Local rebellious teen Clotaire falls for his schoolmate Jackie, but gang violence leads him down a darker path. After years apart, the star-crossed lovers discover every path they've taken leads them back together. Does it? Adèle Exarchopoulos & François Civil star as the older versions of Jackie & Clotaire. It also stars Mallory Wanecque & Malik Frikah as teens, Jean-Pascal Zadi, Benoît Poelvoorde, Alain Chabat, Élodie Bouchez, Vincent Lacoste, and Raphaël Quenard. This was one of the worst films I saw in Cannes - overlong, overwrought, annoyingly generic & cliche, with zero originality. It's all style in a film with entirely no substance. Oh well.

Here's the first official trailer (+ poster) for Gilles Lellouche's film Beating Hearts, direct from YouTube:

Beating Hearts Poster

Raised in a troublesome neighbourhood, local rebellious teenager Clotaire falls for his schoolmate Jackie, charmed by her fearless spirit and sharp wit. As powerful first love blossoms between the two, rampant gang violence entices him into a much darker path and ultimately destroys all they have built when he is charged with a crime he didn’t commit. After many years spent apart, now with each leading profoundly different lives, the star-crossed lovers discover that every path they've taken still leads them back together, but will love triumph over Clotaire's quest for revenge? Beating Hearts, also known as L'amour Ouf or Love, Phew originally in French, is directed by French filmmaker Gilles Lellouche, director of the films Narco and Sink or Swim previously, plus a few other short films & segments. The screenplay is written by Gilles Lellouche and Audrey Diwan; with Julien Lambroschini and Ahmed Hamidi. Adapted from Neville Thompson's novel. Produced by Alain Attal and Hugo Sélignac. This initially premiered at the 2024 Cannes Film Festival earlier this year (read our review). Studiocanal releases Lellouche's Beating Hearts in French cinemas starting October 16th, 2024 this fall. No UK or US release date has been set. Anyone interested?
Will Gilles Lellouche’s Beating Hearts be this year’s Past Lives? There was a lot of love for it at Cannes where it competed for the Palme d’Or and earned a minutes-long standing ovation. But critical reviews were less favorable, and it remains to be seen if the film will be warmly received when more eyes are on it this awards season.

Starring Adèle Exarchopoulos and François Civil, Beating Hearts follows childhood lovers who find their romance torn apart when he is convicted of a crime he didn’t commit. Years later they are reunited as adults living very different lives, with him traveling a very dark path of vengeance.

Also in the cast are Malik Frikah, and Mallory Wanecque. Lellouche is a renowned actor-turned-director who last helmed Sink or Swim in 2018, earning multiple César Awards nominations. He and Exarchopoulos last worked together on 2022’s Smoking Causes Coughing.

SYNOPSIS: Raised in a troublesome neighbourhood, local rebellious teenager Clotaire falls for his schoolmate Jackie, charmed by her fearless spirit and sharp wit. As powerful first love blossoms between the two, rampant gang violence entices him into a much darker path and ultimately destroys all they have built when he is charged with a crime he didn’t commit. After many years apart, now leading profoundly different lives, the star-crossed lovers discover that every path they’ve taken leads them back together, but will love triumph over Clotaire’s quest for revenge?

Beating Hearts opens in France on October 16th, but has yet to receive a stateside date.

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Six years after the roaring success that was Sink or Swim (out of Competition, 2018), Gilles Lellouche dives into Competition avec L’Amour ouf (Beating Hearts), a musical rom-com that whisks Adèle Exarchopoulos and François Civil away on a heady, twenty-year romantic odyssey.

Jackie and Clotaire fall madly in love in their town in northern France. She’s kooky and nerdy where he’s a bit of a scoundrel, and although life puts their love to the test, nothing can keep them apart.

L’Amour ouf (Beating Hearts) is the result of a long-standing vision Gilles Lellouche had nurtured ever since reading the eponymous novel by Neville Thompson, gifted to him by Belgian actor Benoît Poelvoorde. The pair set about drafting the film, eventually putting it to the side to focus on Sink or Swim.

Gilles Lellouche got back to writing the screenplay with his co-screenwriter on Sink or Swim Ahmed Hamidi, and Audrey Diwan (The Event, Just the Two of Us, The Stronghold), with a view to bringing to life an incredible romantic teen movie-cum-musical with hints of Scorsese and West Side Story.

The romance begins in the 1980s and unfolds over two decades, buoyed by a glittering French cast: young Jackie and Clotaire are brought to life by Mallory Wanecque (seen in The Worst Ones by Lise Akoka and Romane Gueret) and Malik Frikah (Apaches by Thierry de Peretti), and played in their older versions by François Civil and Adèle Exarchopoulos, with the latter noting that “it was the first time a script has made me want to love and be loved so hard”.

Christine and the Queens and Madonna dancers the La Horde collective handled the choreography, taking this musical to the next level with as much flair as they did in 2020’s mind-blowing Room With a View.