Movie Review

Love Songs (2008)

Reviewed by Lisa Schwarzbaum | Mar 19, 2008

Lisa Schwarzbaum

Lisa Schwarzbaum is a film critic for EW

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EW's GRADE

B+

Details Limited Release: Mar 19, 2008; Rated: Unrated; Length: 95 Minutes; Genre: Musical; With: Chiara Mastroianni and Louis Garrel

$LOVE SONGS Ludivine Sagnier (l) and Chiara Mastroianni in Christophe Honoré\'s film, which channels the spirit of Umbrellas of Cherbourg Love Songs$

LOVE SONGS Ludivine Sagnier (l) and Chiara Mastroianni in Christophe Honoré's film, which channels the spirit of Umbrellas of Cherbourg

Boy loves girl and sings about it, boy loses girl to tragedy and sings about it, then boy considers the possibility of new love with a new boy and sings about it — and the whole thing works, in a delirious French way. Collaborating again with his sensual male muse Louis Garrel, after Dans Paris, Christophe Honoré and songwriter Alex Beaupain update the spirit of Jacques Demy's The Umbrellas of Cherbourg for a new youthquake generation with Love Songs: Chiara Mastroianni charms here just as her maman, Catherine Deneuve, did in Demy's 1964 classic. B+

Originally posted Mar 19, 2008 Published in issue #984 Mar 28, 2008 Order article reprints

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