The Names of Love ( Le nom des gens ) ( People's Names )

The Names of Love (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: Le nom des gens
Alternate Title: People's Names
Language Selections:
English ( Subtitles )
French ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
French ( Dolby Digital 5.1 )
French ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
France ( PAL/Region 2 )

Running Time:
100 min

Aspect Ratio:
Fullscreen

Special Features:
Interactive Menu
Making Of
Scene Access
Short Film

Movie filmed in 2010 and produced in:
France ( France, Benelux )

Directed By:
Michel Leclerc

Written By:
Michel Leclerc
Baya Kasmi

Actors:
Jacques Gamblin ..... Arthur Martin
Sara Forestier ..... Baya Benmahmoud
Zinedine Soualem ..... Mohamed Benhmamoud
Carole Franck ..... Cécile Delivet Benmahmoud
Jacques Boudet ..... Lucien Martin
Michèle Moretti ..... Annette Martin
Zakariya Gouram ..... Hassan Hassini
Julia Vaidis-Bogard ..... Annette à 30 ans
Adrien Stoclet ..... Arthur Martin adolescent
Camille Gigot ..... Arthur Martin enfant
Laura Genovino ..... Bahia Benmahmoud enfant
Rose Marit ..... Annette enfant
Youari Kime ..... Mohamed Benmahmoud enfant
Yann Goven ..... Le pianiste
Nabil Massad ..... Nassim

Synopsis:

How many years has it been since you encountered someone waving a placard or wearing a T-shirt with the slogan, 'Make love, not war"? Resurrected in the French satirical farce 'The Names of Love," that hippie free-loving attitude is personified by Baya Benmahmoud (Sara Forestier), a charming, insouciant whack job in her 20s who boasts that she always sleeps with a man on their first date. The daughter of an Algerian immigrant and a onetime French radical, Baya carries that philosophy to comic extremes that would have been unimaginable even in 1968. She is also a walking wardrobe malfunction, who is so absent-minded that her breasts are repeatedly falling out of her shirt. In one of the movie's funniest scenes she dashes into the Paris M?o naked but for a pair of boots and startles an Islamic fundamentalist couple across the car. Baya blithely wields her body as a weapon of political persuasion. On meeting a man who is even a shade to the right of her avidly left-wing politics; or in her words, a 'fascist," a term she drops as casually as others say 'dude" and 'babe"; she drags him into bed for a quickie conversion. Just as he is about to lose control, she whispers things like, 'Not all Algerians are thieves." The screenplay by Michel Leclerc, who also directed, and Baya Kasmi doesn't pretend that her sex magic always has the desired effect.

Bahia Benmahmoud, a free-spirited young woman, has a particular way of seeing political engagement, as she doesn't hesitate to sleep with those who don't agree with her to convert them to her cause - which is a lot of people, as all right-leaning people are concerned. Generally, it works pretty well. Until the day she meets Arthur Martin, a discreet forty-something who doesn't like taking risks. She imagines that with a name like that, he's got to be slightly fascist. But names are deceitful and appearances deceiving...

The encounter between Bahia and Arthur Martin. The former, a young, extroverted left-wing activist, sleeps with her political opponents to convert them to her cause. She achieves good results, until she meets Arthur Martin. She imagines that with a name like that (a kitchen brand), he'll be a tough one. But appearances are deceptive...

This product was added to our catalog on Tuesday 13 September, 2011.

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