Down by Love

Down by Love
Film poster
Éperdument
Directed by Pierre Godeau
Produced by Philippe Godeau
Cyril Colbeau-Justin
Jean-Baptiste Dupont
Nathalie Gastaldo
Screenplay by Pierre Godeau
Florent Gonçalves
Catherine Siguret
Based on Défense d'aimer
by Florent Gonçalves
Starring Guillaume Gallienne
Adèle Exarchopoulos
Music by Robin Coudert
Cinematography Muriel Cravatte
Edited by Hervé de Luze
Production
company
Pan-Européenne
StudioCanal
France 2 Cinéma
LGM Productions
Appaloosa Distribution
Don't Be Shy Productions
Versus Production
Distributed by StudioCanal
Release date
  • 25 February 2016 (2016-02-25) (Paris premiere)
  • 2 March 2016 (2016-03-02) (France)
Running time
 110 minutes
Country France
Language French
Box office $50,828[1]

Down by Love (French: Éperdument) is a 2016 French drama film directed by Pierre Godeau.

Plot

Based on the life of Sorour Arbabzadeh and Florent Goncalves in 2010, a young woman (born in 1987) is detained at a prison for women in Versailles, where she encounters Florent Goncalves, the prison director. She is sentenced to nine years in prison for her role in The Affair of the Gang of Barbarians. She is released in January 2012.

Cast

  • Guillaume Gallienne as Jean Firmino
  • Adèle Exarchopoulos as Anna Amari
  • Stéphanie Cléau as Elise Firmino
  • Marie Rivière as Anna's mother
  • Aliénor Poisson as Louise Firmino
  • Cyrielle Martinez as Zoé
  • Selma Mansouri as Sonia
  • Sabila Moussadek as Aïda
  • Julie Moulier as Pilar
  • Marie Berto as Béatrice
  • Amir El Kacem as Mam's
  • Soumaye Bocoum as Mélanie
  • Ahlem Lahouel as Ahlem
  • Nade Dieu as The captain
  • Anne Loiret as Anna's lawyer
  • Maryline Even as Co-prisoner at Fleury
  • Olivier Foubert as The teacher
  • Aude Briant as The secretary

Critical response

On review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, Down by Love has an approval rating of 33%, based on 6 reviews, with an average rating of 4.7/10.[2]

References

  1. ↑ "Down By Love". Box Office Mojo.
  2. ↑ "Down By Love (Éperdument) (2016)". Rotten Tomatoes.
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