Un plus une

Un plus une is a 2015 French romantic comedy film directed by Claude Lelouch and starring Jean Dujardin, Elsa Zylberstein, Christopher Lambert and Alice Pol.[2] It was shown in the Special Presentations section of the 2015 Toronto International Film Festival.[3]

Un plus une
Film poster
Directed byClaude Lelouch
Produced byMarc Dujardin
Samuel Hadida
Victor Hadida
Claude Lelouch
Jean-Paul de Vidas
Written byClaude Lelouch
Valérie Perrin
StarringJean Dujardin
Elsa Zylberstein
Christopher Lambert
Alice Pol
Music byFrancis Lai
CinematographyRobert Alazraki
Edited byStéphane Mazalaigue
Production
company
Les Films 13
Davis-Films
JD Prod
France 2 Cinéma
Distributed byMetropolitan Filmexport
Release date
  • 29 August 2015 (2015-08-29) (Angoulême)
  • 9 December 2015 (2015-12-09) (France)
Running time
113 minutes
CountryFrance
LanguageFrench
Box office$7.7 million[1]

Plot

Antoine Abeilard (Jean Dujardin), a famed film composer travels to India at the request of an Indian director (Rahul Vohra) to score a Bollywood romance.

Once he lands, he tries avoiding the marriage proposal of his pianist girlfriend (Alice Pol), and finds a distraction in Anna Hamon (Elsa Zylberstein), wife of the French ambassador (Christophe Lambert) to India. She befriends Antoine at a VIP dinner with a talk of dharma.

Her emotional interests compels Antoine to follow her on a “fertility pilgrimage.” She and her husband, a man she seemingly only admires without passion, have been trying to conceive a child; Anna is hopeful that participating in ritual Hindu gatherings will help her. Antoine follows Anna to find a cure for his troubling headaches, though he is equally enamored by being with Anna.

Antoine travels with Anna to the holy city of Varanasi, and then south to Amritapuri to receive an embrace from the "hugging saint" Amma, also known as Mata Amritanandamayi. The scenes with Amma are shot in documentary style by cinematographer Robert Alazraki through unobtrusive videography. Amma had agreed to be filmed but did not know who among the thousands of people she embraced that day were movie stars. The film captures the two performers’ first contact with the spiritual guru; their responses to her, both emotional and playful, reveal much on their respective characters.[4][5]

Through a range of settings, such as a striking sequence shot at the banks of the Ganges, the leads convey their characters’ friendship with each other but also their underlying romantic tension.

Cast

Production

Principal photography began on 6 January 2015 and took place over a period of six weeks in India, in cities including Mumbai, Varanasi and New Delhi.[6] Certain parts of it were also filmed in Amritapuri in Kerala at the ashram of Mata Amritanandamayi.[7]

Accolades
Award / Film Festival Category Recipients and nominees Result
Lumières Awards[8] Best Actress Elsa Zylberstein Nominated

References
  1. "Un plus une". Box Office Mojo.
  2. "Un plus une". TIFF. 28 July 2015. Retrieved 28 July 2015.
  3. "Toronto to open with 'Demolition'; world premieres for 'Trumbo', 'The Program'". ScreenDaily. 28 July 2015. Retrieved 28 July 2015.
  4. "'Un Plus Une': TIFF Review". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 2 January 2020.
  5. "Un Plus Une Archives". Amma, Mata Amritanandamayi Devi. Retrieved 2 January 2020.
  6. ""Un plus une" - Le nouveau tournage du film de Claude Lelouch a débuté". Paris Match. 6 January 2015.
  7. "Un Plus Une Archives". Amma, Mata Amritanandamayi Devi. Retrieved 2 January 2020.
  8. "France's Lumiere Awards: 'Mustang' Takes Top Honors". The Hollywood Reporter. 8 February 2016.
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