QUANTUM LOVE / Une Rencontre

North American Premiere • Romance • France, 2013

DCP • 1.85 • Dolby 5.1 • Color • 81 min

 

Directed by: Lisa Azuelos

Written by: Lisa Azuelos

Cinematography: Alain Duplantier

Film Editing: Stan Collet

Produced by: Lisa Azuelos (Bethsabée Mucho) Julien Madon,  Romain Legrand

Coproduced by: Pathé Films, TF1 Films Production, Chaocorp

Cast: Sophie Marceau (Elsa), François Cluzet (Pierre), Niels Schneider (Hugo), Lisa Azuelos (Anne)

International Sales: Pathé Distribution • patheinternational.com

 

Like two particles that pass in multi-dimensional space, the course of Elsa and Pierre’s lives are changed by a chance encounter at a book fair. A flirtatious glance, senses set on edge, the electric charge of first contact as a lighter changes hands, the excitement of fresh possibilities, perhaps a second meeting. But Pierre, played by François Cluzet in his first romantic role, stops the potential physical superposition cold. After all, he is a faithfully married father of two. Then a second chance encounter makes it harder to ignore the possibilities presented by their easy, mutual attraction. But Elsa has a rule, a taboo even, about married men, and again their potential romantic entanglement is cut off without an exchange of coordinates. As they go about their lives, however, those possibilities start to impose themselves   – in ways they would never have imagined.

 

Known for her sparkling romantic comedies, writer/director Lisa Azuelos began her career writing for a French television series. Through Luc Besson, she met her future husband Patrick Alessandrin, and co-wrote and co-directed the comedy Ainsi soient-elles, (1995) with him. She directed and co-wrote (with Nans Delgado) the 2008 film, LOL, Laughing Out Loud®, which proved so successful that she remade the film in America in 2012. Quantum Love was inspired in part by her own separation, and the ways her new marital status changed her friends and associates’ perceptions of her. Less comedic than her previous work, this will-they/won’t-they romance will close the 2014 COLCOA Competition as an International Premiere, just three days after its release in France.