‘Beating Hearts’ Review: Gilles Lellouche’s Melodramatic Romance Epic Loses the Magic

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Beating Hearts (L’amour Ouf) - Directed by Gilles Lellouche
Beating Hearts (L’amour Ouf) – Directed by Gilles Lellouche — Cannes 2024

Ah, to be young and in love. There is no feeling more intoxicating. It’s like an entire world of joy and emotion you’ve never experienced has opened before you just as it can narrow your focus. You believe that you are invincible and that nothing will ever take this away. This is the bread and butter of Gilles Lellouche’s “Beating Hearts” (titled “L’AMOUR OUF” in French) which chronicles the lives of two star-crossed lovers from their meeting in youth all the way through to adulthood.

It’s a film that comes out of the gate with plenty of verve, a great duo of young actors, and its heart on its sleeve (or stuck on the wall in the form of chewing gum).

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