Love Songs

Ismaël and Julie are a young Parisian couple whose relationship has grown stale. Hoping to revive it, they invite Alice, a colleague of Ismaël's, into their bed. The arrangement is playful but becomes complicated: Alice's attention drifts, and Julie, who misses having Ismaël to herself, finds the situation increasingly hard to bear. When a sudden death ends the threesome, Ismaël is left adrift in grief. Julie's sister Jeanne tries to comfort him without success, and a young man named Erwann becomes the one who draws him out of his sorrow.

Christophe Honoré directed and wrote the film, which stands third among his features, following Ma mère and In Paris and preceding The Beautiful Person. Paulo Branco produced it. Louis Garrel plays Ismaël, with Ludivine Sagnier as Julie, Clotilde Hesme as Alice, Chiara Mastroianni as Jeanne, Grégoire Leprince-Ringuet as Erwann and Brigitte Roüan as Julie's mother. The film runs 90 minutes.

Released in May 2007, the French production took in about 3 million dollars worldwide. On IMDb it holds a 7 out of 10 from roughly 11,000 votes, while on TMDB it scores 6.9 out of 10 from around 269 votes, indicating generally favourable audience response across both platforms.