Lyon Lies Bleeding: Mouret Explores L’amour Fou (Encore)
Even for those unfamiliar with the filmography of Emmanuel Mouret, his latest film, Three Friends will unequivocally seem ‘tres francais,’ which bears the curse of familiarity and the blessing of credibility as regards complicated romantic entanglements. Co-written by Carmen Leroi (in her first screenwriting credit), it’s a story of three women in modern day Lyon who all seem to be a bit unlucky in love, their understanding of it both paralleling and intersecting one another. The narrative thrust is right up Mouret’s alley, covering similar territory quite recently with offerings such as 2020’s Love Affair(s) (read review) and 2022’s Diary of a Fleeting Affair, where marriages end up being situations requiring an escape either sought after or accidentally transpiring.… Read the rest
