Last night I saw Love Songs, the new “musical” by writer-director Christophe Honoré. The songs are a little awkward, but it has all the great ingredients of French cinema that I enjoy so much: the brusque attitude, ménage à trois, death and melancholy, attractive players, fluid sexuality, way open family conversations, Paris and…shelves galore!
The film is impeccably art directed, with each character going through their drama in gloriously chic disarray. (Erwann’s room has especially pleasing shelf arrangements.) Unfortunately the above shot of Louis Garrel (who plays the lead, Ismaël) is the only still I could find with any shelving and it’s not the best example. The trailer, however, offers a few glimpses.
