Synopsis
Lionel has a way with women. His sexual exploits make his friends jealous. One of them, Alain, challenges him to seduce a beautiful woman picked at random, fall in love with her and spend a night with her — but abstain from making love. Claire is the chosen victim. Behind Claire’s prim and proper façade there lurks a vigorous, demanding sexuality in full bloom. The self-control that Lionel struggles to maintain to win his bet begins to intrigue her. She decides to take the offensive. As Alain tells it to young Sophie on a café terrace three years later, the cautionary tale of Lionel affably gives the lie to a range of popular prejudices about virility and male sexuality.
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Director (1)
Actors (17)
Production and distribution (4)
- Executive Producer : K'ien Productions
- Co-productions : Les Films de l'Arlequin, Zen Production, Expand Images, Alinéa Films
- Foreign production companies : Igeldo Kommunikazioa, Ventura Film
- French distribution : AB International Distribution
Full credits (18)
- Executive Producer : David Kodsi
- Assistant Director : Gilles Balézeaux
- Adaptation : Olivier Péray
- Associate Producer : Dominique Ambiel
- Sound Recordist : Dominique Levert
- Line Producer : Jan Vasak
- Screenwriters : Éric Assous, Olivier Péray
- Director of Photography : Carlo Varini
- Assistant Operator : Isabelle Dumas
- Production Manager : Sylvestre Guarino
- Press Attaché (film) : Vanessa Jerrom
- Editor : Anna Ruiz
- Sound editor : Corinne Rozenberg
- Continuity supervisor : Josiane Morand
- Production Designer : Guiseppe Ponturo
- Music Composer : David François Moreau
- Sound mixers : Dominique Dalmasso, Corinne Rozenberg
- Still Photographer : David Verlant
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Technical details
- Type : Feature film
- Genres : Fiction
- Production language : French
- Coproducer countries : France, Switzerland, Spain
- Original French-language productions : Unspecified
- Nationality : Majority French (France, Switzerland, Spain)
- Production year : 1998
- French release : 11/03/1998
- Runtime : 1 h 35 min
- Current status : Released
- Visa number : 88.772
- Visa issue date : 14/11/1997
- Approval : Yes
- Production formats : 35mm
- Color type : Color
- Aspect ratio : 1.85
- Audio format : Dolby SR
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News & awards
Selections (2)
Awards (1)
Cesar Awards - French film industry awards
France, 1999
César Award for Most Promising Actor : Bruno Putzulu
Delegations (1)
About
To tell a story about female desire and male sexual fragility, I felt I had to take a humorous line, so long as I stayed within the bounds of credibility and made sure that the characters never appeared artificial. We’re a long way from the belly-laughs that some comedies provoke, but we’re also far from opposite extreme of the serious film with a message. Ideally, I would like people to feel that “Love Tangles” is a delicate mixture of emotion and funniness, depth and lightness — a film that has something to say but says it with a smile. (Eric Assous, co-scriptwriter - excerpt from press kit)
