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  • 2007
  • Unrated
  • Strand Releasing
  • 1 h 54 m
  • 2007
  • Unrated
  • Strand Releasing
  • 1 h 54 m

Summary Frédéric, his wife Frédérique, and their entire clan are spending another summer in their family house deep in the verdant Provençale countryside. A solitary gay man, Hugo, has moved in next door. After a convivial dinner, Frédéric and Hugo stay up on the terrace until dawn, exchanging their radically different visions of love. Entirely ...

Directed By: Zabou Breitman

Written By: Agnès de Sacy, Zabou Breitman

  • 2007
  • Unrated
  • Strand Releasing
  • 1 h 54 m
  • 2007
  • Unrated
  • Strand Releasing
  • 1 h 54 m

The Man of My Life

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Summary Frédéric, his wife Frédérique, and their entire clan are spending another summer in their family house deep in the verdant Provençale countryside. A solitary gay man, Hugo, has moved in next door. After a convivial dinner, Frédéric and Hugo stay up on the terrace until dawn, exchanging their radically different visions of love. Entirely ...

Directed By: Zabou Breitman

Written By: Agnès de Sacy, Zabou Breitman

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25% Positive
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75% Mixed
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0% Negative
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If the film ultimately amounts to little more than a middle-aged coming-of-age story, it's richly imagined and filled fanciful touches in keeping with its passionate subject.
By Maitland McDonagh FULL REVIEW
50
The film's arresting beauty--shots of a curtain blowing into a shadowed stairwell, or a meadow of sunflowers, or a head resting on a shoulder--is nearly enough.
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The Man of My Life is a sumptuously illustrated but shallow fable of the grass-is-greener conflict between freedom and commitment.
By Stephen Holden FULL REVIEW
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A drama that steadily succumbs to self-conscious artiness, drunk on its own sense of contrived poetry and cloudy existential reflection.
By David Rooney FULL REVIEW

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Production Company Pan Européenne, France 3 Cinéma, Rhône-Alpes Cinéma, StudioUrania, Sofica Europacorp, Carrimages, Canal+, CinéCinéma, Centre Européen Cinématographique Rhône-Alpes, Centre national du cinéma et de l'image animée (CNC)
Release Date Sep 21, 2007
Duration 1 h 54 m
Rating Unrated
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Awards

Globes de Cristal Awards, France
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination

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