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  • 2011
  • R
  • Music Box Films
  • 1 h 40 m
  • 2011
  • R
  • Music Box Films
  • 1 h 40 m

Summary Baya Benmahmoud, a young, extroverted liberal lives by the old hippie slogan: “Make love, not war” to convert right-wing men to her lefty political causes by sleeping with them. She seduces many and so far has received exceptional results until she meets Arthur Martin, a middle aged, middle-of-the road scientist. While Arthur appears ...

Directed By: Michel Leclerc

Written By: Baya Kasmi, Michel Leclerc

  • 2011
  • R
  • Music Box Films
  • 1 h 40 m
  • 2011
  • R
  • Music Box Films
  • 1 h 40 m

The Names of Love

Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 19 Critic Reviews
62
User Score Generally Favorable Based on 9 User Ratings
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Summary Baya Benmahmoud, a young, extroverted liberal lives by the old hippie slogan: “Make love, not war” to convert right-wing men to her lefty political causes by sleeping with them. She seduces many and so far has received exceptional results until she meets Arthur Martin, a middle aged, middle-of-the road scientist. While Arthur appears ...

Directed By: Michel Leclerc

Written By: Baya Kasmi, Michel Leclerc

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Metascore
Generally Favorable Based on 19 Critic Reviews
62
68% Positive
13 Reviews
21% Mixed
4 Reviews
11% Negative
2 Reviews

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Metascore
Generally Favorable Based on 19 Critic Reviews
62
68% Positive
13 Reviews
21% Mixed
4 Reviews
11% Negative
2 Reviews

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100
Jul 28, 2011
Forestier's performance is a tour de force of comic acting, maintaining astonishing alertness and energy from shot to shot and scene to scene.
By Mick LaSalle FULL REVIEW
75
Oct 5, 2011
The leads are charmingly mismatched, but adorable enough to root for, as a couple. Forestier is a wildly uninhibited actress, sexy as all get out. She makes this girl dangerous, seemingly capable of anything.
By Roger Moore FULL REVIEW
75
Jun 23, 2011
The American romantic comedy has grown distressingly moribund lately, but anyone looking to freshen up the genre a bit need look no further than Michel Leclerc's The Names Of Love.
By Keith Phipps FULL REVIEW
70
Jun 23, 2011
For all the potentially dangerous subjects it glosses, above all the tangled legacies of the Holocaust and the Algerian war, The Names of Love dances away from any uncomfortable provocation. Even when sticking out its tongue, it is finally just an airy comedy riding on one cheeky, incandescent performance.
By Stephen Holden FULL REVIEW
63
Jun 21, 2011
Chockfull of ideas in a way that's both scattershot and more than a little exciting.
By Andrew Schenker FULL REVIEW
40
Jun 21, 2011
The pathetic attempts at outré, taboo-busting humor as sociopolitical commentary can't disguise what this film really is: a mawkish, MOR comedy of manners that even its straw man Nicolas Sarkozy would find suitable for date night.
By Melissa Anderson FULL REVIEW
20
Jun 24, 2011
Director Michel Leclerc's comedy plays like one of those foreign-movie spoofs Jerry and the gang would go to see on a "Seinfeld" episode. Only here, there's no "young girl's journey from Milan to Minsk" - just from madcap to moronic.
By Joe Neumaier FULL REVIEW

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User Score
Generally Favorable Based on 9 User Ratings
7.0
67% Positive
6 Ratings
22% Mixed
2 Ratings
11% Negative
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Generally Favorable Based on 9 User Ratings
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67% Positive
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22% Mixed
2 Ratings
11% Negative
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Production Company Delante Films, Karé Productions, TF1 Droits Audiovisuels, Canal+, TPS Star, La Région Île-de-France, Banque Populaire Images 10, Uni Étoile 7, Sofica Valor 7, Centre national du cinéma et de l'image animée (CNC)
Release Date Jun 24, 2011
Duration 1 h 40 m
Rating R
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Website http://www.musicboxfilms.com/the-names-of-love
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Awards

César Awards, France
• 2 Wins & 4 Nominations
Globes de Cristal Awards, France
• 2 Nominations
Étoiles d'Or, France
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination

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