SummaryFrédéric, 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 unaware o... Read More
Directed By:Zabou Breitman
Written By:Zabou Breitman, Agnès de Sacy
The Man of My Life
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75
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.
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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.
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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.
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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
Awards
Globes de Cristal Awards, France
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination




























