All about love

Love stories in films seem to follow the same tired formula: love at first sight, declarations of love, painful separation and reunion, leading to the expected happy ending. So why do we continue to love them so much? Probably because we don’t fall in love every day, and simply seeing this feeling arise and be experienced by others, even on screen, brings us back to the desire to inhabit the very idea of romantic reality. To explore this desire, this thematic programme aims to broaden the idea of love to include multiple forms of attachment (friendship, affection, tenderness), which are all ways of creating a sense of ‘us’ with others, from one continent to another.