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Updated August 24, 2024: Blurry love returns to television this Saturday evening on France 4. This comedy directed by Romane Bohringer and Philippe Rebbot, based on their own story, had won over the editorial staff of Première when it was released in theaters in 2018. Note that the film was also adapted into a TV series for Canal Plus in 2021.
Article from October 10, 2018: They took everything they had on hand (their known friends –Reda Kateb – or not, their dog, their children, their parents – including Richard -, their houses and even the real Clémentine Autain) to tie together, at low cost, the most endearing anti-romantic comedy of the fall. But Romane Bohringer And Philippe Rebbota real couple in real life, have mainly taken their real feelings to construct the well-crafted story of the decline of their love.
The gamble of French-style cinematic autofiction was a real risk, and they pull it off well. Their story is both banal (ten years of living together, two beautiful children and the inevitable falling out of love that eventually rears its ugly head) and unique (in order not to hit too hard, they decide to break down the wall and live in two separate apartments, but connected by their children's bedrooms). Above all, the two actors are terribly touching, stripped of all ego, immersed up to their necks in their struggle to leave each other with dignity.
The shape of their Blurry love is also in their image: chaotic, imperfect, a sort of charming hybridization between tears and laughter, bad faith and a rare sincerity, the documentary of their holiday memories filmed on the iPhone and pure fiction. It is she who ends up carrying away the viewer, who forgets that these are two real former lovers that they have before their eyes and lets himself be carried away by this romance so honestly lived that it becomes universal, condensing in itself all our past loves.