Les jeunes amants: French drama starring Fanny Ardant tells an extraordinary love story between an older woman and a younger man.
Plot and background
15 years ago, Shauna (Fanny Ardant) and the doctor Pierre (Melvil Poupand) met in the hospital. He was treating her dying best friend at the time. Already here the two felt attracted to each other, but their paths initially parted for an indefinite period of time.
In the meantime Pierre is married to Jeanne (Cécile de France). The marriage has already produced two children. Now Pierre meets Shauna again in an unexpected place. She is friends with Pierre’s best friend Georges (Sharif Andoura). Together, Shauna, Pierre and Georges spend a few days at Georges’ old childhood home in the south of Ireland.
Back in Paris, Pierre reconnects with Shauna. The romantic spark is ignited, but when the affair soon comes out in the open, incomprehension and many arguments in their families are pre-programmed. Can this love have a future?
In the trailer for the emotional love story, drama is pre-programmed:
“Young at heart” – background, cast, theatrical release
This emotional love story about an older woman and a younger man was the initially unfinished project of French director Sólveig Anspach (1960-2015), who died at an early age, and was roughly based on the life of Anspach’s mother. To complete the work, director Carine Tardieu (“A Breton Love”) took over the romantic drama.
The Belgian-French drama is told entirely without frills or kitsch and tries to present the unusual relationship and its consequences for fellow human beings as unadulterated as possible. The leading roles are played by Fanny Ardant (“8 Women”), Melvil Poupand (“Laurence Anyways”) and Cécile de France (“The Swarm”). “Young at Heart” had its world premiere at the 2021 Rome Film Festival before opening in German theaters on August 3, 2023. The romantic drama received FSK clearance from 12 years.
