Toujours In Love With L Amour
Early on, a gruff, married businessman named Castella (Bacri) is overcome by a local performance of Racine’s “Berenice.” He’s so taken with the star, the aloof Clara (Anne Alvaro), that he hires her to teach him English and woos her with an earnest, stumbling–and genuinely touching–resolve, even as he’s mocked by her artsy friends and hectored by his wife (Christiane Millet), an interior decorator from hell. Meanwhile, Castella’s roguish bodyguard (Gerard Lanvin) and his naive chauffeur (Alain Chabat) fall for the same woman–a bartending hashish dealer (director Jaoui)....