Love Songs For Tough Guys

"A film by Samuel Benchetrit"

In the port city of Dunkirk, weary crime boss Jeff (The Belier Familys wonderful Damiens) has a big problem: young punks are muscling in on his turf. But Jeff is distracted: hes fallen for Roxane, a supermarket cashier he adores from afar. Taking a leaf from the Cyrano playbook, he tries to win her heart by writing love poems, but doesnt have the courage to deliver them. Two other clueless associates (a super pairing of JoeyStarr and Bouli Lanners) try all sorts of arm-twisting to convince some high school kids to come to Jeffs daughters 18th birthday party. Meanwhile, Jeff's grizzled and near-mute enforcer is sent to shake down local suburban widow Suzanne (a never-better Paradis), who is preparing to portray Simone de Beauvoir in the community theatres annual musical, but instead finds himself drawn into the actual production With an exquisitely layered script that slowly reveals genuine pathos for all its characters, LOVE SONGS FOR TOUGH GUYS is a deadpan but giddly romantic fable of imperfect people with complex and passionate interior lives.

Details

Format: DVD
Genre: Drama
Rating: M
Release Date: 03 08 2022
Production Year: 2021
Run Time: 107
Languages: French
Rating Advice: Coarse Language| Mature Themes And Violence
Distributor: Madman Entertainment
Directors: Samuel Benchetrit

Actors: François Damiens, Ramzy Bedia, Vanessa Paradis, Gustave Kervern, JoeyStarr, Bouli Lanners, Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, Raphaelle Doyle, Constance Rousseau, Vincent Macaigne, Bruno Podalydès, Jules Benchetrit, Thierry Gimenez, Jean-Pierre Martinage, Josiane Vasseur, Christophe Reymond, Poppée Bashung, Thibault Cathalifaud, Victor Mégret, Angelina Woreth, Jean-Louis Barcelona, Julien Prévost, Tulika Srivastava, Partha Pratim Majumder, Elsa Ramashree, Fabrice Adde, Léa Arrache, Maëlle Marin, Saul Benchetrit, Christel Baras, Réhab Mehal, Sofiane Bennacer, Eddy Suiveng, Chloé Renaud, Fabienne Galula, Gábor Rassov, Guillaume Martinage, Jean-Matthieu Hulin, Arnaud Simon, Anouck Hilbey, Thomas Bidegain