Lovers (1999 film)

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Lovers
Directed by Jean-Marc Barr
Written by Jean-Marc Barr
Pascal Arnold
Produced byPascal Arnold
Starring Élodie Bouchez
Sergej Trifunović
Cinematography Jean-Marc Barr
Edited byBrian Schmitt
Production
companies
Bar Nothing
TF1 International
Tolodo
Release date
  • 8 December 1999 (1999-12-08)
Running time
100 minutes
CountryFrance
LanguagesEnglish
French
Serbo-Croatian
Budget$800.000
Box office$92.000 [1]

Lovers is a 1999 French drama film directed by Jean-Marc Barr. It was the fifth film and the first non-Danish film to be made under the self-imposed rules of the Dogme 95 manifesto. [2]

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Plot

Jeanne and Dragan meet in a Paris bookshop - she's working there, he's looking for a book on the English painter Dante Gabriel Rossetti. The two strike up a passionate affair, but Dragan doesn't tell her that he is in the country illegally. [3]

Cast

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References

  1. "Lovers (1999) - JPBox-Office".
  2. "Dogme95 - Dogmefilms". www.dogme95.dk. Archived from the original on 11 November 2008. Retrieved 13 January 2022.
  3. "Lovers". IMDb .