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‘Love Letters’ Review: A French Lesbian Couple Navigates Pregnancy in Alice Douard’s Beautifully Realized Directorial Debut
'Raw' star Ella Rumpf returns to Cannes Critics' Week with this drama about a French lesbian couple navigating pregnancy and adoption.
The year is 2014 in freshman director Alice Douard ’s lightly comic drama “ Love Letters ” and French couple Nadia (Monia Chokri) and Céline ( Ella Rumpf) are expecting their first child. Soliciting from her parent a supportive written statement (the “proof of love” alluded to in the film’s French title, “Des preuves d’amour”), required for the adoption, is perhaps the trickiest hurdle in a journey which ought to be joyous, and is instead fraught with various microaggressions and unacknowledged trauma. But it is beautifully realized and broadly relatable, with a tight, humane focus on individual people’s ordinary hopes, dreams and fears, set against the backdrop of a particular moment in French social progress.
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