Les Chansons d'Amour (Love Songs)

Christophe Honoré should be applauded for his audacity to merge two very different genres such as drama and musical into one that Bollywood has mastered but almost impossible to recreate elsewhere. There's no mistake that this film is as French as it gets with liberal views you would expect to see besides the attractive cast and Parisian locals. Lovers Ismaël and Julie live a perfect life in Paris and engage in a "ménage à trois" with Alice before tragedy strikes out of blue that leaves everybody around them shattered. It's a story you would expect least to have the characters burst into songs. The songs works at times and becomes distracting at others. Since it's a film you don't see often, it's worth watching. YRCinema's coverage of films on DVD.