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Love has always dictated the movie stories by Claude Lelouch and this last (and 50th) one does not disappoint the aficionados.

Excellent actors as usual, between the natural and easy going Gérard Darmon, the solar Sandrine Bonnaire, the touching Clémentine Célarié, the always weird and black humored Béatrice Dalle and the likeable duo Philippe Lellouch/Ary Abittan without forgetting the too short presence of the beautiful Elsa Zylberstein, all the world of Claude is in this adventure of nostalgia, life and death with a lot of décalé fun scenes though the topic is sad.

2 hours without boredom, "L'amour c'est mieux que la vie" (Love is better than life) is the part 1 out of 3 (second try of a trilogy, which previously failed with "la comédie humaine").

Morever, I had had both the chance to see this movie in preview and with the presence of the director and actor Kev Adams, so the pleasure was complete!

I have just discovered this movie at random and I don't regret it. I am impressed by the Finnish spoken by French actor Nicolas Maury who I know from the 10 % series ever since. Just refreshing and light and one can always appreciate the presence of Carmen Maura...

After the unfair successive failure of the aborted trilogy of "La Comédie Humaine", we thought that Claude Lelouch was broke for a long time whereas Roman de Gare is released less than 2 years after "le courage d'aimer", the second and final opus of the forecast trilogy. Shot in secret with a nom de plume, Roman de Gare recalls a little of the freshness of the Lelouch of the 60's, but also lacks of the grandeur we were used to: the image quality is pretty poor, the cast is not all stars, though Fanny Ardant, Truffaud's egerie is superb as usual, we feel Lelouch had really little money to shoot; not a great music as usual(late Gilbert Becaud was a respected French singer, but the choice of the songs does not highlight the scenes to my feelings), the story is centered on a murder story, but is actually a pretext to demonstrate once more the human and love relations that the director is famous to be a passionate of. Not the greatest Lelouch, but not boring either due mainly to an unusual funny script and a pretty good acting.