The Nature of Love

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The Nature of Love

Released Jul 5, 2024

1h 51m

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Romance

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Sophia, a 40-year-old philosophy professor, has been in a stable and conventional marriage to Xavier for a decade. From gallery openings to endless dinner parties, ten years have flown by. When Sophia meets Sylvain, a craftsman renovating the couple's new country house, Sophia's world is turned upside down. The two begin a passionate affair fueled by their irresistible physical connection. However, Sophia comes from a wealthy family of intellectuals, while Sylvain comes from a working-class family of manual workers. As they get to know each other on a deeper level, Sophia begins to question her own values after abandoning herself to her great romantic impulses. Director Monia Chokri delivers a smart and sexy romantic comedy, infusing it with spiky energy and fresh perspective, upending genre and gender conventions.

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Critics Consensus

Capturing the spontaneity of love in all its messy highs and lows, this naturalistic romantic comedy provides fresh and modern insight to classic tropes.

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Christian Zilko

IndieWire

Monia Chokri‘s brilliant feature is one of the sharpest cinematic examinations of the paradoxical expectations we place on our relationships in the 21st century.

Rated: A-

Jul 8, 2024

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Peyton Robinson

RogerEbert.com

Steamy affairs and love triangles are not a recent cinematic invention ... but Chokri takes the familiar subject matter and crafts it with the whimsy of old and the depth of new.

Rated: 4/4

Jul 7, 2024

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Kevin Maher

The Times (UK)

A film that’s somehow sensitively enough directed by Chokri to make this extramarital relationship fizz and crackle beyond the usual smutty clichés.

Rated: 3/5

Jul 5, 2024

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Steve Erickson

Arts Fuse

Director Monia Chokri finds a language for communicating Sophia’s desire without putting her body on display.

Aug 5, 2024

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Matt Pais

MattPais.com

Feels like such a duplication of the insights of “Take This Waltz,” while also struggling to even engage its own ideas, that it borders on pointless.

Rated: C

Aug 5, 2024

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Brittany Patrice Witherspoon

Pop Culture Reviews

The Nature of Love is bold, charming, and funny in how it captures complacency in relationships and what happens when a woman craves more adventure and passion.

Rated: 4/5

Jul 26, 2024

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Achille C

The story is intriguing and captures the viewer's attention. It highlights well the problems of a new relationship based solely on physical attraction. I liked it a lot.

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

10/24/24

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Rory M

Electric chemistry. Fair and realistic take on the 'nature of love'. Circumstance, attraction and compatibility all have their parts to play. Chokri's lusciously filmed feature shows some of these factors can sustain bonds long or short, intimate or distanced. Driven home by compelling lead performances, you are left wondering whether we need them all to keep the candle burning

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

08/19/24

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Sophia, a 40-year-old philosophy professor, has been in a stable and conventional marriage to Xavier for a decade. From gallery openings to endless dinner parties, ten years have flown by. When Sophia meets Sylvain, a craftsman renovating the couple's new country house, Sophia's world is turned upside down. The two begin a passionate affair fueled by their irresistible physical connection. However, Sophia comes from a wealthy family of intellectuals, while Sylvain comes from a working-class family of manual workers. As they get to know each other on a deeper level, Sophia begins to question her own values after abandoning herself to her great romantic impulses. Director Monia Chokri delivers a smart and sexy romantic comedy, infusing it with spiky energy and fresh perspective, upending genre and gender conventions.

Director: Monia Chokri
Producer: Sylvain Corbeil, Nancy Grant, Nathanaël Karmitz, Elisha Karmitz
Screenwriter: Monia Chokri
Distributor: Music Box Films
Production Co: Metafilms, MK Productions
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Original Language: French
Release Date (Theaters): Jul 5, 2024, Limited
Release Date (Streaming): Aug 13, 2024
Box Office (Gross USA): $24.1K
Runtime: 1h 51m
Aspect Ratio: Flat (1.85:1)

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