Still from Filmlovers! (2024), by Arnaud Desplechin.
Still from Filmlovers! (2024), by Arnaud Desplechin.
Filmlovers! (Spectateurs!)
11:00 am–12:30 pm
Directed by Arnaud Desplechin (France, 2024, 88 min.). English and French with English subtitles.
With Filmlovers!, celebrated auteur Arnaud Desplechin (My Golden Days; A Christmas Tale) returns in playful and deeply personal form, blending documentary and autofiction to create a spirited ode to the act of watching movies. Told through the eyes of his recurring alter ego, Paul Dédalus—now a devoted cinephile rather than an anthropologist—Desplechin’s latest film traces a life shaped not by making films, but by loving them.
Warm, witty, and unexpectedly moving, Filmlovers! toggles between first-person reflections, delightfully offbeat interviews with everyday moviegoers, and fictionalized scenes of Dédalus’s coming-of-age as a cinephile—from sneaking off to watch Bergman to awkwardly flirting over Coppola. Along the way, Desplechin considers what it means to be a spectator: to lose yourself in a darkened theater, to wrestle with a film long after the credits roll, and to carry those images into your life.
Both a breezy film history lesson and a tender self-portrait, Filmlovers! is a joyful and funny celebration of cinema’s enduring magic through the eyes of those who love it most.
“Revelatory … on the evidence of this fizzy little film, Desplechin’s not done growing yet.” —Variety
Wheelchair accessible
With English subtitles
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