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synopsis
A love story about people separated by time and place but connected in profound and mysterious ways. The film chronicles the parallel fates of Jacqueline, a young mother with a disabled son in 1960s Paris, and Antoine, a recently-divorced, successful DJ in present day Montréal. What binds the two stories together is love - euphoric, obsessive, tragic, youthful, timeless love. «C.R.A.Z.Y. had set a challenge that CAFÉ DE FLORE has managed to meet, with the difference that the latter film explores in greater depth the realm of fantasy, confronting new themes [...] C.R.A.Z.Y. literally gave me the wings to fly up high, to push me to explore unknown territories. CAFÉ DE FLORE is the fruit of this flight I took». (Jean-Marc Vallée)


Six years after the screening of CRAZY in Venice, and just after his first English language film about THE YOUNG VICTORIA, Jean-Marc Vallée returns to Montréal by way of Paris. In CAFÉ DE FLORE, which takes place in 1969 Paris and 2011 Montréal’s Mont Royal, the Québécois film director explores the themes of love, both unconditional and ephemeral. In 1969, Vanessa Paradis plays the dedicated mother of a Down syndrome child while in 2011 first time actor Kevin Parent plays a happy father, torn between his second wife and first love. As always, music plays an important part of Vallée’s vision, all the more so as his main protagonist is a DJ. Vallée warned that CAFÉ DE FLORE was even “crazier” than CRAZY, so now you know. (Agnès C. Poirier).

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