The Names of Love
Nov 24 2010
•2h 40m
•Drama, Comedy, Romance
Bahia Benmahmoud, a free-spirited young woman, has a particular way of seeing political engagement, as she doesn't hesitate to sleep with those who don't agree with her to convert them to her cause - which is a lot of people, as all right-leaning people are concerned. Generally, it works pretty well. Until the day she meets Arthur Martin, a discreet forty-something who doesn't like taking risks. She imagines that with a name like that, he's got to be slightly fascist. But names are deceitful and appearances deceiving.
Cast
See allJacques Gamblin
Arthur Martin
Sara Forestier
Bahia Benmahmoud
Zinedine Soualem
Mohamed Benmahmoud, le père de Bahia
Jacques Boudet
Lucien Martin, le père d'Arthur
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