Up for Love

2016 French film
  • 25 April 2016 (2016-04-25) (COLCOA)
  • 4 May 2016 (2016-05-04) (France & Belgium)
Running time
98 minutesCountriesFrance
BelgiumLanguageFrenchBudget$14.2 million [1]Box office$8.3 million[2]

Up for Love (original title: Un homme à la hauteur) is a 2016 Franco-Belgian romantic comedy film directed by Laurent Tirard and starring Jean Dujardin and Virginie Efira. The film is a remake of the 2013 Argentine film Corazón de León.[3][4][5]

Plot

Diane is a lawyer who went through a divorce a few years ago. After losing her phone, she receives a call from Alexandre, a funny and charming man who found the phone and intends to return it. As the conversation goes on, the two hit it off and decide to arrange a date. Diane heads for the meeting with great expectations only to realise Alexandre is very short. Nonetheless, she tries to overcome her prejudices.

Cast

  • Jean Dujardin as Alexandre
  • Virginie Efira as Diane
  • Cédric Kahn as Bruno
  • Stéphanie Papanian as Coralie
  • César Domboy as Benji
  • Edmonde Franchi as Monique
  • Manöelle Gaillard as Nicole
  • Bruno Gomila as Philippe
  • Myriam Tekaïa as Stéphanie
  • François-Dominique Blin as Sébastien

Reception

On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, which categorizes reviews only as positive or negative, 39% of 36 reviews are positive.[6]

References

  1. ^ https://www.jpbox-office.com/fichfilm.php?id=15797
  2. ^ "Un homme à la hauteur (Up for Love)". Boxofficemojo.com. Retrieved 1 June 2019.
  3. ^ "Berlin: Gaumont is 'Up for Love' With Jean Dujardin (EXCLUSIVE)". Variety.
  4. ^ ""Un homme à la hauteur" : pour Virginie Efira et Jean Dujardin, ce n'est pas la taille qui compte". Le Parisien.
  5. ^ "Virginie Efira : "Un homme à la hauteur" montre "à quel point on n'arrive pas totalement à être libre"". RTL.
  6. ^ "Up for Loce". Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved 22 October 2021.

External links

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Films directed by Laurent Tirard
  • The Story of My Life (2004)
  • Molière (2007)
  • Little Nicholas (2009)
  • Asterix and Obelix: God Save Britannia (2012)
  • Nicholas on Holiday (2014)
  • Up for Love (2016)
  • Return of the Hero (2018)
  • The Speech (2020)