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Romantics Anonymous

Original title: Les émotifs anonymes
  • 20102010
  • PG-13PG-13
  • 1h 20m
IMDb RATING
6.8/10
11K
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POPULARITY
29,951
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Isabelle Carré and Benoît Poelvoorde in Romantics Anonymous (2010)
Drawn together through a shared passion for chocolate, Jean-René and Angélique fall in love, though both of them are emotionally-challenged people unable to express how they feel
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ComedyRomance
Jean-René, owner of a chocolate factory, and Angélique, a talented chocolate maker, are too shy to admit their love for each other. Will they come together thanks to their common passion?Jean-René, owner of a chocolate factory, and Angélique, a talented chocolate maker, are too shy to admit their love for each other. Will they come together thanks to their common passion?Jean-René, owner of a chocolate factory, and Angélique, a talented chocolate maker, are too shy to admit their love for each other. Will they come together thanks to their common passion?
IMDb RATING
6.8/10
11K
YOUR RATING
POPULARITY
29,951
1,440
  • See more at IMDbPro
    • Director
      • Jean-Pierre Améris
    • Writers
      • Jean-Pierre Améris
      • Philippe Blasband
    • Stars
      • Benoît Poelvoorde
      • Isabelle Carré
      • Lorella Cravotta
    Top credits
    • Director
      • Jean-Pierre Améris
    • Writers
      • Jean-Pierre Améris
      • Philippe Blasband
    • Stars
      • Benoît Poelvoorde
      • Isabelle Carré
      • Lorella Cravotta
  • See production, box office & company info
    • 36User reviews
    • 86Critic reviews
    • 69Metascore
    • Awards
      • 2 wins & 4 nominations

    Videos1

    U.K. Version
    Trailer 1:56
    U.K. Version

    Photos27

    Isabelle Carré, Benoît Poelvoorde, and Pascal Ternisien in Romantics Anonymous (2010)
    Isabelle Carré and Benoît Poelvoorde in Romantics Anonymous (2010)
    Swann Arlaud and Benoît Poelvoorde in Romantics Anonymous (2010)
    Benoît Poelvoorde in Romantics Anonymous (2010)
    Isabelle Carré in Romantics Anonymous (2010)
    Swann Arlaud, Benoît Poelvoorde, and Pierre Niney in Romantics Anonymous (2010)
    Swann Arlaud, Lorella Cravotta, Lise Lamétrie, and Pierre Niney in Romantics Anonymous (2010)
    Isabelle Carré in Romantics Anonymous (2010)
    Isabelle Carré in Romantics Anonymous (2010)
    Isabelle Carré and Benoît Poelvoorde in Romantics Anonymous (2010)
    Isabelle Carré in Romantics Anonymous (2010)
    Swann Arlaud, Lorella Cravotta, Lise Lamétrie, Benoît Poelvoorde, and Pierre Niney in Romantics Anonymous (2010)

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    Benoît Poelvoorde
    Benoît Poelvoorde
    • Jean-René Van Den Hugde
    Isabelle Carré
    Isabelle Carré
    • Angélique Delange
    Lorella Cravotta
    • Magda
    Lise Lamétrie
    • Suzanne
    Swann Arlaud
    Swann Arlaud
    • Antoine
    Pierre Niney
    Pierre Niney
    • Ludo
    Stéphan Wojtowicz
    Stéphan Wojtowicz
    • Le psychologue
    Jacques Boudet
    Jacques Boudet
    • Rémi, un émotif anonyme
    Alice Pol
    Alice Pol
    • Adèle, une émotive anonyme
    Céline Duhamel
    • Mimi, une émotive anonyme
    Philippe Fretun
    • Maxime, un émotif anonyme
    Grégoire Ludig
    Grégoire Ludig
    • Julien, un émotif anonyme
    Philippe Gaulé
    • Philippe, un émotif anonyme
    Joëlle Séchaud
    Joëlle Séchaud
    • Joëlle, une émotive anonyme
    Isabelle Gruault
    • Sylviane, une émotive anonyme
    Claude Aufaure
    • M. Mercier
    Philippe Laudenbach
    Philippe Laudenbach
    • Le président du jury du salon du chocolat
    Marie-Christine Demarest
    • Madame Legrand
    • Director
      • Jean-Pierre Améris
    • Writers
      • Jean-Pierre Améris
      • Philippe Blasband
    • All cast & crew
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    • Trivia
      According to the director in the making of on the DVD, the film has the "slowest car chase in movie history".
    • Quotes

      Angélique Delange: I'm sorry but it won't work. I love you and I know you love me. But it's a recipe for disaster. We'll get to know each other, warts and all. We'll annoy each other, stop communicating, and end up hating each other. I don't want that. We're both emotional.It's a recipe for disaster. We're not strong enough. We understand each other, only too well. We'll pull each other down like two people drowning. Our struggling will only make us sink faster.I don't want to sink. Or drown, even with you. So... we should stop now.

    • Connections
      Referenced in Movie Friends: Prashant Prabhakar (2013)
    • Soundtracks
      I Have Confidence
      (J'ai Confiance en Moi)

      Music by Richard Rodgers

      English lyrics by Richard Rodgers

      French lyrics by Henri Lemarchand

      Performed by Isabelle Carré

    User reviews36

    Review
    Top review
    8/10
    When bashful Harry meets timid Sally
    Jean-Pierre Améris, a good but somewhat overlooked French director, had hitherto specialized in harsh dramas (such as the intriguing 'Les aveux de l'innocent" (1996), in which an ordinary man declares he has committed a crime whereas he is innocent, or the profound "C'est la vie" (2001), a haunting meditation about life and death). For the first time, with "Les émotifs associés" (2010), Améris has opted for a lighter tone, ... without indulging in superficiality for all that. His new effort marks in fact an interesting evolution in Jean-Pierre Améris's way to address his subjects. At ease with the problems of others (his characters), the writer-director has now decided to examine a question that concerns his own self and to do it with optimism.

    For if there is a subject that Jean-Pierre Améris knows like the back of his hand it is hyper emotionality. A highly emotional person himself since he was a child, Améris has however been able to give a film crew orders, to guide them and to impose himself on them, a thing an overly timid creature would never dream of ever managing to do. Having now overcome his handicap (at least to some extent as he occasionally still finds it hard to make a decision or deal with strangers), the director has undertaken to share his experience with his audiences and help the victims of hyper emotionality to have a better life.

    And what better way to achieve this goal than resorting to the romantic comedy genre? For sure, provided a filmmaker avoids falling into the trap of over-sentimentality, he or she will make an audience susceptible to the attraction of one character to the other and take advantage of this feeling of empathy to instill his message in the complicit viewers. What Jean-Pierre Améris needed first was two amiable spokespersons to pass on his message and, with the help of his co-writer Philippe Blasband, he has given life to an engaging couple, consisting of Jean-René, the owner of a small chocolate factory who has never overcome his mental blocks and has remained single despite his deep love for women, and Angélique, probably the best chocolate maker alive, but who, for exactly the same reasons, has failed to make a name for herself and to find the genial soul. Mission accomplished, as the two characters are well delineated and remarkably interpreted by Benoît Poelvoorde and Isabelle Carré.

    This established, all the suspense will lie in the fact that though Angélique and Jean-René share a common passion for chocolate and are drawn to each other, the fear of giving a bad image of themselves and of taking the first step, is a source of misunderstanding and tends to estrange them. Will there be a happy ending? Nothing is less certain...

    Through this situation and these two characters, Jean-Pierre Améris describes, with the light touch allowed by comedy, the nightmare experienced by those people who are so scared of life that they miss out on it, preferring the safety of doing nothing over the risks of taking action. And not taking action does not only bring frustration to the people concerned , it is also misleading to others. Deep inside themselves neither is Jean-René this gruff unpleasant boss nor Angélique this slightly retarded little girl. They are much better persons and deserve better. "Les émotifs anonymes" will thus recount Angélique and Jean René's desperate efforts to become a couple on the one hand and to become who they are on the other, describing the various means they use to this end (consulting a behavioral psychologist, doing exercises to try to ACT even if the odds seem impossible, using auto suggestion, trying to touch someone, to invite a person to the restaurant, joining a mutual aid movement such as the "Emotifs Anonymes" (hence the title)...

    A useful film for the overly timid, an entertaining and charming one for the more extrovert, "Les émotifs anonymes" is played to perfection by the ever delightful and fresh Isabelle Carré and cast- against-type Benoît Poelvoorde. There is such a chemistry between the two on-screen partners that you never doubt for a single moment that the princess can be infatuated with a bullfrog!

    A comedy with a heart, "Les émotifs anonymes" contains several scenes to remember : the disaster dinner at the restaurant, Jean-René singing 'Dark Eyes' to Angélique at the hotel, Jean-René's declaration of love to Angélique during an "Emotifs Anonymes" meeting.

    Don't be shy. Go and see it. Your audacity will be rewarded!
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    • Jan 11, 2011

    Details

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    • Release date
      • November 25, 2011 (United States)
    • Countries of origin
      • France
      • Belgium
    • Language
      • French
    • Also known as
      • Tình Yêu Ẩn Danh
    • Filming locations
      • Rue d'Auvergne, Lyon, Rhône, Rhône-Alpes, France
    • Production companies
      • Pan Européenne
      • StudioCanal
      • France 3 Cinéma
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    Box office

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    • Gross worldwide
      • $458,803
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    Technical specs

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    • Runtime
      1 hour 20 minutes
    • Color
      • Color
    • Sound mix
      • Dolby Digital
    • Aspect ratio
      • 2.35 : 1

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