Un plus une


Un plus une is a 2015 French romantic comedy film directed by Claude Lelouch and starring Jean Dujardin, Elsa Zylberstein, Christopher Lambert and Alice Pol. It was shown in the Special Presentations section of the 2015 Toronto International Film Festival.
Through a range of settings, such as a striking sequence shot at the banks of the Ganges, the leads convey their characters’ friendship with each other but also their underlying romantic tension.

Plot

Antoine Abeilard, a famed film composer travels to India at the request of an Indian director to score a Bollywood romance. Once he lands, he tries avoiding the marriage proposal of his pianist girlfriend, and finds a distraction in Anna Hamon, wife of the French ambassador to India. She befriends Antoine at a VIP dinner with a talk of dharma. Her emotional interests compels Antoine to follow her on a “fertility pilgrimage.” She and her husband, a man she seemingly only admires without passion, have been trying to conceive a child; Anna is hopeful that participating in ritual Hindu gatherings will help her. Antoine follows Anna to find a cure for his troubling headaches, though he is equally enamored by being with Anna.
Antoine travels with Anna to the holy city of Varanasi, and then south to Amritapuri to receive an embrace from the "hugging saint" Amma. The film captures the two performers’ first contact with the spiritual guru; their responses to her, both emotional and playful, reveal much on their respective characters.

Cast

began on 6 January 2015 and took place over a period of six weeks in India, in cities including Mumbai, Varanasi and New Delhi. Certain parts of it were also filmed in Amritapuri in Kerala at the ashram of Mata Amritanandamayi.

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