It’s back to business for the duo composed of Ann Sirot and Raphaël Balboni, who are currently shooting (Ex)perience of Love [+leggi anche:
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Last year saw the release of their first feature film, Madly in Life [+leggi anche:
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This, then, will be Sirot and Balboni’s first feature film produced in a more traditional context, though the pair will retain their usual approach, largely based around in-depth rehearsals with actors and actresses during the script-writing process.

(Ex)perience of Love follows the trajectory of Rémy and Sandra who can’t have children on account of a strange illness: "Past Lovers Syndrome". There’s only one way to recover from it: they must spend one last night with each of their exes.

Sirot and Balboni are clearly looking to explore the notion of the couple, but they’re also investigating family, what it is that unites us, what makes us a legitimate couple, what role does parenthood or faithfulness play when it comes to falling in love?

To embark upon this examination of the modern-day couple, which we expect to be playful and imaginative, they’ve surrounded themselves with a sizeable group of actors and actresses notably hailing from Belgium. Specifically, they’ve reunited with Lucie Debay (one of the heroines of Madly in Life whom we’ll soon be seeing in Thibaut Segouin’s Une comédie romantique) who’ll be playing Sandra, and Lazare Gousseau (discovered in Baden Baden [+leggi anche:
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Acting alongside them, on the merry-go-round of exes, we’ll find Hervé Piron (seen in Emma Peeters [+leggi anche:
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Much like Madly in Life and their most recent short films, (Ex)perience of Love is produced by Julie Esparbes on behalf of Hélicotronc (whose most recent feature film to date, Emmanuelle Nicot’s Dalva [+leggi anche:
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