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C'est ça l'amour

2018 · 98 min · Director: Claire Burger, Claire Burger ★ IMDb 6.7 · 885 ratings

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Forbach, East of France, today. Mario, a man without much ambition, except for love, is back to square one after his wife left home. He now must raise on his own his two daughters going through their adolescent years while going through some sort of a teenage crisis of his own. Frida, 14-years old, blames her father for their mother's absence and she develops ambivalent feelings towards her new girlfriend. Niki, 17-years old, will soon leave home. Until then, she lives the good life. Mario can't help but lose the women he loves. Yet they must all agree to let one another go. Can accepting to lose someone eventually lead to finding oneself?

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Emotional fingerprint

C'est ça l'amour (2018) — Movie. Top emotional signals: Empathy 30%, Sadness 25%, Sympathy 20%. Source: AI estimate. Shares describe emotional signal, not percentages of people. Your experience may differ. How we measure

  1. Hope15%

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The strongest emotional signals are Empathy, Sadness, Sympathy. Genres: Comedy, Drama. AI estimate.

Is it worth watching?

Consider this title if you are looking for Empathy, Sadness and Sympathy. Its IMDb rating of 6.7/10 suggests a generally positive audience reception. For these leading emotions, its Feel Score is 66/100.

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Emotional journey

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  • Empathy
  • Sadness
  • Tension

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No dominant emotion

Dominant emotion: Sadness

Dominant emotion: Empathy

Dominant emotion: Hope

Dominant emotion: Tension

Empathy
Sadness
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Emotional journey Emotional intensity over the film’s runtime, from quieter to stronger on a fixed 0–1 scale. Hatched intervals have insufficient subtitle evidence. The table provides the values. Not enough subtitle evidence
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Dominant emotion

Intensity dips around 3 %, then peaks around 53 %, then peaks around 73 %.Ending hidden

Emotional journey
%Approximate minuteDominant emotionOverall intensityEmpathySadnessTension
2.5 %≈ 2′Sadness40 %35 %30 %20 %
7.5 %≈ 7′Sadness44 %39 %34 %31 %
12.5 %≈ 12′Sadness45 %41 %35 %36 %
17.5 %≈ 17′Empathy48 %45 %36 %37 %
22.5 %≈ 22′Empathy49 %44 %31 %35 %
27.5 %≈ 27′Hope44 %38 %23 %23 %
32.5 %≈ 32′Empathy43 %36 %23 %24 %
37.5 %≈ 37′Tension51 %44 %33 %40 %
42.5 %≈ 42′Sadness55 %50 %43 %44 %
47.5 %≈ 47′Sadness54 %50 %45 %44 %
52.5 %≈ 51′Sadness61 %55 %50 %55 %
57.5 %≈ 56′Tension61 %54 %46 %56 %
62.5 %≈ 61′Empathy55 %48 %30 %50 %
67.5 %≈ 66′Tension64 %56 %32 %48 %
72.5 %≈ 71′Empathy64 %59 %41 %32 %
77.5 %≈ 76′Hope48 %46 %34 %16 %
82.5 %≈ 81′Empathy41 %40 %26 %10 %
87.5 %≈ 86′Hope43 %36 %19 %8 %
92.5 %≈ 91′Hope43 %32 %12 %8 %
97.5 %≈ 96′Not enough subtitle evidenceNot enough subtitle evidenceNot enough subtitle evidenceNot enough subtitle evidenceNot enough subtitle evidence
Man in a hole

Rags to riches: The emotional tone rises from negative to positive.

Riches to rags: The emotional tone falls from positive to negative.

Man in a hole: The tone falls, then recovers.

Icarus: The tone rises, then falls.

Cinderella: The tone rises, falls, then rises again.

Oedipus: The tone falls, rises, then falls again.

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Cast

JL
Justine Lacroix

SH
Sarah Henochsberg

SH
Sarah Henochsberg

Niki

CR
Cécile Remy-Boutang

Armelle

CM
Célia Mayer

LD
Lorenzo Demanget

TG
Tiago Gandra

Details

Directed by
Claire Burger, Claire Burger
Written by
Claire Burger, Claire Burger
Type
Movies
Released
2018
Runtime
98 min
Country
France, Belgium
Genres
Comedy, Drama
Ratings
★ IMDb 6.7 · 885 ratings
Feels mostly
Empathy
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