Love Songs (Les Chansons d'amour)

French director Christophe Honoré ("Dans Paris") continues his tribute to the French new wave with this playful, polysexual romantic musical about love and loss and intimacy. It's a joy, from the cute songs and sudden bursts of comedy to the profound and affecting sadness of one lover (Louis Garrel) mourning the death of another while finding the strength to go on. The original songs are upbeat (if not particularly memorable), but the cast invests them with a well of often complicated emotion. Ludivine Sagnier, Chiara Mastroianni and Grégoire Leprince-Ringuet co-star. No supplements.