LOVE ME TENDER
FRANCE – 2025 – 137′

Direction: Anna Cazenave Cambet
Screenplay: Anna Cazenave Cambet based on the novel of the same name by Constante Debré
Cinematography: Kristy Baboul
Editing: Joris Laquittant
Original score: Maxence Dussère
Costumes: Vanessa Deutsch
Cast: Vicky Krieps (Clémence), Monia Chokri (Sarah), Antoine Reinartz (Laurent), Viggo Ferreira-Redier (Paul), Féodor Atkine (Clémence’s father), Aurélia Petit (mediation judge), Ji-Min Park (Victoire), Oumnia Hanader (Romane), Tallulah Cassavetti (Elisabeth), Manuel Vallade (Yann), Julien De Saint-Jean (Léo)
Producers: Raphaëlle Delauche, Nicolas Sanfaute
Production: Novoprod, France 2 Cinéma
World Sales: Be for Films

synopsis
At the end of the summer, Clémence confesses to her ex-husband that she has had several affairs with other women. Her life is turned upside down when he files a lawsuit to obtain custody of her son. Thus begins a long battle lasting several years in which Clémence will fight to defend her right to be a mother and a woman, free to make her own choices.

director’s statement
“I didn’t want to turn this adaptation into yet another film revolving around the character’s homosexuality. I wanted to talk about a woman and to affirm that the fact she’s gay doesn’t make what she’s going through any less universal. It was really important that viewers could connect with her, whether they were elderly men, brothers, young people, straight people, gay people, etc., to achieve a level of universality, and I think the subject-matter of children allows for this. What happens to her is a kind of nightmare which she sinks deeper and deeper into.”

awards and festivals
2025 Festival di Cannes – Un Certain Regard
2025 Rio de Janeiro IFF – Felix Awards: Special Jury Prize
2026 European Film Awards: nominated in shortlist