Dreaming of France: The History of Love / L'Histoire de l'Amour

Judith Krauss A History of Love has been called one of the most loved novels of the decade. 

Leo Gursky taps his radiator each evening to let his upstairs neighbor know he’s still alive. But it wasn’t always like this: in the Polish village of his youth, he fell in love and wrote a book…Sixty years later and half a world away, fourteen-year-old Alma, who was named after a character in that book, undertakes an adventure to find her namesake and save her family. With virtuosic skill and soaring imaginative power, Nicole Krauss gradually draws these stories together toward a climax of "extraordinary depth and beauty" (Newsday).

The movie based on the book is being released on November 18th and it looks just as lush and sweeping as the novel, especially when you watch the trailer in French. Even the sappy teen love story is elevated by the language.

A long-lost book reappears, mysteriously connecting an old man searching for his son and a girl seeking a cure for her widowed mother's loneliness.

The film stars Gemma Arterton, Derek Jacobi, Sophie Nelisse and Elliot Gould and was filmed in Montreal, New York and Romania. As you can see from the trailers below the movie is being released in both French and English. 

Below is the French trailer, followed by the English trailer with French subtitles.

L'histoire de l'amour : bande-annonce VF by inthefame

Have you read the book? Blogged about it? I’d love to read what you have to say.

L'histoire de l'amour : bande-annonce VOST by inthefame

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