Anaïs In Love Review: French Rom-Com Is Not Afraid To Embrace The Mess
The lively French romantic comedy Anaïs in Love introduces a character who is as magnetic as she is infuriating in a film that captures the essence of the genre. The romantic comedy has seen a resurgence as of late thanks, in part, to streamers' willingness to produce them in droves regardless of quality. Fortunately, Anaïs in Love rises above to become almost a companion piece to one of the best movies of 2021, The Worst Person in the World. Filled with passion and a performance from Anaïs Demoustier that is equal parts energetic and blisteringly self-aware, Anaïs in Love is hilarious and romantic even if its resolution ultimately falters.
Anaïs is neurotic, impulsive, perpetually late, and always running, but it's because of this that it seems like everyone else is merely trying to catch up with her. Attempting to finish a thesis on 17th-century descriptions of passion that's about as late as her last few months of rent, Anaïs flings herself from moment to moment with disheveled grace. When she meets Daniel (Denis Podalydès), an older man with whom she has an affair, she eventually finds herself more infatuated with his writer wife Emilie (Valeria Bruni Tedeschi). While coping with the resurgence of her mother's illness, Anaïs finds herself deeply attracted to Emilie and begins openly pursuing her despite her former lover's misgivings.
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Anaïs overshares, an obvious product of a generation that found themselves caught at the rise of the internet age. At one point, while showing tourists around her apartment that she is letting them rent, she explains her romantic life to them in French even though they don't speak a word of her native
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