Sophie Marceau stars in the new film de Lisa AzuelosI Love America, a comedy which is released on Prime Video this Friday, March 11, 2022.
What is I Love America about?
Lisa (Sophie Marceau) decides to change her life by leaving Paris for Los Angeles. Her children have left the family nest and her famous mother, absent all her life, has just died: Lisa therefore needs a new start!
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There she finds her best friend Luka (Djanis Bouzyani) who has made a success of his career in the United States by setting up a famous drag queens bar, but his sentimental life is as complicated as it is abundant. Luka makes it her mission to help Lisa revive her love life, which has been extinguished for too long, by creating a profile for her on a dating site. Lisa goes on awkward dates, until she meets John. But above all, she will discover the power of forgiveness, that which she must grant to the one who was her first love… her mother.
Third collaboration for Sophie Marceau and Lisa Azuelos
Available March 11 on Prime Video,
I Love America
is the last feature film by Lisa Azuelos, three years after the film My baby. But this film marks above all the third collaboration between the director and Sophie Marceau. The first time that Sophie Marceau’s path crossed that of Lisa Azuelos in the cinema was for the film LOL, whose success was immediate. It quickly becomes a kind of La Boum 2.0 for a whole generation.
The actress and the director meet for a second time for A meeting, in 2014, with François Cluzet. This time, Sophie Marceau finds Lisa Azuelos for I Love America, a funny, romantic and intimate comedy. She plays Lisa, a name that was not chosen at random.
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I Love America, a film inspired by the story of Lisa Azuelos
Beneath its airs of romantic comedy, I Love America is also autobiographical. It is her own life that Lisa Azuelos stages, filming in dotted lines a childhood that leaves her with a bitter taste. Because Lisa Azuelos is the daughter of the singer Marie Laforetwho died in 2019. Placed, then in boarding school during her childhood, she suffered cruelly from his lack of affection, before forgiving him when he died.
The film is dedicated to his parents. Her father, Judas Azuelos, died just before filming began. Lisa Azuelos does not hesitate to draw on her personal experiences and history for her films, questioning the precious relationship between mother and daughter. In My baby, the director was inspired in particular by her own life with her daughter Thaïs, who plays the main role in the film. The true story of a mother who lets her daughter go to Canada after 18 years together.
Lisa Azuelos sees I Love America as a sequel to her trilogy consisting of LOL, A Meeting and My Baby.
I Love America is available on Amazon Prime Video.
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