Christophe Honore’s Love Songs is an enjoyable and tense romantic musical, and we were thrilled to have it screen as part of SXSW 2008. It’s an acclaimed film, but also a hard one to categorize, which is probably why a lot of the film’s American press (as it opens this weekend in New York) has focused on French actor Louis Garrel. At only 24, the “artthrob” has built a sturdy following on both sides of the Atlantic, like his actor grandfather and acclaimed director dad. For this New York Times feature from last week, Kristin Hohenadel tries to get to the bottom of what makes Louis Garrel so prolific and so… damn… sexy?
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