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Haven't seen A trois, on y va yet but saw the director's latest, Cher Lea, a day in the life film which also stars Demoustier, and man, can we get a moratorium on unappealing middle aged dicks being irresistible to women yet or what? I don't care that Demoustier has broken up with the dick, that still means she was into him beforehand (and dude still sleeps with her one last time, of course). There's a moment in this movie where Gregory Montel literally stalks his ex Demoustier so hard that he breaks into her house while she's with another man to spy harder on her and it's hard to think of a stupider screenplay contrivance. However, I loved one of the supporting characters, a softspoken and sweet bearded bartender who gradually becomes friends with the main character over the day. All I could think of was how much I'd have rather spent the movie with him as the primary focus instead of this dickbag

The film does have one decent punchline related to the titular love letter Montel spends the whole movie writing

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Where the bartender thinks it's so beautiful that he photocopies it in secret, then asks a female co-worker what she thought and she's like "Yeah, I read it, it wasn't that good" -- we can follow her instead too!