The Names of Love poster
Director Michel Leclerc
Writer Michel Leclerc, Baya Kasmi

The Names of Love

Original Title: Le Nom des gens

Tagline: Make love, not war

Release Date: 2010-11-24

Duration: 100 minutes

Synopsis

Bahia Benmahmoud, a free-spirited young woman, has a particular way of seeing political engagement, as she doesn't hesitate to sleep with those who don't agree with her to convert them to her cause - which is a lot of people, as all right-leaning people are concerned. Generally, it works pretty well. Until the day she meets Arthur Martin, a discreet forty-something who doesn't like taking risks. She imagines that with a name like that, he's got to be slightly fascist. But names are deceitful and appearances deceiving.

Casting

  • Sara Forestier
    Bahia Benmahmoud
  • Zinedine Soualem
    Mohamed Benmahmoud, le père de Bahia
  • Jacques Gamblin
    Arthur Martin
  • Camille Chalons
    Une ado, la première copine d'Arthur
  • Delphine Baril
    La femme qui n'a jamais voté
  • Carole Franck
    Cécile Benhmamoud, la mère de Bahia
  • Michèle Moretti
    Annette Martin, la mère d'Arthur
  • Nabil Massad
    Nassim
  • Camille Gigot
    Arthur Martin enfant
  • Zakariya Gouram
    Hassan Hassini