Saturday, February 18, 2012 at 7:00 PM
Channelside IMAX 10
Tickets $8 (Student / Seniors $7) at TBJFF.org

A hilarious romantic comedy with a serious backbone, The Names of Love sets the age-old opposites-attract formula in a contemporary French setting, exploring serious issues about racial
and cultural identity through gentle satire. Arthur a middle-aged, conservative, bird-flu expert clashes with the much younger, free-spirited Bahia on a live radio broadcast. Bahia has a policy of sleeping with as many reactionaries as possible in order to convert them to the left but, against all odds, she falls in love with the straitlaced Arthur.. What both have in common is a tragic family history—she, the Algerian War and he, the Holocaust. This provides the context for director Michel Leclerc to satirize a number of hot-button issues including anti-Semitism, Arab-Jewish relations, immigration, and racial and cultural identity. A hit at the Cannes Film Festival.