Down by Love
Film poster
Éperdument
Directed by	Pierre Godeau
Screenplay by	Pierre Godeau Florent Gonçalves Catherine Siguret
Based on	Défense d'aimer by Florent Gonçalves
Produced by	Philippe Godeau Cyril Colbeau-Justin Jean-Baptiste Dupont Nathalie Gastaldo
Starring	Guillaume Gallienne Adèle Exarchopoulos
Cinematography	Muriel Cravatte
Edited by	Hervé de Luze
Music by	Robin Coudert
Production companies	Pan-Européenne StudioCanal France 2 Cinéma LGM Productions Appaloosa Distribution Don't Be Shy Productions Versus Production
Distributed by	StudioCanal
Release dates	25 February 2016 (2016-02-25) (Paris premiere) 2 March 2016 (2016-03-02) (France)
Running time	110 minutes
Country	France
Language	French
Box office	$50,828[1]

Down by Love (French: Éperdument) is a 2016 French drama film directed by Pierre Godeau.

Plot

Based on the life of Sorour Arbabzadeh and Florent Goncalves in 2010, a young woman, Anna Amari, is detained at a prison for women in Versailles, where she encounters Jean Firmino, the prison director. She is sentenced to nine years in prison and they begin an illegal relationship which brings the attention of the authorities onto them.

Cast

Critical response

On review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, Down by Love has an approval rating of 33%, based on 6 reviews, with an average rating of 4.7/10.^[2]