Le CÅ“ur des hommes
- Gérard Darmon: Jeff
- Jean -Pierre Darroussin: Manu
- Bernard Campan: Antoine
- Marc Lavoine: Alex
- Ludmila Mikaël: Francoise
- Fabienne Babe: Lili
- Zoé Félix: Elsa
- Florence Thomassin: Juliette
- Catherine Wilkening: Nanou
Action
Alex, Jeff, Manu and Antoine are friends of common football days 25 years ago. Meanwhile, they are financially and professionally successful, but also had several failures in their relationships with women. Jeff broke up 15 years ago by his wife after they undertook an abortion and now leads a relationship with a young student who is half his age. Alex, who publishes a sports newspaper with Jeff, has a variety of relationships, of which his wife does not even know, but she guessed. Manus last relationship is also failed years ago. Only Antoine leads an exemplary marriage.
The death of Father Manus is the start of a spring, in which all four her life, in which they had comfortably furnished, need to rethink. Antoine's wife confesses to him that she had a one-time fling. Although she insists, still intimately to love him, he can no longer live with her and she leaves. The quiet Manu meets a pretty freaky woman and begins to develop Lost in a Relationship believed feelings. Alex is tired of his affair with a friend and ended it. He tears her together with his wife, without wanting to, of course waive the small side jumps in the office. Jeff, who still refuses to speak to his wife, begins after the wedding their daughter slowly approach her. At the same time he decides his shares in the company to Alex to sell and retire from professional life. He buys a plot of land in the countryside, where he moved with his girlfriend. When meet the friends there in the summer, also appears Antoine's wife and finally it comes to reconciliation.
Awards
Marc Esposito received a nomination at the 2003 Montreal World Film Festival for the " Grand Prix of Ameriques " Marc Lavoine 2004 for a César Award as " Best Supporting Actor ".
Criticism
" The hearts of the men is one of those French feel-good movies after their examination, one must leave the cinema just in a good mood .... Marc Esposito did a humorous debut film, which actually can only come from France. Worn is the film by the excellent match its main characters. You simply can not do otherwise than the quartet, despite its quirks but feel sympathetic. " ( Kinozeit.de )
Rolf- Ruediger Hamacher praises the actors, who previously were allowed to play only minor roles, but really show off here. " While the friends are at the center, Esposito lets the women do not degenerate into keyword - givers the contrary. They and their strengths ultimately bring the men to realize that love is the most important thing in life .... A look at the heart of men is an adult, touched in his sad and melancholic moments, without being sentimental, and leaves without gloating about their shortcomings smile. " ( filmdienst 08 /2004)
Note
Gérard Darmon and Marc Lavoine had been seen in a film together in 2002, but had in Neil Jordan's The Good Thief no joint appearance.