It has gone unnoticed, but this tender dramatic comedy went through the Venice Film Festival and will make you reflect on your relationship.

It has gone almost unnoticed by the general public, but this French comedy-drama, presented in the official section of the 2024 Venice Film Festival , offers a lucid and emotional look at relationships and friendship. Directed by Emmanuel Mouret, it combines elegant humor with a subtle touch of melancholy.

Three Friends reunites Camille Cottin, Sara Forestier, and India Hair as Alice, Rebecca, and Joan, three women with very different visions of love . Joan is in a relationship, albeit without passion; Alice prioritizes stability despite not being in love; and Rebecca is secretly in a relationship with Alice's husband. Mouret explores these romantic dynamics with the lightness of comedy and the emotional depth of an intimate drama, capturing the fragility of human bonds.

With a carefully crafted staging, agile dialogue, and precise direction of actors, the French filmmaker returns to his great theme: the elusive nature of love . Those who appreciated his previous works, such as The Things We Say, the Things We Do or Chronicle of an Ephemeral Love , will recognize the same sensitivity here, enriched by a narrative interplay in which the absence of a character becomes an emotional driving force. The cast is completed by the always successful Vincent Macaigne , alongside Damien Bonnard and Grégoire Ludig.

Shot in and around Lyon and released in France in November 2024, the film relies on luminous photography and a script that avoids easy sentimentality. The city, in its most bohemian splendor, is another of the main protagonists: its characters engage in conversations in parks, museums, schools, and apartments with shelves overflowing with books.

Three Friends is, at its core, a story about decisions that test loyalty and feelings, and about how desire and reality rarely coincide. With echoes of the best Woody Allen , Mouret constructs a story that invites reflection without ceasing to smile. Although it was released in theaters on July 11, it is still playing in select theaters in Spain today.