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What Love Means

Country: France, Language: French, 200 mins

Original Title

Sa Raison d'etre
  • Director: Renaud Bertrand
  • Writer: Pascal Fontanille; Veronique Lecharpy
  • Producer: Anne Leduc; Christophe Louis

CGiii Comment

The movie, for the most part, charts the AIDS epidemic in France from 1980 – present through the microcosm of a family, but particularly through their gay son Nicolas, who narrates the story.


There was a trailer...but, it has since disappeared.

Cast & Characters

Nicolas Gob as Bruno;
Michael Cohen as Nicolas;
Clementine Celarie as Helene;
Nozha Khouadra as Nadia;
Berenice Bejo as Fabienne;
Valerie Donzelli as Nathalie;
Valerie Mairesse as Mado;
Sophie Quinton as Isabelle;
Carlo Brandt as Alain Guichard;
Philippe Lefebvre as Pierre Bresson;
Cyril Descours as Jerome;
Alexandra Mercouroff as Gabrielle;
Sophie De La Rochefoucauld as Mme Fremond;
Isabelle Ferron as Muriel Blondel;
Jean Dell as Michel