Fiction
October 2019
TELL ME SWEET WORDS
How do we actually manage to love? How do we say “I love you”? But also, how do we say “I don’t love you anymore”? How do we get up after biting the dust? How do we keep it beautiful despite of it all?
by Cécile Hennerolles
A couple in their forties whose relationship has reached a standstill tries to figure out how things went wrong. A friendship, based on a common trauma, finds its own way to resilience. A woman, abused by her partner, decides to give love another chance by finding the strength to leave him. Grandparents have gone through life without ever letting the spark falter. Yet life will decide that something must end. A child discovers that his heart can beat very fast for a girl, and wonders if at some point it might explode. These five paths will intertwine and confront each other, each in their own way, with the intensity of love. How do we actually manage to love? How do we say “I love you”? But also, how do we say “I don’t love you anymore”? How do we get up after biting the dust?How do we keep it beautiful despite of it all?
