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The Names of Love (2010)

Bahia Benmahmoud, a free-spirited young woman, has a particular way of seeing political engagement, as she doesn't hesitate to sleep with those who don't agree with her to convert them to her cause - which is a lot of people, as all right-leaning people are concerned. Generally, it works pretty well. Until the day she meets Arthur Martin, a discreet forty-something who doesn't like taking risks. She imagines that with a name like that, he's got to be slightly fascist. But names are deceitful and appearances deceiving.

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Top billed cast

Jacques GamblinArthur Martin
Sara ForestierBahia Benmahmoud
Zinedine SoualemMohamed Benmahmoud, le père de Bahia
Jacques BoudetLucien Martin, le père d'Arthur
Carole FranckCécile Benhmamoud, la mère de Bahia
Michèle MorettiAnnette Martin, la mère d'Arthur
Julia Vaidis-BogardAnnette à 30 ans
Nabil MassadNassim
Zakariya GouramHassan Hassini
Adrien StocletArthur Martin adolescent

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