'Lovers' ('Amants'): Film Review | Venice 2020
A good ol' fashioned doomed romance replete with eye-popping exotic locations, a traffic-stopping cast, lavish wines, great catering, guns, drugs, sex and lies, French actress turned director Nicole Garcia’s latest effort, Lovers (Amants), delivers the genre’s essential items in a slick film noir throwback carried by a trio of strong performances. Starring Pierre Niney (Yves Saint Laurent), Stacy Martin (Vox Lux) and Benoît Magimel (An Easy Girl), all in top form here, this is the kind of dark and fatalistic love story that heads where you expect it to but remains altogether engrossing, even if some of its plot machinations seem far-fetched and the third act unravels a tad too much.