L’amour ouf, known in English as Beating Hearts, is a romantic drama film directed by Gilles Lellouche from a screenplay he co-wrote with Audrey Diwan, Ahmed Hamidi and Julien Lambroschini, based on the 1997 Irish novel Jackie Loves Johnser OK? by Neville Thompson. The Franco-Belgian coproduction starring François Civil and Adèle Exarchopoulos premiered at the Festival de Cannes:
1980s. Northern France.
Jackie and Clotaire grow up in the same town, at the same high school, around the same harbour docks. She studies, he bunks off. Then their paths cross and they fall madly in love. Life tries its best to keep them apart, but they are like two halves of the same beating heart…
The main typeface used for the film’s promotion is ITC Serif Gothic. The logo is set in two lines of its Black weight. ITC Serif Gothic also appears in other weights, in the teaser and trailer videos, on posters, and for the soundtrack album. The posters were designed by Le Cercle Noir for Silenzio Communication, with photography by Cedric Bertrand.