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'Love Songs'

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French movie musicals are an oxymoron, notwithstanding the luxuriantly camp collaborations of "Umbrellas of Cherbourg" director Jacques Demy and composer Michel Legrand back in the '60s. Christophe Honoré's flat-footed "Love Songs" does little to change that Yankee-centric impression.

Louis Garrel gives a performance of breathtaking narcissism as Ismael, a romantically elastic young Parisian...

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