Quantum Love

Quantum Love (Une rencontre, 2014) is a French romantic drama you can watch online on iFILM, directed by Lisa Azuelos. Sophie Marceau and François Cluzet play Elsa and Pierre — two people who already have full, settled lives with their respective partners. They meet at a party and the pull between them is immediate. Neither wants the complication.

They agree, separately, to leave it alone. Then fate ignores that agreement and puts them in the same room again. And again. The film is less interested in the mechanics of infidelity than in the feeling of being overtaken by something you did not choose — how the line between what actually happens and what is only imagined starts to dissolve when desire goes that deep. Azuelos keeps it intimate, just over eighty minutes, and lets Marceau and Cluzet do the heavy lifting without spelling everything out. Stream Quantum Love (2014) online on iFILM.