Love Lasts Three Years

Love Lasts Three Years (L'amour dure trois ans, 2011) is a French romantic comedy you can watch online on iFILM. Society columnist Marc Marronnier has just been dumped — his wife called him immature and left for a fashionable novelist. Bruised and bitter, he pours the heartbreak into a venomous little book arguing that no passion outlives three years: one to adore, one to settle, one to grow bored.

He publishes it under a pen name, and the book becomes an unlikely hit. Then his own theory blows up in his face when Marc falls hard for Alice, the wife of his cousin. Louise Bourgoin plays the woman who makes a confirmed cynic forget his own rules, while Gaspard Proust gives Marc a quick tongue that barely hides his fear of getting burned again. The wit is sharp, Parisian and aimed straight at wounded vanity.

Behind the camera is Frédéric Beigbeder, the writer who adapted his own autobiographical novel and was clearly settling a few scores with his own marriages. It's light, mean and unexpectedly tender — a film for anyone who has quietly kept count of the months. Stream Love Lasts Three Years (2011) online on iFILM.