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Romantics Anonymous (Les Émotifs anonymes, 2010) is a French romantic comedy you can watch online on iFILM. Shy chocolate-factory owner Jean-René hires Angélique, a gifted chocolate maker, and the two are drawn together by a shared love of fine cocoa — and a shared affliction: both are cripplingly bashful.
Each of them is locked inside their own fears. Angélique attends a support group for the painfully sensitive, while Jean-René breaks into a cold sweat at the thought of a dinner date and rehearses every conversation with his therapist. The attraction is plain to everyone, themselves included, yet making the first move feels like scaling a mountain. Benoît Poelvoorde and Isabelle Carré pitch the awkwardness so precisely that you laugh and root for them at once.
Director Jean-Pierre Améris keeps this Belgian-French film short and feather-light at just eighty minutes. It's an ideal pick for a quiet evening if you're tired of loud rom-coms and enjoy charming European cinema about timid, self-doubting souls. Stream Romantics Anonymous (2010) online on iFILM.
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