Fanfan

Fanfan (1993) — watch online on iFILM — is a French romantic comedy directed by Alexandre Jardin, adapted from his own novel. Vincent Perez and Sophie Marceau lead; Thierry Lhermitte appears in support.

Alexandre has a theory: desire dies the moment a couple sleeps together. His solution — keep Fanfan close but never cross that line. He rents her the apartment next door, sees her every day, and invents increasingly elaborate ways to spend time together without touching. He is also engaged to Laure, which he treats as entirely separate.

Jardin builds the film around a man so afraid of losing love that he architects it into an impossible shape. Marceau's Fanfan is not a patient object of someone else's theory — she's impatient, increasingly done with the arrangement, which is where the comedy lives. Watch Fanfan (1993) online on iFILM.