Love Is Better Than Life

Jan 19, 2022

1h 55m

★ 5.3

Overview

Upon their release from prison twenty years earlier, Gérard, Ary and Philippe asked themselves if honesty was not the best racket of them all. Today, they are inseparable and scrupulously above board. But Gérard learns he is terminally ill. Their friend’s days being numbered, Ary and Philippe want to offer him one last love story… because, as Gérard likes to say : love is better than life.

Genres

Comedy

Romance

Music

Production Companies

Les Films 13

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Cast

Sandrine Massaro

Sandrine Bonnaire

Gérard Prat

Gérard Darmon

Philippe

Philippe Lellouche

Ary

Ary Abittan

Kev Prat

Kev Adams

Elsa

Elsa Zylberstein

Béa, the devil's lawyer

Béatrice Dalle

Clémentine, the cop

Clémentine Célarié

Robert Prat

Robert Hossein

Olivier, the cop

Olivier Rabourdin

Marianne Denicourt

Antoine Duléry

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