Sign In Sign Up Where to Watch Details Description Based on a true story, the impossible love between a prison director and one of its female inmates. Down by Love is a 2016 drama with a runtime of 1 hour and 50 minutes. It has received moderate reviews from critics and viewers, who have given it an IMDb score of Where to Watch Down by Love Down by Love is available to watch, stream, download and buy on demand at Google Play. Some platforms allow you to rent Down by Love for a limited time or purchase the movie and download it to your device. Genres Cast Adèle ExarchopoulosGuillaume GallienneStéphanie Cléau Director Release Date 2016 MPAA Rating PG Runtime 1 hr 50 min Language French IMDB Rating 2,138 Stream Movies Like Down by Love Also starring Adèle Exarchopoulos Also starring Guillaume Gallienne Watch movies on Apple TV+

"Down by Love" is one of those movies where the one or two-line plot description on IMDB tells you everything that happens in the movie. It holds no surprises case you missed that description, the movie is about a "forbidden love affair" between a married warden and a new arrival at his prison, a sultry, enigmatic young woman played by "Blue is the Warmest Colour"'s Adele you know where this is going right from the first frame they're going to start having sex, the man will fall in love/become obsessed, he will take bigger risks to see the girl, he'll be found movie is not a romance, as it might have been, and nor is it an erotic thriller, as it also easily could have been. Therefore with this material we are left only with drama, which indicates the movie will have to play it straight, showing the love affair as a staid sequence of events with a conclusion it doesn't even pretend we can't see coming. It features some rather frank sex scenes, but eroticism is clearly not on the cards for such a serious movie, and these are nothing out of the ordinary for a French only thing I didn't expect from "Down by Love" came after I had finished watching it. I went on IMDB to write this review, and I saw that the movie is based on a true story. I never would have guessed that the completely rote plot developments seems to come out of an outline from "Screenwriting for Dummies". If it's really "based on a true story", the filmmakers needed to study that story more closely. They may have come across details that could have set it will finish by saying that there was one example of this lack of truth that I found particularly objectionable, and that is the Adele Exarchopolous character. This characterisation is indeed the stuff of erotic thrillers or softcore porn. She is only present to arouse the warden. We see barely anything of her personality, but plenty of her body; the movie doesn't even explain why she's in jail in the first place! And yet this is based on a true story? Did they just skip the bits with her in it?This is all the more obvious when one considers that the main actor really doesn't evince much sympathy, and nor does his character generate much interest. It's the female lead that gets us thinking, but she seems to be playing a male fantasy, rather than just inspiring one in the the filmmakers were more sympathetic to the warden's story than they wanted us to know?

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