They say that time heals all wounds, but sometimes love leaves a scar that can’t be fully mended. And that seems to be the thrust of the upcoming “The History Of Love,” a drama (touched with comedy) where passion meets tragedy, and only decades later finds a chance for some closure.
Directed by Radu Mihaileanu (“The Concert“), and starring Gemma Arterton, Elliott Gould, Derek Jacobi, and Sophie Nelisse (“The Book Thief“), and based on the novel by Nicole Krauss, the story follows a Polish Jewish immigrant who has long been nursing the pain of losing the great love his life, Alma, after her family emigrated to the United States during World War II. Here’s the book synopsis:
Leo Gursky taps his radiator each evening to let his upstairs neighbor know he’s still alive. But it wasn’t always like this: in the Polish village of his youth, he fell in love and wrote a book. . . . Sixty years later and half a world away, fourteen-year-old Alma, who was named after a character in that book, undertakes an adventure to find her namesake and save her family.
No release dates yet for the movie, but I’d wager we’ll see it somewhere on the fall festival circuit.