The year is 2014 in freshman director Alice Douard’s lightly comic drama “Love Letters” and French couple Nadia (Monia Chokri) and Céline (Ella Rumpf) are expecting their first child. Nadia is 37, so the duo have decided together that she should be the gestational parent, since, at 32, biology is somewhat more on Céline’s side, and perhaps there will be a future sibling. Perhaps they will take another trip to a Danish sperm bank. Perhaps Céline will carry this unknown theoretical child.
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