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The origins of Love Songs lie in pre-existent musical material: the songs written by Alex Beaupain. The characters start singing as soon as they are in a state of love because they are incapable of expressing it otherwise. The settings, such as the parents‚Äô apartments, return like a chorus, with a different tone according to what happened in the previous verse. And, as in a song in which certain instruments return or vanish while others are added on, the secondary characters give fresh impetus to the story while others are ejected from it. Ismaël walks along blindly but keeps walking in spite of everything. And then Erwann quickens his pace a little. Jeanne, on the other hand, is condemned to be immobile: she remains a fixed point. The tragedy freezes her. As for Alice, she walks alongside Ismaël, and then she turns away from his path to follow another story with this Breton guy that she meets.