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5 to 7 (2014)

5 to 7 poster
Directed by
Victor Levin
Genre
melodrama, romantic comedy film
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 37m
Rated
R
Rating
7.1 of 10 from 414 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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A young aspiring writer starts a relationship with a married French woman in New York. They meet only between five and seven in the evening as part of her open marriage agreement.

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What happens

5 to 7 is a 2014 American romantic comedy-drama film written and directed by Victor Levin and starring Anton Yelchin, Bérénice Marlohe, Olivia Thirlby, Lambert Wilson, Frank Langella, and Glenn Close. Yelchin plays Brian, a 24-year-old writer who has an affair with a 33-year-old married French woman, Arielle (Marlohe). Arielle and her middle-aged husband, Valéry (Wilson), have an agreement allowing them to have extramarital affairs as long as they are confined to the hours between 5 and 7 p.m, borrowed from the French cinq à sept. The film's premise was inspired by a French couple in an open marriage whom Levin met in the 1980s. Though he completed the film's first draft in 2007, the project remained in development for seven further years due to casting issues. Diane Kruger was initially cast as Arielle but was replaced by Marlohe. Filming began in May 2013 in New York City and mainly took place on the Upper East Side of Manhattan. 5 to 7 premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival on April 19, 2014. It was also screened at the 2014 Traverse City Film Festival, where it won the Audience Award for Best American Film. The film was released theatrically in the United States on April 3, 2015, by IFC Films. It grossed $674,579 at the worldwide box office and received mixed reviews from critics. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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