Third Wedding (2018)

Original title

Troisièmes Noces

Directed by

David Lambert

Genre

comedy drama, LGBTQ-related film

Country

Luxembourg, Belgium, Canada

Runtime

1h 38m

Rating

5.5 of 10 from 4 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A gay man whose husband has died enters a fake marriage with a Congolese immigrant so she can stay in the country. As they try to fool the authorities, they unexpectedly develop genuine feelings for each other.

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What happens

Third Wedding (French: Troisièmes noces) is a comedy-drama film, directed by David Lambert and released in 2018. A coproduction of companies from Belgium, Canada and Luxembourg, the film stars Bouli Lanners as Martin, a gay man grieving the recent death of his husband; in need of money to keep the house they shared, he decides to enter a marriage of convenience with Congolese immigrant Tamara (Rachel Mwanza) so that she can stay in the country, with the two unexpectedly falling into a sort of love as they try to convince the authorities that their relationship is real. The cast also includes Jean-Luc Couchard, Virginie Hocq, Eric Kabongo, Nele Kestens, Catarina Reverendo, Lionël Ruzindana, Jean-Benoît Ugeux, Benoit Moureaux, André Pasquasy and Denis Simonetta. The film was adapted from Tom Lanoye's 2006 novel Het derde huwelijk. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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