A clip from Christophe Honoré's Les Bien-aimés (The Beloved) has been released, a little over two weeks before its premiere at the closing ceremony of the Cannes Film Festival. The French movie will screen following the awards ceremony on Sunday, May 22.  Starring Catherine Deneuve, Ludivine Sagnier, Chiara Mastroianni, Milos Forman, Louis Garrel, Michel Delpech and Paul Schneider, the musical comedy draws us “into Prague of the sixties, London of the '80s, the world of Sept. 11 and Paris of today in a singular, melancholy and romantic work of art,” according to the film fest's press release.

Hit the jump for the synopsis and to watch Deneuve and her daughter Chiara (daughter of late Italian legend Marcello Mastroianni) singing “Une fille légère”, written by Alex Beaupain.  Les Bien-aimés will be Honoré's second film to screen at Cannes, although it will be out-of-competition. Les Chansons d’amour, which had also starred Chiara Mastroianni, Sagnier and Garrel, competed at the fest in 2007.

Here's the official synopsis:

From Paris in the Sixties to London in the 2000s, Madeleine and her daughter Véra come and go in the lives of the men that they move. But living lighthearted love becomes more difficult as the years go by. How do you resist the force of passing time and which attacks our deepest sentiments?

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