Fifteen years have passed since Shauna (Fanny Ardant) and Pierre (Melvil Poupaud) briefly met at the hospital where he works as a doctor. Even back then, they felt drawn to one another. When they meet again now, the circumstances actually seem to stand in the way of this “love at second sight”: Shauna is now 70 years old and has essentially given up on sex and romance. Pierre leads a happy family life and deeply cherishes his wife (Cécile de France). And yet he can’t get Shauna—who is 25 years his senior—out of his head—and the attractive architect, too, cannot resist her desire and her feelings for Pierre... With “Young at Heart,” Carine Tardieu has created an unusually mature love drama that questions social conventions without turning it into a programmatic statement. Instead, her film explores the fragility of human relationships and the interplay of desire, responsibility, and transience. The direction remains pleasantly understated and avoids melodramatic excesses. In particular, the outstanding actors Fanny Ardant and Melvil Poupaud lend their characters great emotional authenticity and make it clear that love is bound neither by age nor by societal expectations.