did you know that a sequel was released in 2017?

[Mis à jour le 11 décembre 2022 à 20h40] We know that Christmas approach when Love Actually appears in the TV program. The cult romantic comedy by Richard Curtis is broadcast on TF1 this Sunday, December 11 from 9:10 p.m. This choral film with the jewel of British cinema in the cast looks back at different love stories that are more or less long, more or less happy, and more or less romantic. The feature film quickly established itself as a classic of the genre! If the film is very well known, did you know that a quick sequel was released in 2017?

Entitled Red Nose Day Actually, this short film serves both as a charity event to support Red Nose day, the equivalent of the English telethon, but also as a sequel to the romantic comedy released thirteen years earlier. The opportunity to discover what has become of the characters of Love Actually 13 years later. We find in particular the actors Hugh Grant, Liam Neeson, Colin Firth, Andrew Lincoln, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Keira Knightley, Martine McCutcheon, Bill Nighy, Thomas Sangster and Rowan Atkinson. Emma Thompson is absent, the actor playing her husband Alan Rickman having died in 2016. Laura Linney could not take part in this short film either. Red Nose Day Actually is not available for streaming, as it only aired on BBC One on March 24, 2017.

Synopsis – A Prime Minister (Hugh Grant) secretly in love with his charming collaborator, a writer (Colin Firth) cheated on by his girlfriend and who falls in love with a Portuguese woman to the point of learning her language, a rock-star on the comeback who promotes her latest single… All these characters and many more cross paths at Juliet’s wedding (Keira Knightley) and Peter, or on a doorstep, and each of them will illustrate the vagaries of love life in their own way. Betrayals, failures, brotherly love, shy relationships or inflamed passions, men and women in search of love follow each other but are not alike.