Director: Emmanuel Mouret
Emmanuel Mouret's 2024 ensemble piece follows three women whose friendship becomes a mirror for how quietly people can misread the people closest to them.
What is Three Friends about?
At the center of the story sits Joan, who has quietly fallen out of love with her partner Victor and dreads the moment she'll have to admit it. Her closest friend Alice offers steady reassurance, insisting her own low-key relationship with Eric works fine without passion, unaware that Eric has been seeing their mutual friend Rebecca behind her back. Once Joan finally works up the nerve to end things with Victor, he vanishes, and the fallout ripples through all three women's friendships and romances, forcing each of them to reconsider what honesty actually costs.
Cast & crew
Camille Cottin, Sara Forestier and India Hair anchor the trio at the film's core, with Damien Bonnard, Gregoire Ludig, Vincent Macaigne, Eric Caravaca and Mathieu Metral rounding out the men orbiting their lives. Mouret, who also wrote the script, is known for dialogue-driven relationship dramas, and the ensemble here leans into that rhythm rather than big dramatic swings.
Context & significance
Three Friends arrived in 2024 as part of a wave of French relationship comedies that trade broad jokes for close observation, closer in spirit to a stage play than a farce despite its comic touches. Mouret has built a career on this register, and the film's mix of drama and comedy sits comfortably alongside his earlier work, following characters who talk their way into trouble rather than stumbling into it. Running 117 minutes, it gives its overlapping storylines room to breathe without rushing toward a tidy resolution.
Where & how to watch
Three Friends streams on K-Time with Persian dubbing and Persian subtitles, so it's easy to follow the film's dialogue-heavy scenes in Farsi. The page itself is free to browse; watching the film requires only a quick K-Time account login, and the interface is built with the Persian-speaking diaspora audience in mind.