Hovering Love

1. Does love have weight?
Can we "freeze" our emotions, and then release them again at the moment we need that feeling in life, or at a more appropriate time?
In this book, the author discusses such a philosophy of love using a previously unprecedented form of expression—paper theater.

2. Winner of the Special Jury Award at the 2018 Angoulême International Comics Festival. Without the continuous movements of actors on a stage or real melodies, author Marion Fayolle delivers an experimental masterpiece that gives all readers a theatrical experience as if they were there in person.

3. In this book, the author transcends her female identity, using a male perspective to tell a love story more real than life itself, through rhythmic, "aria-like" theatrical images. Although the dialogues in the book are full of banter, it is precisely within these slightly ironic images and words that the true appearance of men and women in love, in each other's eyes, is fully revealed.

4. The author largely eschews narration and dialogue, primarily using characters' physical expressions to convey themselves, much like dancers. Through their poses, silhouettes, and actions, the story unfolds. Many recurring character poses and detailed scene designs create the atmosphere of a stage musical, where characters' movements and displacements become surreal dance steps, and the story's progression, like a song, loops and lingers. The author achieves a shift in narrative space by interweaving modern "dance steps" with classical rhyming ballads, allowing readers to experience a temporary detachment and disengagement from the story's characters and events.

This is a modern French graphic novel, rich in rhythm, humor, and banter, depicting a man in love. The protagonist is a charming married man who finds it difficult to suppress his attention, desire to please, and craving for women. However, whenever an affair is about to materialize, he always chooses to stop abruptly, ending the relationship at the irresistible moment of mutual attraction. In this way, he avoids being hurt in more intimate relationships and protects the beauty of platonic love from diminishing due to closer proximity.

He freezes all unfulfilled relationships at their perfect moments, carefully storing them in a secret chamber within his heart, and constantly revisiting these suspended loves with various women. Until one day, his marriage shatters, and in his grief and despair, he decides to unfreeze these emotions, hoping to find lost happiness once again…