One of France’s legendary public couples, Simone Signoret and Yves Montand, are about to be the subject of a nostalgia-soaked biopic that family members have disowned as a modernized travesty.

Moi qui t’aimais (I, who loved you) tells the story of the final years of the stormy 35-year marriage which fascinated the country from the 1950s to the 1980s.