- An anthology film consisting of three very different stories about love set in Europe and told in flashback.
- Three loosely connected love stories. The first story: Paula is a talented dancer who cannot truly live unless she dances. But has a heart condition, which means she cannot live if she does. The second story: Tommy despises his French tutor, and hates being a child. He wants to be an adult so he can do what he wants. He gets his wish, being transformed into a handsome young man for one evening, and learns about whole new side of his French tutor. Third story: Pierre Narval is trapeze artist who gave it up when his partner died doing a dangerous stunt at his bidding. He rescues Nina, a beautiful young woman, after she throws herself into the Seine, and convinces her to become his new aerial partner. Her husband had been killed by the Nazis during the war, and she blames herself. They fall in love, which is tested when Nina must perform the stunt which killed Pierre's former partner.—John Oswalt <jao@jao.com>
- Three separate stories of lost love are told, they loosely connected by each storyteller, reminiscing about that love, being aboard the same New York bound transatlantic sailing. In "The Jealous Lover", Charles Coutray, the head of a ballet company, has just mounted his latest production. After the inaugural performance, he spots a young woman alone on the stage dancing, he eventually realizing that she is the same woman who had an auspicious audition for the lead role. Her implication in leaving the world of dance is due to another love - a man - as she becomes his muse, he unaware of the more serious reason both for her collapse at the audition and her no longer pursuing dance. In "Mademoiselle", privileged eleven year old American Tommy Campbell, Jr. doesn't much like his life, currently living in an upscale hotel in Rome, and especially having to deal with his young French governess, whom he believes he doesn't need in his life, let alone having to endure the French lessons or listening to her recite what he considers "mushy" French poems. He wishes he was an adult - twenty-five - so that he could do what he wants. Meeting Hazel Pennicott, the purported American witch who lives in the hotel annex and of whom he is initially frightened, changes Tommy and his governess' lives, if only for a few hours fundamentally, but arguably emotionally for a lifetime. And in "Equilibrium", Pierre Narval, a Parisian bicycle repairman, saves a young woman from killing herself in having jumped in the Seine, she Italian Nina Burkhardt. He believes that in the process of that act, she now wants to live but doesn't know how. As such, he further believes that she is the answer to his life in returning to his previous profession as a trapeze artist, he having blamed himself for the death of his last female partner, with the question being whether they can both overcome their tortured pasts.—Huggo
- The Story of Three Loves is set on a cruise ship, and focuses on three passengers who remember past loves -- a ballet choreographer, a governess, and a former trapeze artist. The choreographer recalls the ballerina he met, loved, and lost; the governess remembers a brief, mysterious meeting with a handsome stranger; and the trapeze artist remembers ruefully how he lost his love because he repeated past mistakes.—<Lisane7@aol.com>
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By what name was The Story of Three Loves (1953) officially released in Canada in English?
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