[marron]Summary[/marron]

Xavier Dolan´s film Heartbeats (2010) deals with the subject of love and desire under their different forms. There, along with the statements of some young people about their romantic experiences, he recreates the typical story of two friends who fall in love with the same person in a contemporary code. The main purpose of this work is to analyze some aspects of love-madness which are tackled in this film in the light of the reflections on the same subject by some philosophers: Roland Barthes, Alain Badiou and, above all, Plato with his description on the power of Erôs and his conception of what philosophy is.

[marron]Keywords:[/marron] Love | Plato | Heartbeats | Barthes