Editing 5x2 (section)

==Plot==
A young married couple, Gilles and Marion, are in a lawyer's office.  The lawyer reads out the formal terms of their separation.  Then, they book a hotel room together.<ref name="Time">{{cite news|url=http://www.timeout.com/film/reviews/81640/5-x-2.html|title=5&nbsp;×&nbsp;2 Review|date=16 March 2005|publisher=[[Time Out (company)|Time Out]]|access-date=15 October 2009}}</ref> We then go back in time, with the second chapter showing a tense dinner party, at which Gilles appears to admit to infidelity.  The third chapter shows their son's birth, which Gilles missed by several hours, leaving Marion in the hospital with only her parents.  The fourth chapter shows their wedding day.  The final chapter takes place at an Italian beach resort, where their relationship began.<ref name="NYT">{{cite news|url=https://movies.nytimes.com/2005/06/10/movies/10five.html?_r=3|title=Movie Review – 5x2|last=Scott|first=AO|date=10 June 2005|work=[[The New York Times]]|access-date=15 October 2009}}</ref>

The individual chapters are all punctuated by romantic Italian love songs, which Ozon has said he chose for their "over-the-top sentimentality" and in order to offset the darkness of some of the scenes in the film.<ref name="Ozon">{{cite web|url=http://francois-ozon.com/en/interviews-5x2-five-times-two|title=Interviews about 5x2|publisher=Francois Ozon Official Site|access-date=15 October 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161228082228/http://francois-ozon.com/en/interviews-5x2-five-times-two|archive-date=28 December 2016|url-status=dead}}</ref> Ozon has also said that the backward structure of the story was in part inspired by [[Jane Campion]]'s 1986 film ''[[Two Friends (1986 film)|Two Friends]]'', and that it allowed for "a true, lucid reading of a couple's story".<ref name="Ozon" />