Complex sentence: Richard meets a French couple, Françoise (Virginie Ledoyen) and her laid back boyfriend, Étienne (Guillaume Canet), and persuades them to accompany him to the island, partly out of an attraction to Françoise.
Split into simpler sentences: Richard meets a French couple named Françoise (Virginie Ledoyen) and her laid back boyfriend Étienne (Guillaume Canet). He persuades them to accompany him to the island, partly out of an attraction to Françoise.