The brightness of the sun, the sea, the appearance of sewing, the raw bodies. The first images and the unpublished extract of Mektoub my love (defeated song)Presented at the Site of the Locarno Festival (August 6-16, 2025), where the film was selected in competition, they seem to be completely in line with sensual cinema, some would say “Objectif”, by Abdellatif Kechiche.
After seven years of absence and a feature film Intermezzo Presented in Cannes but never released in theaters, the ultra -control filmmaker has here the rest of the adventures of the young Amin, already incorporated on the screen by Shaïn Boumedine in Mektoub my love (singing one)launched in 2018 and obtaining 132,000 admissions according to CBO.
Shot as a “singing one”
At the site of the Locarno Festival, an unprecedented synopsis specific: “Amin returns to Sète after her studies in Paris, always dreaming of the cinema. An American holiday producer is interested in her project, The essential principles of universal existenceAnd he loves his wife, Jess, he is heroine. But fate, capricious, imposes its own rules. “
Together with Shaïn Boumedine, we find Ophélie Bau, Jessica Pennington, Salim Kechiouche, Andre Jacobs, Hafsia Herzi, Alexia Chardard, Dany Martial, Marie Bernard, Delinda Kechiche, Lou Luttiau, Kamel Saadi or even Athenau Sifaoui, according to the site of the Festival.
The film, freely adapted from the novel The injury, the real From François Bégaudeau, written by the director himself and Ghaaly Lacroix, he had shot in 2017, in the continuity of Sing one. Last 2h14 while the first part, Sing oneHe approached 2h55 and the second, Intermezzo3h32.
Immense protest
As a reminder, the filmmaker who received the palm d’Or in 2013 by Adèle’s life (Shared trophy with their two actresses Léa Seydoux and Adèle Exarchopoulos), having collected more than one million tickets according to CBO, had experienced an immense protest during the dissemination ofIntermezzo Apart from the 2019 Cannes Film Festival.
He was criticized for his way of filming bodies, especially women, his “male gauze”, taking a unpaid sex scene, as well as the duration of his film, four hours at the beginning, descended to three and a half hours.
Diffusion side, Mektoub my love (singing 2) It still does not have a release date in France, but will be presented in a world preview this Saturday, August 9 at the Locarno Festival, and scrutinized by all.
Source: BFM TV
