Few films are assuming Cinefiles criticism in the same gesture. The case is even more unprecedented when this feature film is the fact of an ultra controversial filmmaker, whose manufacturing methods to say the least intense and the “male look” are strongly criticized. And that this fiction turns out to be the continuation of a cursed job, Intermezzo, He never left in theaters, so his only projection in Croisette in 2019 had created the scandal. A long unpaid Cunnilingus scene had created a break between the filmmaker and one of his main actresses, Ophélie Bau.
After crossing the seven -year desert and shovel disputes, Abdellatif Kechiche, attacked by a complaint for “sexual assault” in 2018 (classified without follow -up in 2020), surprisingly enchanted the press with his new film, Mektoub my love (defeated song)Journalists were presented this Friday during the Locarno Festival, in Switzerland. The third part of its French Riviera trilogy, which recounts the emotions and mischief of young people in the 1990s and that had become almost 2017 following Sing oneIt is selected in the official competition.
Victim of a blow from mid -March, the filmmaker was not present during the projection, but the actors of the film, Ophélie Bau, were in the front row.
The film, whose first images were revealed in early August, focuses, as always, on the romantic tribulations of Ophélie (Ophélie Bau), pregnant and point of marrying another, and Amin (Shaïn Boumedine), aspiring filmmaker, who returns to Sète after his Parisian studies. An American producer (Andre Jacobs) on vacation is interested in his project, The essential principles of universal existenceAnd he hopes his wife, Jessa (Jessica Pennington), he is heroin. These two characters from Uncle Sam bring, according to the press, an unprecedented humorous touch and more than welcome.
The best component?
For the Parisian, the French filmmaker Halo for a gold palm in 2013 for Adèle’s life – Shared with their two actresses Léa Seydoux and Adèle Exarchopoulos, who clearly criticized the “horrible” filming conditions, and two César for the best film – Dodge In 2005, then The seed and the mule In 2008, he simply “folded the game” with his new film. “It is a great pleasure to find Kechiche and his dazzling. His unique way of filming the hair, or the fragile beauty of a lamb,” continues the newspaper Ile -of
Liberation also greets the “magnificent meetings” with the small group of characters, “Eternally Fresh, Summer, mudits, perhaps to constantly reproduce the same piece, the Greek average tragedy, the south of the middle of the south.”
Mektoub my love (defeated song)That lasts 2h14, it would even be better for the two previous Opus in the trilogy. “We lift the first film or even the invisible interlude to the range of masterpieces? What do you want: instead of taking the melon and playing the bidder, the third film is fun and puts every feet on the ground,” he exclaims three colors.
Abdellatif Kechiche even “never filmed with such a sadly smiling gravity the games of love and chance,” says Le Parisien. “With the same band of characters, the same decoration, tells another shorter and more nervous story. He plays with styles, going much more towards laughter and darkness, the thriller, even the comedy of ‘borderline’ situation,” everyday life continues. And add: “When the purest cinema, like a diamond, knocks on his door, has to open it.”
For the world, this “sensual” and “furiously fun” feature film presents an Ophélie Bau “phenomenal”. “His character is complete, his smile with absolute kindness, disarming his so -called entourage, which seeks to understand what is happening,” the newspaper called. The famous Parisian, he, the “formidable” performance of Shaïn Boumedine, Ophélie Bau, Jessica Pennington and Salim Kechiouche.
No sulphurous scenes
Above all, the press unanimously rejoices that the filmmaker has renounced his sexual scenes, some would say objectives and sexualization. “Due song Give less space to bodies and nudity. There are some nude scenes, but the “male gauze” that had been very marked Sing one AND Intermezzo It is much less manifest here, explains the assigned. No scene in the film seems, a priori, to be able to give rise to a controversy. “
“Abdellatif Kechiche pieces to the old man who dreams of eternal young people and thin thighs,” the world rents. Better yet: “In this third part, the female characters dictate their law of desire: more sadness of love, or jealousy among women. Girls want to share men, each of them, provided they have their dose.” Several tricolor media even expect a new French Riviera component.
Source: BFM TV
