Mektoub, My Love: Canto Uno (2017)
Genre: Drama / Romance
Duration: 181 minuten
Alternative title: Mektoub, My Love
Country:
France / Italy
Directed by: Abdellatif Kechiche
Stars: Shaïn Boumedine, Ophélie Bau and Salim Kechiouche
IMDb score:
6,5 (4.574)
Releasedate: 7 September 2017
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Mektoub, My Love: Canto Uno plot
It is 1994. Amin hopes to build a life as a screenwriter in Paris. But in the summer he returns to Sète in the south of France to spend a holiday with his family and childhood friends. Accompanied by his cousin Tony and best friend Ophélie, they pass the days in the family's Tunisian restaurant, the nearby pubs and on the beach where the girls on vacation can be found. Holiday romances, booze and hormones propel the days on. Fascinated by the infatuation and deceit of his friends, Amin observes the passion of a summer in which he has not yet found his own destiny. However, his quest has begun...
Reviews & comments
wibro
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A beautiful nude scene - that's what this film starts with, furthermore beautiful scenes with stunning women. beautiful dance scenes to both beautiful Arabic and Italo disco music, beautiful beach scenes, beautiful images from a sheep farm and also a lot of chatter that is actually about nothing. Well, nowhere, actually just about love. Because that's what this film actually is; an ode to love or rather an ode to life. Not only depicted by horny gentlemen and beautiful ladies but also by the sheep, let's not forget the latter. In my opinion, this film, which didn't last too long, was actually perfect for the hot summer that we experienced this year. In any case, I left the room with a very nice summer feeling. That was very different yesterday after seeing On Chesire Island, where bourgeois stupidity abounded and where there was no trace of real life. But let me not digress;
After Adèle, Abdellatif Kechiche has again made a direct hit for me with this very light-hearted film. I hope that in the future he will surprise me even more with these kinds of romantic films that I can hardly call drama.
5.0*
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tbouwh
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At the previous Venice Film Festival (2017), some film journalists almost seemed to have planned to raze Abdellatif Kechiche's new film (La Vie d'Adèle) to the ground. It rained reactions in which the first part of Mektoub, My Love, was renamed the new Male gaze: the film. Indeed – the main character Amin (Shaïn Boudemine) looks and beholds, and the camera watches along. But the same main character withdraws in the middle of the summer holidays to watch Dovzhenko's Arsenal (1929) in the pitch black of his bedroom, and when an obviously interested lady asks him to the beach, he prefers to stay behind in a stable to watch the lyrical birth of a lamb. to do with it.
Every look shown also shows the potential of a great questioning, in which voyeurism is not a reprehensible commodity but a mirror. The film is a hyper-realistic character study, it has to be subjective to work. That fact is best played on and described in this essay that I found on the site from Kinoautomat. The writer's reflexive attitude shows an intelligent, where necessary critical perspective that is a relief compared to the fulminating critics who cheerfully go along with the politically-morally correct masses - their potential right dies due to a complete unwillingness to stand between the (film) read the rules.
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Film Pegasus (moderator films)
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After the very strong La vie d'Adèle, this film is a lot less. You see some of the style in Mektoub, but there is little focus in the story and characters. And even though it is somewhat atmospheric, it doesn't seem to go anywhere and doesn't make enough of an impression to rely solely on the atmosphere. There is potential in this film, but scrap an hour and more focused on fewer characters and you have a better film.
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