After years of separation, the star-crossed lovers discover that every path they choose brings them back together
Chronology
Local rebellious teenager Clotaire falls in love with his schoolmate Jackie, but gang violence leads him down a darker and more destructive path. Malik Frikah, who plays 17-year-old Clotaire in this film, was a world champion breakdancer at the age of 10. One of the characters wears a Rolex Daytona Ceramic in the 1990s, but the watch wasn’t released until 2016.
Mes Mains Music Gilbert Bécaud Lyrics Pierre Delanoë
The first part with the kids is pretty good. The film should have ended there for the audience. And Gilles Lellouche would direct one of the best French teen love stories of the decade.
The rest of the film, the second act, is terrible
Actors François Civil and Adèle Exarchopoulos lack chemistry together, their acting in this film is dull and uncompromising. I suspect both actors should start rethinking their careers in French cinema when two newcomers, Mallory Wanecque and Malik Frikah, outdo them and steal the show in this mediocre and confusing film. At first, the film seems like a modern version of The Count of Monte Cristo…
A stylized and tacky male gaze
I mean the old story of an unjustly wounded young rebel who returns to seek revenge and find his beloved. However, it hits upon an exaggerated and caricatured toxic masculinity. And in the middle and end of the second act, the plot loses its credibility.
What we’ve already seen
In addition to all the weight, the problem is the film’s strange determination to claim originality in every shot without ever succeeding. Whenever you decide, always choose the most formal, the most obvious. And so it plays for three hours, which is the closest thing to a French blockbuster with good marketing and public relations behind it that French audiences will see this year.
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