The director Abdellatif Kechiche, “Virtuoso of the camera and the assembly” – RTS.CH

By selecting from the 18 films of the international competition the last part of the trilogy of the Franco-Tunisian director Abdellatif Kechiche, Locarno succeeded. Moreover, In 2019. Consequently, the Screening in Cannes competition of “Mektoub My Love: Intermezzo”, the second part of this saga on the youth of the 1990s, had triggered a storm due to very raw sex scenes.

The film never released in theaters and, after six years of absence, the return of Abdellatif Kechiche was eagerly awaited.

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Critics after the press vision – Director abdellatif kechiche, "virtuoso camera

Screened for the press on August 8 in Locarno, the latest film by Abdellatif Kechiche was viewed by many international journalists. Furthermore, Special envoy to Locarno. Nevertheless, the vertigo producer on RTS Première Pierre Philippe Cadert greets “Virtuosity” of Kechiche, his “fabulous editing”, the actresses and actors “brilliant” as well as certain “absolutely incredible” scenes. Meanwhile, But overall, he remains on his hunger: “Fate [des personnages] did not interested me at all. It didn’t really touch me. I felt like I was dealing with a virtuoso with the camera and the editing that tells us: ‘Look how I can film these young bodies, look how beautiful they are, as the sun is well’ “.

For its part, the cinema critic of RTS Rafael Wolf came out of the press vision “both captivated and fascinated. I found it funny, exquisite, at a serious time, there director abdellatif kechiche, “virtuoso camera is everything. We have the impression of being both in an author’s film. in an attempt to imagine a Hollywood film, a vaudeville, even a bad soap opera. (…) under the camera of Kechiche That the destinies of the characters never stop going to another direction than that. which is planned.

“We remained stuck by the beauty of the film”

Asked in the show Vertigo of August 6. the artistic director of the Giona A. Nazzaro festival returns to the selection of the film in international competition: “When we saw him here in Locarno during a work session. we remained taped by the beauty of director abdellatif kechiche, “virtuoso camera the film (….). It was so natural, so fluid. We had the impression that there had been no cuts on the set.”

The director underlines that it is not an anti-metoo film. that we should not see it in this perspective before adding: “If we do not discuss in a festival, (…) of what is problematic, maybe tomorrow, we will no longer have the opportunity to do it. I do not want to name a situation. but we know that we cannot do it in many places in the world.”

In this third opus entitled “Mektoub My Love: Canto due”. Amin returns director abdellatif kechiche, “virtuoso camera to Sète after his studies in Paris, always dreaming of cinema. An American producer on vacation is interested in his project. “the essential principles of universal existence”, and wants his wife, Jess, heroin. But fate, capricious, imposes its own rules.

The film will be screened worldwide on August 9 in the presence of several actors. actresses, but without the director Abdellatif Kechiche who recalls a stroke.