“It is useless, why run?” There are lots of girls desire… ” No big deal if we never knew what the spoke-Susurored chorus of the pop singer on Friday at sea meant there. We have already sang with her, just like PrinCia because undoubtedly, author of a first feature film where these words belong to everyone. What is a desire girl suddenly? The director, founder of an alternative cinema school in Marseille where she also supervises theater workshops, asked herself the question with the troop of young actors who has accompanied her for eight years of collaborative creation. The film draws from their natural people of 20 years (Housam Mohamed, Leïa Haïchour, Lou Anna Hamon, beautiful as everything), seized in flight by a camera that does not want to lose a drop.
It is the summer of the building slabs that heat, swimming in bands, outings at the funfair. At the end of this tale of initiation in full sun, which turns from the sweet to the bitter, a love triangle was dislocated, the cruelty of desire did its work, and sown doubt in the very adjusted, very male values system of the circle of friends, an instrument of discreet control of the sexuality of the girls.
It’s easy at first, Yasmine is the respectable girl, Carmen the temptress, o
