“Legendary”, “Funny”, “Fresh” … The unanimous press ahead of “Mektoub, My Love (canto due)” Abdellatif Kechiche

The controversial filmmaker signed his comeback this Friday at the Locarno Festival Friday. In addition, Even if he was absent from the festivities, his long -awaited film was strongly applauded by criticism.

Few films are taking on cinephile criticism in the same gesture. Meanwhile, The case is even more unprecedented when the said feature film is the fact of an ultra-polemic filmmaker. Similarly, whose manufacturing methods to say the least intense and the “Male Gaze” are strongly criticized. Similarly, And that this fiction turns out to be the continuation of a cursed work. Meanwhile, Interlude, Never left in theaters so his only projection on the Croisette in 2019 had created the scandal. However, A long scene of unpaid cunnilingus had indeed created a break between the filmmaker. In addition, one of his main actresses, Ophélie Bau.

After crossing the seven -year long desert. Furthermore, “legendary”, “funny”, “fresh” … unanimous shovel quarrels, Abdellatif Kechiche, targeted by a complaint for “sexual assault” in 2018 (classified without follow -up in 2020), surprisingly enchanted the press with her new film, Mektoub My Love (Canto Due)presented this Friday to journalists during the Locarno festival, in Switzerland. For example, The third part of its French Riviera trilogy. Similarly, which recounts the emotions and antics of young people in the 1990s and which had been turned almost in 2017 in the wake of Sing oneis selected in official competition.

Victim of a mid-March stroke. Nevertheless, the filmmaker was not present during the screening, but the actors of the film, Ophélie Bau in mind, were them in the front row.

The film. Therefore, whose first images were revealed in early August, focuses, as always, on the romantic tribulations of Ophélie (Ophélie Bau), pregnant and about to marry another, and Amin (Shaïn Boumedine), aspiring filmmaker, who returns to Sète after “legendary”, “funny”, “fresh” … unanimous his Parisian studies. An American producer (Andre Jacobs) on vacation is interested in his project. The essential principles of universal existenceand hopes that his wife, Jessa (Jessica Pennington), he is the heroine. These two characters from the country of Uncle Sam bring. according to the press, an unprecedented and more than welcome humorous touch.

"legendary", "funny", "fresh" … unanimous – "legendary", "funny", "fresh" … unanimous

Best component? – "legendary", "funny", "fresh" … unanimous

For the Parisian. the French filmmaker haloed by a golden palm in 2013 for Adèle’s life – Shared with her two actresses Léa Seydoux and Adèle Exarchopoulos, who then clearly criticized the “horrible” shooting conditions – and two César for best film – Dodge in 2005, then The seed and the mule In 2008 – simply “folded the match” with his new film. “It is an immense pleasure to find Kechiche and his dazzling. His unique way of filming hair, or the fragile beauty of a lamb,” continues the Ile “legendary”, “funny”, “fresh” … unanimous -de -France newspaper.

Liberation also greets the “magnificent reunions” with the small bunch of characters. “eternally fresh, summer, mudits maybe to constantly replay the same piece, mid-Greek mid-tragedy, southern southern half-opera.”

Mektoub My Love (Canto Due)which lasts 2h14, would even be better than the two previous opus in the trilogy. “We raised the first film or even the invisible interlude to the rank of masterpieces? What does it want: instead of taking the melon. playing the bidder, the third film is funny and puts all feet on the ground,” exclaims three colors.

Abdellatif Kechiche even “never filmed with such sadly smiling gravity the games of love. chance”, underlines Le Parisien. “With the same band of characters, the same decor, he tells another, shorter, more nervous story. He plays with styles, going much further towards laughter and darkness, thriller, even sitcom ‘Borderline'”, continues everyday life. And add: “When the purest cinema, like a diamond, “legendary”, “funny”, “fresh” … unanimous knocks on your door, you have to open it.”

For the world, this “sensual” and “furiously funny” feature film features an “phenomenal” Ophélie Bau. “His character is whole. his smile with absolute kindness, disarming her slanderous entourage, who seeks to understand what is going on,” dubbed the newspaper. The famous Parisian, him, the “formidable” performance of Shaïn Boumedine, Ophélie Bau, Jessica Pennington and Salim Kechiouche.

"legendary", "funny", "fresh" … unanimous – "legendary", "funny", "fresh" … unanimous

No sulphurous scenes

Above all. the press unanimously rejoices that the filmmaker has given up his sexual scenes, some would say objective and sexualizing. “”Singing two Give less space to bodies and nudity. There are a few nudity scenes. but the “male gauze” which had been a lot pointed to Sing one et Interlude is much less manifest here, explains Allociné. No scene in the film seems, a priori, to be able to give rise to a controversy. “

“Abdellatif Kechiche puts in “legendary”, “funny”, “fresh” … unanimous pieces the old male dreaming of eternal youth and thin thighs”, rents the world. Better yet: “In this third part. the female characters dictate their law of desire – more sorrow of love, nor jealousy between women. The girls want to share men, each their turn, as long as they have their dose”. Several tricolor media even hope for a new French Riviera component.