30/41
After years apart, the star-crossed lovers find that every path they’ve taken leads them back to each other
Scenario
Clotaire, a rebellious local teenager, falls in love with his classmate Jackie – but gang violence leads him down a darker, destructive path. Malik Frikah, who plays 17-year-old Clotaire in this film, was a world champion Breakdancer when he was 10 years old. old.. One of the characters wears a ceramic Rolex Daytona in the 1990s, but the watch was only released in 2016.
Mes MainsMusic by Gilbert BécaudLyrics by Pierre Delanoë
The first part with the children is quite good. The film should have ended there for the sake of the audience. And Gilles Lellouche would direct one of the best French teenage romances of the decade. The rest of the movie, the second act, is terrible.
At first, the film seems like a modern take on playing the Count of Monte
Actors François Civil and Adèle Exarchopoulos lack chemistry, their performances in this film are bland and without compromise. I suspect that both actors should begin to reevaluate their own careers in French cinema when their two newcomers, Mallory Wanecque and Malik Frikah, shine and steal the show in this confusingly mediocre film. Cristo .. I mean the old story of a wronged young rebel who returns to seek revenge and search for his beloved.
Stylized and tacky male look
However, he comes off with an exaggerated and cartoonish toxic masculinity. And in the middle and at the end of the second act, the plot loses credibility. The problem, beyond anything else, is the film’s strange determination to claim originality in every shot it offers without ever once achieving it. Every time it comes to a decision, always go for the most formal, the most obvious.
What we have already seen
And so, it repeats, for three hours, the closest thing to a French blockbuster, with good marketing and PR behind it, is what French audiences will see this year.