Abdellatif Kechiche satiated for three and a half hours his obsession with the female body, leaving the audience dazed.
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| Actors and actresses of Abdellatif Kechiche's film, "Mektoub My Love |
Abdellatif Kechiche satiated for three and a half hours his obsession with the female body, leaving the audience dazed.
Three-thirty, three of which was overwhelming. This is what forced us the last feature film of Abdellatif Kechiche, Mektoub, My Love: Intermezzo, which we do not understand the reasons that led to his selection in Cannes. Suite stretched to excess Mektoub, My Love: Canto Uno (released in 2018) - first part of a fresco that will include three - the film finds the place, the characters and actors left in the previous opus, without nothing to bring back again.
In the summer of 1994, there was a band of young people busy bathing, dancing and loving each other. We find them in September of the same year, at the end of the holidays, on the same sunny beach of Sète. Then in a nightclub where for three hours, in the repetitive tempo of an electro music, the spectator attends the unleashing of the girls' bodies, the caresses and kisses, the innocuous conversations of all this little world.
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Abdellatif Kechiche pushes to its height the aesthetics of exhaustion that he has always enjoyed practicing. The proposal which, in these previous films, could have the merit of subjecting us to a physical experience of the real, here resembles a pure provocation. Emptiness does not support that it is stretched to infinity. No more than the obsessive attachment of a camera glued to the fleshy parts of female anatomy can not prevent a form of obscenity. For if there still remained a doubt about the sickly fascination exerted on the filmmaker by the buttocks of teenage girls and young women, this film definitely sweeps it away. In Mektoub, My Love: Intermezzo, Abdellatif Kechiche frame them from all angles, "abandoned", feverish movement, front, profile, in the crotch, against-dive.
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