'Summer of 85' ('Ete 85') is the 19th feature from gifted French filmmaker Francois Ozon. Read THR's review:
How can an angelic-looking, 16-year-old blond boy resist a more tenebrous, slightly older man with a silver earring, a sailboat, a motorcycle and nipples peeking from beneath his billowy 1980s shirts? It's no surprise when cute Alex falls in love with the edgy and alluring — if also ill-omened — David in surprising is how deeply this French-language adaptation of British novelist Aidan Chambers' 1982 YA classic, , feels like a full-circle moment for Ozon, as well as for audiences who...
As the first major commercial title in France to carry the Cannes 2020 label, this July 14 domestic release should do brisk business as long as theaters are allowed to remain open. Its physical festival premiere is scheduled for San Sebastian in September, where , one of Ozon's other major films about the complexity and dark corners of the teenage mind, won the Golden Shell in 2012.
Alexis and his working-class parents have recently moved to the sleepy Normandy seaside town of Treport, where the fair-haired, round-faced boy knows few people.
What we're hearing in fact is David's writing, which occurs in the narrative's second timeline. It's there that a lucid but dispassionate social worker and Alexis' somewhat louche French teacher, Monsieur Lefevre , encourage him to write down what happened so a judge can make sense of Alexis' case, about which he's keeping mum.
Since we're seeing everything from Alexis' point-of-view, the rushed quality of the early going, when he is suddenly overwhelmed by meeting David and falls head-over-heels in love with him, makes sense. Ditto the shifty, over-the-top depiction of David's flighty, borderline inappropriate mother . Or the story's clumsy insistence on Alexis' obsession with death and the constant use of life and death metaphors in the dialogue.
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