The summer he turned 16, Alex was heroically saved from a sinking ship by 18-year-old David during a sea voyage off the coast of Normandy. Alexis just met the friend of her dreams. But will the dream last more than one summer? Summer of 85…
It’s François Ozon’s brilliant 85-year-old Summer Square, a poetic piece about adolescence and first love that features the wonderful actor Benjamin Voisin (César for Most Promising Actor for Lost Illusions). This beautiful, superbly directed film dealing with topics such as homosexuality, crime and mourning will not leave you indifferent.
Summer 85Presented in Official Selection at the 2020 Cannes Film Festival, loosely adapted from the novel by Aidan Chambers, cuckoo dancethat Francois Ozon He read it in 1985, when he was seventeen years old. “He spoke intimately to the teenager I was” The director recalls. “The book is very entertaining and inventive in its language and construction. It includes drawings, excerpts from press articles, changes in point of view, repetition of sequences from a different perspective. I got a lot of pleasure from reading and when I started making short films, I said to myself: “One day if I make a feature film, my first film will be an adaptation of this novel.”
“Universal” love story
Francois Ozon Be faithful to a book that never problematizes homosexuality or makes it a problem. “Alex and David love each other and the fact that they are two boys is never the main thing”says the director. “That’s why I dreamed of watching this movie as a teenager, because the representations of homosexuality in the cinema of the 80s were very dark, painful, even before the advent of AIDS. I wanted to get teen codes before the movie came out. I made a film about a romance between boys in a very classic way and without irony, so that this love story could become universal.
Summer 85, towering over Call Me by Your Name and Eric Rohmer’s Cinematic Shadow, is a film that needs to be discovered quickly. Don’t miss this opportunity!
Tonight at Arte at 20:55.
François Ozon, Benjamin Voisin and Félix Lefebvre talk about the film “Summer of 85”
Source: Allocine
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