Tonight on TV: this touching film released in 2020 holds a sad record

Summer 85a tragic summer love

Ultimately, François Ozon must ask himself what he could have done at the César Academy so that it, although very generous in terms of nominations for his films, never granted him a personal award. In fact, the director of Eight women, Potiche OR Frantz AND Thank God he was personally appointed six times TO César for best director, six times TO César for best filmand five times César for Best Original Screenplay or Best Adaptation. For no victory…

Its most recent nominations were received for Summer 85love drama released in 2020 and adapted from the novel The Cuckoo Dance by Aidan Chambers. For Summer 85he confided to Félix Lefebvre and Benjamin Voisin, still unknown to the general public, the story of a romantic encounter between two young boys, one summer in Normandy. Alex (Félix Lefebvre), 16 years old, discovers with David (Benjamin Voisin), 18 years old, his homosexuality. For Alex, of working-class origins, it is also the discovery of another world with David, more affluent. Freedom, music, carefree… But their idyll will be upset by the arrival of a young girl, Kate (Philippine Velge). Shortly afterwards an argument breaks out between David and Alex, after which David sets off on his motorbike and is killed on the road…

An expert and extravagant melodrama

With his expert and embodied reconstruction of the 1980s, François Ozon, born in 1967, offers a film in which an autobiographical source is also perceived. Intimate story of a awakening to love and sexuality, Summer 85 It is also the story of an entire generation, embodied by two formidable actors. The music (The cure, Rod Stewart), images shot on film and in Super 16 format to provide the plot, its settings and its accessories: it is impossible not to be transported into this time capsule of shocking events.

Upon its release in July 2020, in a period complicated by the Covid-19 pandemic, the film attracted attention 364,000 spectators in the theaters. So it does much less than Thank Godpublished in 2019 and which had accumulated approx 915 300 insertions. But on a critical level, Summer 85 he is acclaimed by a unanimous press and the profession likes him: he is in fact nominated 13 categories at the 2021 César ceremony.

A sad record at the Césars

At the Cesars 2021, Summer 85 is one of the favorites of the awards evening with 13 nominations. Goodbye idiots by Albert Dupontel also has 13, and The things we say, the things we do by Emmanuel Mouret leads the way 14 nomination. The big winner of the evening is Goodbye idiots who win 7 Caesar, including those for best film and best director. Emmanuel Mouret’s film won the César for best supporting actress only for Émilie Dequenne and Summer 85…gets none.

A disappointment for François Ozon and his main actors, both of whom were nominated César as most promising actoras well as for its teams responsible for sound, photography, editing, costumes and sets… This lack of rewards means thisSummer 85 equals a sad record. The one established by Camilla repeats in 2013, withIt won the most nominations received by a film without a César.

And this is unfortunately not the first time for François Ozon, since before reaching this milestone of 13 nominations and 0 César established in 2013, it was already one of his films that held this record. In fact, one of his greatest successes, Eight womenhad received in 2003 12 nominations for the Caesars but I hadn’t won any…

His new film When autumn arrivesat Cinema October 2, 2024could he reverse this trend and get some reward, or even finally allow François Ozon to distinguish himself personally?

Source: Cine Serie

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