50/13
After years apart, the lovers discover that every path they take leads them back
Chronology
Local rebellious teenager Clotaire falls in love with his school friend Jackie, but gang violence leads him down a darker, more destructive path. Malik Frikah, who plays 17-year-old Clotaire in this film, was a world breakdance champion at the age of 10. old.. One of the characters wears a Rolex Daytona Ceramic in the 1990s, but the watch wasn’t released until 2016.
We MainsMusic Gilbert Bécaud Lyrics by Pierre Delanoë
The first part with the kids is pretty good. That’s where the movie should have ended for the audience. And Gilles Lellouche would have directed one of the best French teen romances of this decade. The rest of the film, the second act, is terrible.
At first glance, the film seems like a modern take on “The Count of Monte”
Actors François Civil and Adèle Exarchopoulos lack chemistry together, their acting in this film is bland and uncompromising. I suspect both actors should start rethinking their careers in French cinema when two newcomers Mallory Wanecque and Malik Frikah outdo them 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 find his beloved.
A stylized and tacky male gaze
But it falls apart with an exaggerated and caricatured toxic masculinity. And in the middle and at the end of the second act, the plot loses credibility. The problem, in addition to the burden of everything, is the strange determination shown by the film, which claims originality in every one of its frames, without ever achieving it. Every time it needs to make a decision, it always chooses the most formal, the most obvious.
What we have already seen
And so, it repeats itself, three hours of the closest plot to a great French film, with good marketing and public relations, will be seen by French audiences this year.