With “Mektoub, My Love: Canto Due,” Abdellatif Kechiche renews his law of desire

"You'll see, he's not a Kechiche like the others," Hassan Guerrar, director, press officer and long-time collaborator of Abdellatif Kechiche, told a journalist . It was at the Locarno Film Festival (Switzerland), whose 78th edition took place from August 6 to 16, that the long-awaited film, Mektoub, My Love: Canto Due, made its world premiere, after several years of uncertainty and budgetary perils: while Mektoub, My Love: Canto Uno (2018) had enjoyed critical and public success, the second part, Mektoub, My Love: Intermezzo (2019), created a scandal at Cannes , due in particular to an unsimulated sex scene, which had generated a form of rift between the filmmaker and one of the actresses.

In fact, Intermezzo was never released in theaters and the distributor of the third part, Pathé, is waiting to see how the film is received before setting a firm date. The three Mektoub films capture the energy of a group of girls and boys in Sète (Hérault) during the summer of 1994, in the midst of the sexual liberation boom. Mektoub is a bit like the visualization of Serge Gainsbourg's Sea, Sex and Sun (1978). But the nightclub, the main location of Intermezzo , is gone in this last part .

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