12/18

After years apart, the star-crossed lovers discover that every path they’ve taken leads them back together

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Clotaire, a rebellious local teenager, falls in love with his classmate Jackie, but gang violence leads him down a darker, destructive path. Malik Frikah, who plays 17-year-old Clotaire in this film, was a world champion breakdancer when he was 10. One of the characters wears a Rolex Daytona Ceramic in the 1990s, but the watch wasn’t released until 2016.

Mes MainsMusic by Gilbert BécaudLyrics by Pierre Delanoë

The first part, with the kids, is pretty good. The movie should have ended there for the sake of the audience. And Gilles Lellouche would have made one of the best French teen romances of the decade.

The rest of the movie, the second act, is awful

Actors François Civil and Adèle Exarchopoulos lack chemistry together, their acting in this film is bland and uncompromising. I think both actors should start rethinking their own careers in French cinema once the two newcomers Mallory Wanecque and Malik Frikah overshadow them and steal the show in this mediocre and confusing film. At first glance, it seems like the film is going to be a modern version of The Count of Monte Cristo…

A stylized and tacky male gaze

I mean the old story of the wronged young rebel who returns to seek revenge and seek out his beloved. However, it ends up with exaggerated and caricatured toxic masculinity. And in the middle and end of the second act, the plot finally loses its credibility.

What we have already seen

The problem, beyond the weight of all this, is the film’s strange determination to claim originality in every shot it offers without once succeeding. Whenever it comes to deciding, he always opts for the most formal, the most obvious. And so, he repeats, for three hours of what comes closest to a French blockbuster, with good marketing and public relations behind it, this is what the French public is going to see this year.

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