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Title: Summer of 85 (2020)
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| Félix Lefebvre | ... | Alexis Robin | |
| Benjamin Voisin | ... | David Gorman | |
| Philippine Velge | ... | Kate | |
| Valeria Bruni Tedeschi | ... | Mme Gorman | |
| Melvil Poupaud | ... | M. Lefèvre | |
| Isabelle Nanty | ... | Mme Robin | |
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Laurent Fernandez | ... | M. Robin |
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Aurore Broutin | ... | L'éducatrice |
| Bruno Lochet | ... | Bernard, l'employé de la morgue | |
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Yoann Zimmer | ... | Luc |
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Antoine Simoni | ... | Chris |
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Patrick Zimmermann | ... | Le juge |
| Samuel Brafman-Moutier | ... | Le frère Gorman | |
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Benjamin Allouche | ... | Le Rabbin |
What do you dream of when you're 16 years old and in a seaside resort in Normandy in the 1980s? A best friend? A lifelong teen pact? Scooting off on adventures on a boat or a motorbike? Living life at breakneck speed? No. You dream of death. Because you can't get a bigger kick than dying. And that's why you save it till the very end. The summer holidays are just beginning, and this story recounts how Alexis grew into himself.
Such a pity this movie is released during corona. Été 85 deserves worldwide recognition and rewards like Call Me By Your Name. It is said director Francois Ozon was inspired by this movie to make his own version, set in 1985, when he turned 18 in France.
This movie is typically Ozon, he's a master in story telling, stirs up our emotions, appeals to our hormones. The cast is wonderful. The male lead (Alex) is a brooding 16 year old student, who goes down the rabbit hole in his passion for his flamboyant lover (David) an 18 year old unstable character who lost his father a year ago.
Almost from the start we know their love is doomed, but the story unfolds like a sweet gay summer romance. We watch the boys sailing, dancing, driving to the sea, watching the sunset, exchanging sloppy kisses, making out at every opportunity. All scenes are filmed in 16 mm tinted in light colors to remind us of the eighties.
The boys fling lasts only 6 weeks, but makes a life long impression on Alex with life lessons about seduction, passion, jealousy and death. Later on he asks himself questions about real love, and the ideal of love, two different things, like we all know, but difficult to discern when you're intensely in love for the very first time.
All in all I loved this sexy, nostalgic Gloom & Doom boys love that seems fitting for the eighties. Go watch it.