Adapting Aidan Chambers’s Dance on My Grave, the French director’s latest teen seaside romance hasn't the edge of his younger work, but is rich in human drama. Summer of 85 is released in cinemas and on Curzon Home Cinema on October 23, 2020. They are both, after all, a sun-soaked movie about falling in love, set in the eighties. Here he turns his attention to Aidan Chambers’s celebrated 1982 YA novel Dance on My Grave, which charts a summer romance between two boys. Summer of 85 is a teen movie of two halves. Join Facebook to connect with Félix Lefebvre and others you may know. Profession(s): Academic, historian Books: Classes and Class Struggles during the French Revolution (1953), The Parisian Sans-Culottes and the French Revolution (1964), The Sans Culottes: the Popular Movement and Revolutionary Government (1972), The French Revolution 1787-1799 (1975), A Short History of the French Revolution … Another film about an older same-sex couple is one of the two gay Asian entries.
“What’s beautiful about this movie is that it’s really a love story and nothing else. Amityville Horror: The Evil Escapes (1989), The Last Will and Testament of Rosalind Leigh (2012), The Positively True Adventures of the Alleged Texas Cheerleader-Murdering Mom (1993), Hammer Horror: The Warner Brothers Years (2018), BLOOD & FLESH: REEL LIFE... OF AL ADAMSON, EXTREMELY WICKED SHOCKINGLY EVIL AND VILE. A casualty of Ozon’s steadily maturing vision has been the sharpness and playfulness of his wit. Already a hit in France, Summer of 85 now seems to chime with the times in a way Ozon couldn’t have envisaged. The fabulous “Alice Júnior” is a fun, fast-paced comedy about the title character (Anne Celestino Mota), a never-been-kissed trans teenager who moves with her father Jean Genet (Emmanuel Rosset) to a small town. Star Félix Lefebvre and director François Ozon discuss this year’s most poignant and nostalgic love story. Set in a sleepy seaside town in Normandy, it follows the intense romance that develops between innocent, death-obsessed Alexis (Félix Lefebvre… Here the director displays the rich colours and breezy possibilities of a teenage summer romance, providing a highly watchable and sweet drama that while falling into some of the director’s more melodramatic tendencies feels honest and earned. However, just as Alex is easily seduced by the handsome and charming David, he also becomes jealous. “Making Sweet Tea” an insightful documentary chronicling Dr. E. Patrick Johnson’s interviews with black gay men across the South about their lives. Whether it is through stolen moments of passion, neon-drenched nights on the dance floor to 1980s bangers from the likes of The Cure and Bananarama, or adolescent conversations about dreams for the future, Summer of 85 is a satisfying addition to the coming-of-age genre and another successful addition to François Ozon’s filmography. He returns to Rurangi, his hometown, reuniting with his estranged father, Gerald (Kirk Torrance), as well as his ex-boyfriend, Jem (Arlo Green), and others who knew him a decade earlier. So, a social worker was asked to find out what had happened, and at the second hearing she told the magistrates that the boy had made an oath with his friend: if one of them died, the other would dance on his grave.”. With the confident David taking him home and introducing him to his garrulous mother (Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi), it’s not long before Alex is smitten by this born seducer. Nimbly shifting the setting from Southend-on-Sea to Le Tréport in Normandy, Ozon also moves the time period of the text on by a few years, the better to invest the screenplay with details and memories from his own adolescence. The upbeat coda, with a character finding, in typical Ozon fashion, a substitute of sorts for a departed partner, feels forced. Wedding & NewFest Centerpiece All in One Month! That goes for much of the second half, in which the film, itself never quite recovering from a character’s demise, resorts to by-the-numbers melodrama and some tonally uncertain scenes. Another film with a homecoming theme is the absorbing “Rurangi” (starting Oct. 21, 8 p.m.). Still, there’s nods to its British origins in Alexis and David’s sympathetic English friend, Kate (Philippine Velge), and a soundtrack flecked with ’80s pop gems by Bananarama and The Cure. Summer of 85 (French: Été 85) is a 2020 French-Belgian drama film written and directed by François Ozon, partly based upon the novel Dance on My Grave by Aidan Chambers.It stars Félix Lefebvre, Benjamin Voisin, Philippine Velge, Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, Melvil Poupaud, and Isabelle Nanty. The men discuss topics including coming out, race, interracial relationships, class, gender roles, family, the church, and HIV/ AIDS — with candor and sometimes cattiness. “Even if you’re someone who’s older and had a lot of relationships, I think this movie will remind you of first love and maybe some of the mistakes you made.”, Director Francois Ozon (centre) with his two stars. Scotti talks on and off-stage about her life before her transition, and she startles herself watching a clip of a transphobic routine she earlier performed as a man. The couple are Martha and Sean (Vanessa Kirby and Shia LaBeouf). 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However, Francois Ozon’s work here tries to race quickly away and makes for an unusual, if albeit, tender romantic drama. Two feature films that also portray trans lives and feature pre-teens are screening at NewFest. The film has a brilliantly wistful score by Air’s Jean-Benoît Dunckel, but also slips in dreamy ’80s bops by Bananarama (‘Cruel Summer’) and Italian pop star Raf (‘Self Control’ – a song later covered by Laura Branigan).
“It’s not only for the gay audience. “We’re in 2020, but still lots of people are not open-minded about the fact that two guys or two girls can love each other and this is something cool and real,” says Lefebvre.
Voisin and Lefebvre play two teens who fall for each other one summer. He was the second son and third child of eight children of textile factory-owner René Lefebvre and Gabrielle, born Watine, who died in 1938.. His parents were devout Catholics who brought their children to daily Mass. Revered French director François Ozon (8 femmes, Swimming Pool) deftly captures the giddy thrill of first love but also hints that a gut-wrenching tragedy is coming. It was a question of the film’s title, because ‘In Between Days’ was a hit in 1985.”, Clearly, Smith disliked the fact that the song wasn’t even released in the year the film was going to be set. Finally, NewFest offers viewers a sneak peek at the latest film by out gay writer/ director François Ozon, “Summer of 85” (starting Oct. 17, 8 p.m.). Credit: Curzon. However, Ozon first read the novel a couple of years later, and connected its central tragedy to the untimely deaths of so many young gay men. The two youths quickly become fast friends and couple up romantically. Ozon play out the mercurial dynamics in this intense coming-of-age/ loss-of-innocence drama.
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