Mektoub, My Love

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Mektoub, My Love

2018

2h 55m

Comedy

Drama

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21 Reviews

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Fewer than 50 Ratings

A teenager returns to his hometown during summer break to find love.

Critics Consensus

Joyless and distastefully photographed, Abdellatif Kechiche's second chapter in his romantic epic is too enamored with derrière to offer audiences a reason to care.

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Bilge Ebiri

New York Magazine/Vulture

05/25/2019

Beyond being tiresome, Intermezzo is just plain ugly, with seemingly little care given to the image - odd, perhaps, given that the film is so clearly and confrontationally about its own director's gaze.

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A.A. Dowd

AV Club

05/24/2019

D

In practice, however, the film is a slog of epic proportions, its trancelike repetitiveness threatening to destroy this critic's fragile grasp on time itself, ushering me into a new plane of star-child boredom.

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David Ehrlich

IndieWire

05/24/2019

C-

Kechiche devotes about 60% of its runtime to extreme close-ups of jiggling female derrieres. And while that horrifyingly unexaggerated statistic may sound like a bit of a red flag to begin with, it only gets worse...

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Joseph Fahim

Middle East Eye

07/03/2021

Intermezzo is the work of a film-maker gone down the rabbit hole, an ugly picture built on objectification and contempt for the audience.

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Leonardo Garcia Tsao

La Jornada

06/12/2019

Despite some stimulating scenes, Mektoub, My Love: Intermezzo becomes as tedious as ... well, like spending three hours on a nightclub saturated with electronic music, listening to futile conversations about the war of the sexes. [Full Review in Spanish]

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Jason Gorber

HighDef Digest

06/04/2019

F

Mektoub, My Love: Intermezzo will surely go down as a footnote as one of the worst films to ever play in competition at Cannes. The movie actually makes cinema worse by its very existence.

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andrea c

@Charst 08/20/2021

Progetto ambizioso ed interessante, pronto a dar vita ad una trilogia che potrebbe essere molto affascinante. Le vite e gli amori di un gruppo di giovani francesi si mischiano perfettamente, formando una storia piena di dettagli, di personalità e straboccante di sensualità. Il protagonista resta il personaggio più ambiguo e misterioso durante il film; a tratti risulta quasi come un narratore esterno ed indipendente dagli altri personaggi. Sfido chiunque a non ritrovare nei caratteri dei film, qualcuno di conosciuto nella vita reale. La lunga durata si percepisce solo a momenti, con una trama che lascia quasi tutto lo spazio a dialoghi di vita quotidiana. Il piatto è apparecchiato per una trilogia molto innovativa.

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Abdel Kechiche

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Shaïn Boumedine

Amin

Ophélie Bau

Ophélie

Salim Kechiouche

Tony

Lou Luttiau

Céline

Alexia Chardard

Charlotte

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Synopsis

A teenager returns to his hometown during summer break to find love.

Director: Abdel Kechiche
Producer: Abdel Kechiche
Screenwriter: Abdel Kechiche, Ghalya Lacroix, François Bégaudeau
Production Co: Quat'sous Films, Pathé, Good Films, France 2 Cinéma
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Original Language: French (France)
Runtime: 2h 55m