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What's your favorite film by Abdellatif Kechiche?

haven't seen any
1 (12.5%)
don't like any
0 (0%)
Poetical Refugee
0 (0%)
L'Esquive (Games of Love and Chance)
0 (0%)
La Graine et le Mulet (The Secret of the Grain)
1 (12.5%)
Sueur (Short)
0 (0%)
Black Venus
1 (12.5%)
La Vie d'Adèle (Blue Is the Warmest Colour)
4 (50%)
Mektoub, My Love: Canto Uno
1 (12.5%)
Mektoub, My Love: Intermezzo
0 (0%)

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Author Topic: Kechiche, Abdellatif  (Read 2310 times)

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Re: Kechiche, Abdellatif
« Reply #10 on: June 24, 2015, 01:37:27 PM »
La Vie d'Adèle
L'Esquive
La Graine et le Mullet
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Re: Kechiche, Abdellatif
« Reply #11 on: April 09, 2018, 01:52:57 PM »
Might want to add his latest (Mektoub, My Love: Canto Uno), which has been received very positively here and may or may not get a follow-up very soon. There are rumblings of the second part (which may only be the second of many) showing up at Cannes.
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Re: Kechiche, Abdellatif
« Reply #12 on: April 09, 2018, 02:44:58 PM »
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A romantic drama about a young screenwriter faced with a difficult choice between his lover and his career.

Now there's a tag line that just screams "six-hour epic!"

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Re: Kechiche, Abdellatif
« Reply #13 on: April 09, 2018, 03:07:09 PM »
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A romantic drama about a young screenwriter faced with a difficult choice between his lover and his career.

Now there's a tag line that just screams "six-hour epic!"

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I think that tagline is a spoiler for part two (Canto... Duo ?) because it does not describe the first part at all besides the fact that the protagonist is an aspiring screenwriter/photographer (and presumably a Kechiche stand-in).

Edit: I see it's Canto Due. Also, voted for Canto Uno which I liked (review probably coming in the coming days) despite it consisting 90% of things I try to avoid in my life (gossip and parties), but also I haven't seen anything else by Kechiche and should certainly remedy that.
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Re: Kechiche, Abdellatif
« Reply #14 on: April 11, 2018, 04:09:42 AM »
Black Venus, 50°
Blue Is The Warmest Color, 40°
The Secret Of The Grain, 30°
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Re: Kechiche, Abdellatif
« Reply #15 on: May 24, 2019, 10:36:33 AM »
The reaction of English language press to this new Kechiche is hilarious.

FWIW, the reaction of the French critics is also... mixed, but much more evenly so (and some really love it).
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Re: Kechiche, Abdellatif
« Reply #16 on: May 24, 2019, 10:51:57 AM »
Brett Ratner reading the script for Mektoub, My Love:


 

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