After Grâce à Dieu , a serious and beautiful film about the victims of the pedophile priest Bernard Preynat, François Ozon wanted lightness for his nineteenth feature film. To return to the summer of 1985, that of his 17 years, an age when, it seems, we are not serious. The adolescent reads that year La Danse du coucou , a novel by the English writer Aidan Chambers. A love story between two boys in a small seaside town. Ozon, not yet a filmmaker, decides to adapt it to make it his first film. He writes the script before abandoning the project.
Summer 2020, the film is there, shot in 16 mm on the Normandy coast, and it seems the ideal story to rediscover the carefree attitude of his lost youth. But Summer 85 is not a gay version of La Boum and Ozon is anything but a sentimental director. Alexis, in voice over, announces from the start the color, very little candy pink: “David Gorman comes on the scene. He's the future corpse. " It’s hard to believe that the handsome David, full of passion and
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