"I won't let anyone say that 16 is the best age in life
," one would be tempted to write, paraphrasing Nizan, regarding Philippe Lioret's new film.
With
16 years,
the filmmaker of
I'm fine, don't worry
and of
Welcome
tackles the contemporary reinterpretation of an eternal Shakespearean literary myth, that of Romeo and Juliet.
It does it head-on, no frills, but with a real sense of urgency that gives the film its highly flammable feel.
Nora and Leo meet on the day of the new school year in second class.
The development of the plot is rapid, nervous, inexorable.
Lioret films the delicate period of adolescence like an intense and volcanic material.
In this cruelly banal Parisian establishment, the love at first sight between Nora and Léo ignites passions.
The two young actors, Sabrina Levoye and Teïlo Azaïs, compose a credible and realistic idyll with accents of truth.
Their first emotions ring...
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