François Ozon’s latt offerg is a sunny, sad gay romance that’s been pared to Call Me By Your Name – but don’t be fooled
Contents:
- SUMMER OF 85 REVIEW – FRANçOIS OZON'S SUNNY, SAD GAY TEEN ROMANCE
- ‘SUMMER OF 85’ REVIEW: A SUNNY GAY ROMANCE WH A DASH OF DPAIR
- SUMMER OF 85 REVIEW – GAY PHOTOLOVE DRAMA WH A DARK EDGE
- ‘SUMMER OF 85’ TRAILER: BASK THE BETY OF FRANçOIS OZON’S RETRO GAY ROMANCE
SUMMER OF 85 REVIEW – FRANçOIS OZON'S SUNNY, SAD GAY TEEN ROMANCE
A gay teenagers’s fleetg romance go off the rails this g-of-age story om the French director François Ozon. * summer of 85 gay movie *
Movi|‘Summer of 85’ Review: Denim Embrac and Stolen Kiss ADVERTISEMENTA gay teenagers’s fleetg romance go off the rails this g-of-age story om the French director François Box FilmsSummer of 85Directed by François OzonDrama1h 30mWhen the moody, baby-faced Alexis (Félix Lefebvre) psiz while on a solo trek off the ast of Normandy, France, he looks up and se lightng the distance acpanied by a grng, Adonis-like boy named David (Benjam Vois), his savr and the embodiment of the g two teenagers throw themselv to an tense iendship that quickly blossoms to a passnate affair filled wh blissed-out motorbike ris on untry roads, nim-padd embrac and stolen kiss between work shifts.
Frothy pop tun by ’80s bands like the Cure and Bananarama place Alexis’s swelterg astal romance the realm of starry-eyed prolific French director François Ozon wants “Summer of 85” to be more than a gay g-of-age romance the ve of “Call Me By Your Name.
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‘SUMMER OF 85’ REVIEW: A SUNNY GAY ROMANCE WH A DASH OF DPAIR
The scen are great, the actors te to their characters, but what out is a story swayg between a ksch gay teenagers' love affair and a fay drama.
SUMMER OF 85 REVIEW – GAY PHOTOLOVE DRAMA WH A DARK EDGE
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‘SUMMER OF 85’ TRAILER: BASK THE BETY OF FRANçOIS OZON’S RETRO GAY ROMANCE
Concludg, this is a medcre film to watch if you are to gay dramas and have nothg better to do. Match up the standards of east asian gay drama seri, but not the on of ma stream cematography, and is fely not Ozon's most brilliant acplishment.
In this fleetg gay romance full of youthful energy, the heat of love's first flame ign a pleasurable nostalgia for the 1980s.