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 – GAY PHOTOLOVE DRAMA WH A DARK EDGE
- ‘SUMMER OF 85’ REVIEW: A SUNNY GAY ROMANCE WH A DASH OF DPAIR
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. * is summer of 85 gay *
AdvertisementSKIP 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. Romanc that ploy retrogra views on homosexualy as a nvenient tool for nflict, “Summer of 85” s vibrant throwback athetic to suate two gay men a cultural fantasy typilly rerved for straight upl: the date at the rnival that ends a fistfight wh an embtered “ex, ” the star-crossed lovers who sneak around and make morbid, lifelong the end of the film, reflectg on his time wh David, Alexis realiz how he has bee a character a fantastic story — a story full of trigue and drama, y, but also one that is light and joyo.
SUMMER OF 85 REVIEW – GAY PHOTOLOVE DRAMA WH A DARK EDGE
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‘SUMMER OF 85’ REVIEW: A SUNNY GAY ROMANCE WH A DASH OF DPAIR
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Bee all the love stori at that time, pecially gay love stori, were very dark. ‘Summer of 85’ Review: A Sunny Gay Romance Wh a Dash of Dpair.