Intriguing, sunny but with dark implications, to see or review. From François Ozon’s “Summer ’85” to “My Summer of Love” by Paweł Pawlikowski
Inside a hot summer, of murky passions, mysteries and crimes. Between seductive and ambiguous atmospheres. There they bring us the five films that we have selected, sunny and fascinating but dark. Beautiful and intriguing films, to see or review.
Summer ’85 (2020) by François Ozon
Summer ’85 It is the film he launched Benjamin VoisinFrench actor with a liquid charm, now driven by the shaved energy of youth in Lost illusionsnow captivating and violent in We and them. At the court of Ozon it is the bewitching and elusive protagonist, who came out of nowhere and disappeared equally into thin air. It is the centerpiece of an intriguing and black homosexual love story, of exuberance, sensuality, anger and death.
The protagonist, on the other hand, is Alexis (played by Félix Lefebvre), 16 years old and clean face.
In a summer in a seaside town on the coasts of Normandy, when his boat turns upside down, he is heroically saved from the falling by the eighteen year old David (Voisin). David is of enigmatic beauty, it is overwhelming and indecipherable. Also his mother (Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi) is definitely sui generis. The friendship between the two soon turns into another, between dives into the sea, turns on the self -lock, scroll through bikes surrounded by each other, discoveries and atmospheres as a summer yellow.
My Summer of Love (2004) by PAweł Pawlikowski
Emily Bluntjust nineteen, makes himself known how we almost never seen her later: provocative and ambiguous. At the direction there is the Polish Paweł Pawlikowski, twice nominated for the Oscar for the best foreign film, with the most serious Ida (2013) e Cold War (2018). In My Summer of Love Instead, he found a seductive lightness, now voluptuous, now dark, in a work not entirely accomplished.
Blunt is a girl from high society, daughter of a British parliamentarian, self -confident and attractive. Natalie Press Instead, she plays a peer of the working class, with an older ex -alcoholic brother. Between the two soon a friendship takes place, which seems to be an attraction. It seems to hover a lesbian love story in hot light atmospheres that remains on. But the lies and illusions burst. And the wounded hearts know how to take revenge …
The pool (1969) by Jacques Deray
A Cult psychological thrillerbetween seduction and crime, in a blue coast of hot holidays, pervada of sunshine and eroticism.
Beautiful, here’s Romy Schneider And Alain Delonformer lovers in real life, couple on the screen. They interpret a failed journalist and writer respectively, who amaze her by the pool in the villa of a friend. However, her ex -boyfriend (Maurice Ronet) of her breaks out with her eighteen -year -old daughter (Jane Birkin), attractive and casual.
A drama of jealousy and hedonist desire, which inspired the controversial remake A Bigger Splash (2015) by Luca Guadagnino, set in a pantelleria of hot and wild landscapes, with the quartet of protagonists ready to explode. And with a super cast: Tilda Swinton, Matthias Schoenaerts, Ralph Fiennes and Dakota Johnson.
Ambiguity, attraction and dark instincts? François Ozon, whose 2003 films could also but only be thrown away Swimming pool it owes a lot to The pool.
Mr. Ripley’s talent (1999) by Anthony Minghella
From the yellow of Patricia Highsmith, a glossy thriller full of suspense, between the blue waters and the idyllic landscapes of Italy kissed by the sun of the late 1950s.
Jude Law He is a young and rich American playboy who gives himself to the good life, on the other side of the ocean, with his enchanting girlfriend (Gwyneth Paltrow). It has everything that the Tom Ripley of the title wants, of humble origins (played by a disturbing one Matt Damon), who passes through the former study companion, commissioned by the other father to bring him back to the States. A morbid relationship is created between the two, which reaches the exchange of identity.
The atmosphere becomes more and more threatening, between envy and adoration, lies and greed, sun and blood.
The novel was already transposed in 1960 by the French film Crime in full sun by René Clément, always with Alain Delon, sharp gaze and naked torso on the yatch, and Maurice Ronet, once again thinly rival, between desire and crime.
Morvern Callar (2002) by Lynne Ramsay
At the origins of Lynne Ramsay, British director who has terribly enchanted and distressed with the memorable … And now let’s talk about Kevin (2011) and that he was able to hit us again with A Beautiful Day – You Were Never Really here (2017).
Morvern Callar It is his second work, based on the Alan Warner’s existential novel of the same name. At the Cannes Film Festival, under the Quinzaine des Réalisateurs section, he won the youth prize to a foreign film.
The story begins in the Christmas period, sadly in Glasgow. The protagonist is a young man Samantha Mortonwhich in that year was also in Minority report by Steven Spielberg: she is the Morvern Callar of the title. Her boyfriend just committed suicide but she decides not to report the fact and make the body disappear. Find a novel that the boy had completed before killing himself and passes him for him, sending him to several publishing houses. And here is the summer, to live with his best friend on vacation in Spain, on an alienating emotional journey, drunk and sexy, in his catharsis to pain.
