CRITIQUE – Six years later The Great Baththe actor-director returns with a second film in the form of an epic romance combining social drama, heist film, melodrama, romantic and musical comedy.
In the cinema, love stories usually end badly. With Love phewGilles Lellouche decided that things would be different. For his second film, he defies all the laws of cinema, rebels against all conventions, turns against all conventions. Six years later The Great Bath (2018) and its 4 million admissions, the actor-director moves away from his bittersweet comedy about failing masculinity laid bare (or at least in underwear) to dive into another great bath, that of passion overflowing between two beings who are completely opposed. A long-standing project, patiently matured, this free adaptation of the novel by Dubliner Neville Thompson Jackie Loves Johnser OK ? is now anchored in a port city in the north of France.
Precocious lovers in high school, the studious bourgeoisie Jackie (Mallory Wanecque) and the little boss Clotaire (Malik Frikah), the son of a worker, first experience this great love which fell on them like lightning. The sweet…
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