Under the southern sun, girls and boys live their youth to the fullest. Fifteen years after “L’Esquive”, an ode to the golden age, where Renoir joined Marivaux.
By Jacques Morice
Published on October 23, 2024 at 12:29 p.m.
ANDSummer 1994, Sète. They have fun at the beach, in bars, in clubs. They are 20 years old, come from Paris, Nice or Tunisia. Couples form, become deformed, jealousy creeps in. Charlotte, the brunette, falls in love and suffers, while Céline, the blonde, goes from a boy to a girl. Among the gang, there is Amin, Adonis who attracts all the girls, but doesn’t sleep…
All are of a luminous, voluptuous, pearly beauty. Like Auguste Renoir, the painter explicitly cited, the filmmaker celebrates bodies as gods of Olympus. Above all, he favors women, their sensitivity, their power. The man next to him seems more elusive. Like Amin, who
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