'Summer of 85' review: nostalgia-packed tragedy full of jumbled emotions
Summer of 85 (2020) (Review)
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Summer of 85 (2020)
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Summer of 85 movie review & film summary (2021)
Summer of 85. As "Summer of 85" opens, our narrator, 16-year-old Alex ( Félix Lefebvre) expresses an interest in death "with a capital D.". His voice sounds disinterested, which is the first sign of trouble as we have to listen to him for the entire movie. The second sign of trouble occurs when Alex warns us that we might want to stop ...
Summer of 85
Jun 22, 2021. In Summer of 85 (Été 85), François Ozon puts his own spin on Aidan Chambers' coming-of-age novel Dance On My Grave, crafting a complex, meaningful story about love, loss and ...
'Summer of 85' Review: Denim Embraces and Stolen Kisses
Toward the end of the film, reflecting on his time with David, Alexis realizes how he has become a character in a fantastic story — a story full of intrigue and drama, yes, but also one that is ...
'Summer of 85' Review
François Ozon's 'Summer of 85': Film Review. François Ozon's latest, about a gay summer fling that ends in tragedy, is a sexy throwback to such early films as 'Criminal Lovers' and ...
'Summer of 85' Movie Review: Directed by Francois Ozon
François Ozon's Summer of 85 — which adapts the YA novel 'Dance on My Grave,' by Aidan Chambers — is moving but contained affair. 'Summer of 85' Movie Review: Directed by Francois Ozon
'Summer of 85' review: François Ozon movingly sums up career
Review: 'Summer of 85' is a sexy, tragic romance — and a moving career summary for François Ozon. Félix Lefebvre, left, and Benjamin Voisin in the movie "Summer of 85.". (Music Box ...
Summer of 85
Summer of 85 ranks as one of Ozons best films, both in the way it fuses genres, and in the way it layers its characters. Full Review | Original Score: 4/4 | Mar 13, 2022. A sun bronzed burst of ...
Summer of 85 Review: Fun, Sun and French Ennui
François Ozon's Summer of 85 opens on a Sunset Boulevard riff before segueing into a teen movie riff: The Cure's "In Between Days" plays over the foreground, a crane shot swoops and rises ...
'Summer of 85' review: enchanting, nostalgia-packed tragedy full of
A sweltering summer romance set in mid-1980s Normandy which balances thematic darkness with exhilarating liberation, Summer of 85 is the latest film from François Ozon (8 femmes, Swimming Pool).
Summer of 85, review: how first love can feel like a matter of life-and
For most of its opening half, Summer of 85 operates in a wistful, even sentimental mode. The Cure and Rod Stewart loom large on the soundtrack, while the colour palette is mostly alluring pastel ...
'Summer of 85' Review: François Ozon Returns with a Scintillating
Editor's note: This review was originally published at the 2020 Toronto International Film Festival. Music Box Films releases the film in select theaters on Friday, June 18.
Summer of 85
Generally Favorable Based on 24 Critic Reviews. 65. 67% Positive 16 Reviews. 29% Mixed 7 Reviews. 4% Negative 1 Review. All Reviews; ... Summer of 85 is also one of Ozon's most moving films to date. Read More By Elena Lazic FULL REVIEW. 80. ... Summer of 85 plays like a bad parody of movies like Love Story and Summer of '42, stories where ...
Summer Of 85 Review
Summer Of 85 Review. 1980s Normandy. Teenager Alex (Félix Lefebvre) meets tall, dark and handsome David (Benjamin Voisin) after the latter rescues the former during a sailing snafu. The pair ...
Summer of 85 review
The naturalism of setting in this Normandy seaside town - it seems a world away from what the novel's original location, Southend-on-Sea, might have felt like at the time - is as persuasive as the naturalness of the film's playing. François Ozon's unforced gay youth romance has a winning naturalness. Film review by Tom Birchenough.
Summer of '85 review
Summer of '85 does not stray from that tradition, but centring on a love affair between two young men, it might be the director's most explicitly gay film to date, which has a whole host of implications for the tone of the film. The queerness of Ozon's films most often shines through his morbid interest in stories of straight people ...
Summer of 85 Movie Review
Kids say: Not yet rated Rate movie. Based on the British YA novel Dance on My Grave by Aidan Chambers, director François Ozon transports this coming-of age drama to a French seaside town in the 1980s. Summer of 85 has a strong sense of nostalgia with songs from the likes of The Cure and Rod Stewart only adding to the feeling of a time gone by.
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SUMMER OF 85. Alexis (Félix Lefebvre) is fascinated by death. Make that Death, with a capital D, as he clarifies. It all started with learning about the mummies of ancient Egypt, but this past summer, he was finally able to see a corpse in person. As Alexis—or Alex, as he likes to be called after the summer recounted here—sits in a police ...
'Summer of 85' Review: A Sunny Gay Romance With a Dash of Despair
François Ozon's Summer of '85 — which adapts the YA novel Dance on My Grave, by Aidan Chambers — is moving but contained affair, aflush with overwhelming feeling but also distant from that feeling, probing but not always revealing, sensuous and charismatic but not always easy to like.It's a gay teen romance out of France, equal parts sun-drenched coastal pas de deux between an ...
'Summer of 85' ('Été 85') Review
French auteur François Ozon's 'Summer of 85,' which comes with the Cannes 2020 label, relocates Aidan Chambers' novel 'Dance on My Grave' to sun-dappled Normandy. 'Summer of 85' ('Été 85') Review
Summer of 85
Summer of 85 (French: Été 85) is a 2020 romantic drama film written and directed by François Ozon, ... Summer of 85 holds an 80% approval rating on review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, based on 101 reviews, with an average of 6.5/10. The site's critical consensus reads, ...
Movie Review: 'Summer of 85' Transcends Politics of AIDS
Summer of 85 is among Ozon's most impressive movies. Tony Kushner's overwrought Angels in America gratuitously politicized the AIDS crisis and is considered definitive, but Summer of 85 ...
'Summer of 85' review: This French tale of first love takes a
Movies Ann Hornaday Michael O'Sullivan. ... Review by Ann Hornaday. June 23, 2021 at 11:00 a.m. EDT (2.5 stars) ... "Summer of 85" is a period piece, and Ozon gratifyingly avoids putting ...
Summer of 85
Reviewed by Li👩🏻🇺🇸. Technical:4/5. It's not difficult to enjoy Summer of 85, an LGBTQ film that just screened at Toronto International Film Festival last weekend. In adapting Aidan Chambers' 1982 novel titled Dance On My Grave,director François Ozon employs powerful devices of nostalgia and sun-hazy Normandy beaches to craft a ...
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Summer of 85. As "Summer of 85" opens, our narrator, 16-year-old Alex ( Félix Lefebvre) expresses an interest in death "with a capital D.". His voice sounds disinterested, which is the first sign of trouble as we have to listen to him for the entire movie. The second sign of trouble occurs when Alex warns us that we might want to stop ...
Jun 22, 2021. In Summer of 85 (Été 85), François Ozon puts his own spin on Aidan Chambers' coming-of-age novel Dance On My Grave, crafting a complex, meaningful story about love, loss and ...
Toward the end of the film, reflecting on his time with David, Alexis realizes how he has become a character in a fantastic story — a story full of intrigue and drama, yes, but also one that is ...
François Ozon's 'Summer of 85': Film Review. François Ozon's latest, about a gay summer fling that ends in tragedy, is a sexy throwback to such early films as 'Criminal Lovers' and ...
François Ozon's Summer of 85 — which adapts the YA novel 'Dance on My Grave,' by Aidan Chambers — is moving but contained affair. 'Summer of 85' Movie Review: Directed by Francois Ozon
Review: 'Summer of 85' is a sexy, tragic romance — and a moving career summary for François Ozon. Félix Lefebvre, left, and Benjamin Voisin in the movie "Summer of 85.". (Music Box ...
Summer of 85 ranks as one of Ozons best films, both in the way it fuses genres, and in the way it layers its characters. Full Review | Original Score: 4/4 | Mar 13, 2022. A sun bronzed burst of ...
François Ozon's Summer of 85 opens on a Sunset Boulevard riff before segueing into a teen movie riff: The Cure's "In Between Days" plays over the foreground, a crane shot swoops and rises ...
A sweltering summer romance set in mid-1980s Normandy which balances thematic darkness with exhilarating liberation, Summer of 85 is the latest film from François Ozon (8 femmes, Swimming Pool).
For most of its opening half, Summer of 85 operates in a wistful, even sentimental mode. The Cure and Rod Stewart loom large on the soundtrack, while the colour palette is mostly alluring pastel ...
Editor's note: This review was originally published at the 2020 Toronto International Film Festival. Music Box Films releases the film in select theaters on Friday, June 18.
Generally Favorable Based on 24 Critic Reviews. 65. 67% Positive 16 Reviews. 29% Mixed 7 Reviews. 4% Negative 1 Review. All Reviews; ... Summer of 85 is also one of Ozon's most moving films to date. Read More By Elena Lazic FULL REVIEW. 80. ... Summer of 85 plays like a bad parody of movies like Love Story and Summer of '42, stories where ...
Summer Of 85 Review. 1980s Normandy. Teenager Alex (Félix Lefebvre) meets tall, dark and handsome David (Benjamin Voisin) after the latter rescues the former during a sailing snafu. The pair ...
The naturalism of setting in this Normandy seaside town - it seems a world away from what the novel's original location, Southend-on-Sea, might have felt like at the time - is as persuasive as the naturalness of the film's playing. François Ozon's unforced gay youth romance has a winning naturalness. Film review by Tom Birchenough.
Summer of '85 does not stray from that tradition, but centring on a love affair between two young men, it might be the director's most explicitly gay film to date, which has a whole host of implications for the tone of the film. The queerness of Ozon's films most often shines through his morbid interest in stories of straight people ...
Kids say: Not yet rated Rate movie. Based on the British YA novel Dance on My Grave by Aidan Chambers, director François Ozon transports this coming-of age drama to a French seaside town in the 1980s. Summer of 85 has a strong sense of nostalgia with songs from the likes of The Cure and Rod Stewart only adding to the feeling of a time gone by.
SUMMER OF 85. Alexis (Félix Lefebvre) is fascinated by death. Make that Death, with a capital D, as he clarifies. It all started with learning about the mummies of ancient Egypt, but this past summer, he was finally able to see a corpse in person. As Alexis—or Alex, as he likes to be called after the summer recounted here—sits in a police ...
François Ozon's Summer of '85 — which adapts the YA novel Dance on My Grave, by Aidan Chambers — is moving but contained affair, aflush with overwhelming feeling but also distant from that feeling, probing but not always revealing, sensuous and charismatic but not always easy to like.It's a gay teen romance out of France, equal parts sun-drenched coastal pas de deux between an ...
French auteur François Ozon's 'Summer of 85,' which comes with the Cannes 2020 label, relocates Aidan Chambers' novel 'Dance on My Grave' to sun-dappled Normandy. 'Summer of 85' ('Été 85') Review
Summer of 85 (French: Été 85) is a 2020 romantic drama film written and directed by François Ozon, ... Summer of 85 holds an 80% approval rating on review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, based on 101 reviews, with an average of 6.5/10. The site's critical consensus reads, ...
Summer of 85 is among Ozon's most impressive movies. Tony Kushner's overwrought Angels in America gratuitously politicized the AIDS crisis and is considered definitive, but Summer of 85 ...
Movies Ann Hornaday Michael O'Sullivan. ... Review by Ann Hornaday. June 23, 2021 at 11:00 a.m. EDT (2.5 stars) ... "Summer of 85" is a period piece, and Ozon gratifyingly avoids putting ...
Reviewed by Li👩🏻🇺🇸. Technical:4/5. It's not difficult to enjoy Summer of 85, an LGBTQ film that just screened at Toronto International Film Festival last weekend. In adapting Aidan Chambers' 1982 novel titled Dance On My Grave,director François Ozon employs powerful devices of nostalgia and sun-hazy Normandy beaches to craft a ...