Two high school students who love each other with the freshness of their youth must face the hatred that their families of different backgrounds are being.
by Jacques Mandelbaum
Cinema being a collective sport, it is essential to know how to surround yourself. What Philippe Liret does not fail to do, entrusting to a young talent, William Shakespeare, the script for his new film. This Romeo and Juliet of present times – coming after many others and not the least – has the advantage of a real freshness, like the young annoyed couple, and even more of his luminous performers, who is heart of his intrigue. Nora Kadri (Sabrina Levoye) and Léo Cavani (Teïlo Azaïs) meet when they entered the class of 2
They don’t take long, at 16, to help each other irrepressible, with this mixture of candor and enthusiasm specific to this age. In addition to their meeting, Tarek, Nora’s brother, handler in the city’s hypermarket, is accused by one of the executives of the store of a bottle of a Grand Cru, mischief which he vigorously denies by insulting The said executive, which encourages the director of the establishment to send it back without any other form of trial.
of this unhappy incident – where a feeling of expeditious justice, even ethnic prevention – will be born – will be born a resentment which will tragically poison the beautiful emerging relationship between Nora and Léo. Because, if Tarek is Nora’s brother, Franck, the director of the hypermarket, is Léo’s father. And all of this will naturally end up. The hitchhiker, in this regard, could pass as a contingent as we progress in the plot, as the way in which Philippe Liret camps the protagonists does not leave much doubt about the triggering of the conflict that will grind them. Tarek is indeed a vivid skinned but also a disorders maker as violent as lost. As for his father, an immigrant worker confined in HLM, whose feeling of pride relates entirely to domestic tutelage, he submits the whole household to a law which is none other than his.
reciprocal contempt
On the Cavani side, which we can assume that they have also known the throes of immigration, reigns, around the villa with swimming pool, the master plan of the social ascent, not to say the Ardulted, with the consecutive anxiety of bourgeois elevation that we won with the strength of the wrist. Social contempt is clear. Racism, underlying, undefined, is possibly as a bonus. It goes without saying that the reciprocal ignorance and contempt that these environments are dedicated to only a spark to turn into hatred.
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