Mektoub, My Love – Canto Uno

Directed by

Abdellatif Kechiche

28 March
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10:00
  • Teatro Kursaal Santalucia
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Event details

DIRECTOR:

Abdellatif Kechiche

RUNNING TIME:

183 minutes

CAST:

Shain Boumedine, Ophélie Baufle, Salim Kechiouche, Lou Luttiau, Alexia Chardard

COUNTRY:

France

YEAR OF PRODUCTION:

2017

Amin, an aspiring screenwriter living in Paris, returns for the summer to his hometown, a fishing community in the south of France.
An opportunity to reconnect with family and childhood friends. Accompanied by his cousin Tony and his best friend Ophelie, Amin spends his time between his parents’ Tunisian restaurant, the local bars and the beach frequented by girls on holiday. Enchanted by the many female figures around him, Amin is captivated by these summer sirens, in contrast to his Dionysian cousin who throws himself into the euphoria of the flesh. Armed with his camera and guided by the dazzling light of the Mediterranean coast, Amin pursues his philosophical quest by throwing himself into writing his screenplays. But when the time for love arrives, only fate, only the Mektoub, can decide.

Abdellatif Kechiche

Abdellatif Kechiche is one of the most influential figures in contemporary European cinema. A Franco-Tunisian director, screenwriter and actor, winner of the Palme d’Or at Cannes and a point of reference for a generation of filmmakers, Kechiche has built a cinematic style that delves into social dynamics and human relationships, whilst also questioning the present through an authorial gaze that explores bodies and obsessions. The BIF&ST presents a retrospective of seven of the director’s films: Tutta colpa di Voltaire (2000), La schivata (2003), Cous Cous (2007), Venere nera (2010), La vita di Adele (2013), Mektoub, my love – Canto uno (2017) and the Italian premiere of Mektoub, my love – Canto due (2025), the highly anticipated new chapter in Kechiche’s magnum opus, which takes us back to the Mediterranean south of France amidst the hopes and turmoil of youth in the 1990s.

Filmography

Tutta colpa di Voltaire, La schivata, Cous Cous, Venere nera, La vita di Adele, Mektoub, my love – Canto uno, Mektoub, my love – Canto due