Mektoub, My Love: Canto Uno

2018 · 174 min · FR · 6.7 (349 votes)

Dir. Abdellatif Kechiche · Starring Shaïn Boumedine, Ophélie Bau, Salim Kéchiouche, Lou Luttiau, Alexia Chardard, Hafsia Herzi · Music Rémi Barbot · Mektoub, My Love Collection

“For love, only Mektoub can decide.”

RomanceDrama

Amin, an aspiring screenwriter living in Paris, returns home for the summer, in Sète, South of France. It is a time of reconnecting with his family and his childhood friends. Together with his cousin Tony and his best friend Ophélie, he spends his time between the Tunisian restaurant run by his parents, the local bars and the beaches frequented by girls on holiday.

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A sun-drenched, languid summer unfolds with intoxicating sensuality and the bittersweet ache of youth. It's a cinematic reverie, a hazy memory of first loves and fleeting desires under the Mediterranean sun.

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