Mektoub, My Love: Canto Uno
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59
METASCORE
Mixed or average reviews based on 9 Critic Reviews
Positive:
3
Mixed:
6
Negative:
0

Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
80
The GuardianPeter BradshawFeb 13, 2019
It spends its time among unfeasibly beautiful young people in microscopically tiny swimming costumes, and moves with them in a trance of heightened physicality, drifting across beaches, bars and dancefloors. The mood is dreamy unseriousness qualified occasionally by temporary stabs of jealousy or misery. The sexiness isn’t promiscuous exactly; more directionless. Read full review
70
Screen DailyLee Marshall
Kechiche has developed an almost unique ability to give surfaces depth through his manipulation of dramatic beats and a quality of empathy that seems built into the roving camera eye. Read full review
67
The PlaylistJessica Kiang
Mektoub titillates without ever delivering the up-to-your-eyes immersion that the filmmaker’s best work deals in, and after three long hours, nobody’s changed, nobody’s learned anything and no one’s grown any older, except the audience. Read full review
60
EmpireIan FreerFeb 18, 2019
It goes nowhere fast and Kechiche’s camera consistently ogles his female cast but he remains a terrific director of actors, the intimacy and authenticity conveying a real lust for life to sweeten the hefty running time. Read full review
60
The Observer (UK)Simran HansFeb 16, 2019
Kechiche is quite brilliant at using stretches of time to create space for actors to let their characters breathe. It’s a sleight of hand that makes the intimacy on screen seem as though it’s unfolding organically, deployed to particularly dexterous effect in one sequence that takes place in a bar. Read full review
60
CineVueJohn Bleasdale
Mektoub My Love is an often beguiling work, drenched in beauty and humour and an inclusive warmth. Read full review
60
VarietyGuy Lodge
Another gorgeous three-hour study of young, attractively housed hearts in often turbulent motion, Mektoub is a frequently seductive sensory epic of equivalent ambition, yet despite its woozily pleasurable set pieces, the fraught emotions binding them are less urgent, and the perspective of its protagonist far less immediate. Read full review
50
The Hollywood ReporterBoyd van Hoeij
Though it is convincingly played and sensually shot, the film has about as much narrative as the characters have parts of their bodies covered on the beach. Read full review
42
IndieWireBen Croll
“Mektoub, My Love” is never about anything more than its own style. Read full review
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