Pas une critique!!!

The "crisis" of a reserved boy who will not allow himself to get laid, with touches of identity questions (loss of "his" culture, as a french son of immigrants), that will inevitably be solved... when, admitting his desire (following an immediate, constant and cristal clear obsession) he'll give in to his impulse and accept his "love" (read hormonal/sex.infatuation) , engaging a conversation with his father over the course of this last queue of events.

The "identity"/culture question, while proving key for the outcome, is never before tackled on a personal scale (the one that happens to matter).
The film is able to mention this question of heritage through the post-pubertal hormonal surge it tells thanks to using arab poetry and litteratures (about courtly love VS more "concrete" things), since the action is set among litterature students.

For such a story of desire, the camera is obviously glued to the bodies of its subjects.

Score: ?/10
Enjoyment: -5/5
Much ado about nothing (the "nothing" being the big question of the first time, and to enlarge a bit, the unavoidable opening of shy people) but, hey...

It's original because "it's a male that makes a big thing of the eventual loss of his virginity, when it's supposed to be a female trait" in fictions.

(Just like the hero, I'm also not an adept of calling the origin of his parents "his" culture.)

The Q&A was much more interesting.
Mentioned references:
- Mauvais Sang (visuals, scene)
- Two Lovers (acting)
- Il bell'Antonio (and other films around men's block, that usually happen to be medical).