Hmmm so here we have a man called Abdellatif making a film in which Tunisians and French Arabs have a field day with the local lasses in Sète the hometown of Paul Valéry; and the local lasses cannot get enough ; kinda "She gotta have it" on the Med.

hmmm now I am well aware that there is a sequel already out titled Mektoub, My Love: Intermezzo but and I have a suggestion for a third: hear me out ...

How about Jean-Pierre & Jean-Michel both of them cousins have a field day in Tunis; it could start with a steamy no-holds barred sex scene lasting over 6 minutes in which Noura rides Jean-Pierre in total abandon; the filmmaker making sure there is no corner of Noura we do not enjoy as a visual offering ... simply to match the opening scene of Mektoub, My Love: Canto Uno

But even not being a qualified seer I do not think this film is in the pipeline. We wonder why. So this irks throughout the entire 3 hours and will carry on irking.

And for the aforementioned reasons I really wanted to dislike this film even hate it.

BUT I simply had to get over myself as Abdellatif Kechiche here shows himself to be capable of quasi-Rohmerian skills of storytelling ... so the characters are a bit vapid mostly middle-class students; drifting; the main character did a year of Medicine in Paris but is now back at mum's whiling away the summer ... so here we are within all the Rohmerian perimeters; folks vaguely in love with folks; indecision; air-headedness; open-endedness; looseness; detachment even; and Abdellatif Kechiche does all this very well indeed

He can be accused of voyeurism here and there is plenty of that; main actress Ophélie Bau has been named promising new actress; one could be concerned that with a gambit of that nature there is little she could now "artistically" offer the viewer of following flix but time will tell.

It is in the final analysis an ode to sensuality and the female form and ode to pleasure and The Med; it seems the director has a keen eye for the female form with a propensity to let the camera drift to the derriere of his acting ladies; so all cross-cultural shenanigans put aside it is quite a successful work ... see what you think ...

In many ways this is a beautiful film primarily because of the beautiful actresses and setting and the relaxed nature of the film. Unlike others I found that there was an underlying love story hidden in the film. There was also an underlying misogyny with fathers openly hitting on the young women which gave the film a dark side which was at times uncomfortable. Amin returns from university in Paris during the summer holidays to find Orphelie, the object of his desires, having sex with his cousin Tony, a very unsavoury character. It is apparent that Orphelie's fiancée, Clement, who is away on assignment with the French navy, trusts Amin but not Tony. The film concentrates for a lot of the time on the relaxed and loving relationship between Amin and Orphelie. It is obvious that they are made for each other. Whilst having many opportunities to have romances with the other girls in the film Amin is polite but obviously not interested. Near the end there is a nightclub scene where he only has eyes for Orphelie even though the gorgeous Celine and others obviously want him. In the end he befriends Charlotte, an Orphelie lookalike, who has had her heart broken by Tony. Where this may lead we may never find out.

It could be an hour instead of a 3 hours movie it spend half an hour to show a sheep born or 20 minutes to watch people dance in a bar.the movie trying hard to show all the girls like Amin. The lovely boy that I think he wasn't as lovely as what they think.