Synopsis
It's the end of summer vacation for Amin. The young photographer spends cozy evenings with Charlotte, the ex-girlfriend of his Casanova cousin. She talks to him about literature, he photographs her. Nobody knows that they see each other, especially not Ophélie, his childhood friend, who instead confides her troubles to Amin : her father wants her to take over the family farm, her fiancé Clement will return soon from Iraq for their wedding, she is pregnant with Tony’s baby, and Tony wants to keep their affair secret instead of having a serious relationship. Ophélie constantly contemplates her choices : would it be better to get an abortion in secret and marry Clement or to follow her maternal instinct and keep the child, perhaps seeking refuge with Amin in Paris?
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Cast
- Lou LuttiauCéline
- Alexia ChardardCharlotte
- Shaïn BoumedineAmin
- Ophélie BauOphélie
- Salim KéchioucheTony
- Hafsia HerziCamélia
- Marie BernardMarie
- Roméo de Lacour
- Sarah JagueSarah la serveuse
Recommendations
- 42
IndieWire
No filmmaker has ever loved anything as much as Abdellatif Kechiche loves butts. - 40
The Guardian
Bizarre, colossally self-indulgent ... This one feels as if Kechiche has simply given us three-and-a-half hours of his unused beach and nightclub footage from the first film. - 30
Screen Daily
While it’s important to have seen Canto Uno in order to savour Intermezzo, this film in itself doesn’t seem remotely essential. - 25
The A.V. Club
A baffling passion project whose cruelly protracted runtime is eclipsed only by the monumentally tedious way it fills it. - 20
The Telegraph
In short, it’s a bum trip and then some. Kechiche has always been an admirer of the female posterior, but here he shifts styles into what could be called gluteus maximalism, filling the screen with frantically gyrating hindquarters for literal hours on end. - 10
TheWrap
Toxically indulgent ... Add up nothing but the shots of jiggling butts and you’ll have an hour’s worth of footage. - 10
Variety
Vacuous, almost spitefully monotonous ... A dismaying creative dead end from an abundantly gifted filmmaker, the new film escalates its predecessor’s cheeky protest to a form of acute auteur trolling. - 0
The Hollywood Reporter
It is not just a tough sit; it is nearly impossible to get through.
