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Mektoub, My Love: Canto Due (2025)

Mektoub, My Love: Canto Due poster
Directed by
Abdellatif Kechiche
Genre
romantic drama
Country
France
Rated
TP
Rating
6.6 of 10 from 19 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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How it feels

This film continues the story of a young man navigating love and desire in the south of France. It follows his relationships and the complicated dynamics between friends over a summer.

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What happens

Mektoub, My Love: Canto Due is a 2025 French romantic drama film produced, co-written, and directed by Abdellatif Kechiche. The film is the third and final installment in Kechiche's Mektoub, My Love series, following Canto Uno (2017) and Intermezzo (2019). As its predecessors, it is based on 2011 novel La Blessure, la vraie by François Bégaudeau. It stars Shaïn Boumedine, Ophélie Bau, Salim Kechiouche, Jessica Pennington and Andre Jacobs. The film had its world premiere in the main competition of the 78th Locarno Film Festival on 9 August 2025, where it was nominated for the Golden Leopard, and received positive reviews by the French press. At the 31st Lumière Awards, it was nominated for Best Film, Best Director and Best Female Revelation (Pennington). It was theatrically released in France on 3 December by Pathé. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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