The “Blue is the Warmest Color” director's latest film is problematic beyond showing a lot of young skin. As in “The Secret of the Grain,” this latest film also about very specific Franco-Tunisian ...

Abdellatif Kechiche returns with another heady, alluring sensory epic, but it lacks the narrative and emotional heft of his best work. Late in “Mektoub My Love: Canto Uno,” two characters make plans ...

After earning the Palme d’Or with his romantic drama Blue is the Warmest Color, Abdellatif Kechiche returned last fall to the Venice Film Festival with Mektoub, My Love: Canto Uno. Following sexy ...

Despite some warranted detractors targeting Abdellatif Kechiche’s male gaze in Blue in the Warmest Color, his romantic drama had no problems picking up the Palme d’Or back at Cannes a few years ago.

His latest film opens, slam in your face, with a sequence of passionate love-making: well-shot, edited and played by the actors, but almost as raw as porn. We watch, along with Amin (Shaïn Boumédine), ...

Amin, a young scriptwriter who has recently moved to Paris, heads down to his hometown on the Mediterranean for summer vacation. He spends his time at beaches and bars with childhood friends. One ...

Premiering at the Locarno Film Festival after being held six years in post-production limbo, Abdellatif Kechiche’s “Mektoub, My Love: Canto Due” certainly merits the descriptor “long-delayed.” Whether ...

Though far from the best Abdellatif Kechiche movie, “Mektoub, My Love: Canto Uno” is certainly the most Abdellatif Kechiche movie. Running just over three hours, the film is the first in a planned ...

Late in “Mektoub My Love: Canto Uno,” two characters make plans for a quiet, home-cooked pasta dinner. Just tomatoes, basil and garlic for the sauce, slow-cooked until rich and integrated in flavor: ...

'Mektoub My Love: Canto Uno,' from French-Tunisian filmmaker Abdellatif Kechiche, is his first film after his Cannes Palme d'Or title 'Blue Is the Warmest Color.' By Boyd van Hoeij The long-awaited ...