Souhoila Yacoub

Veteran filmmaker Philippe Garrel once again fashions a pinpoint precise and economical study of young love and its prevarications, which ever so gradually blossoms into an emotionally resonant moral tale. Handsome Luc, following in his aging father's footsteps to study the craft of furniture joining, doesn't appear to have any trouble meeting and dating women; as the film opens he's aggressively courting Djemila at a Paris bus stop. Skeptical yet...