Couscous di abdellatif kechiche biography

Five years after his Palme d’Or winning film Blue Is The Warmest Colour, Tunisian-French director Abdellatif Kechiche returns with his new movie Mektoub, My Love – his sixth full-length feature film to date.

Couscous di abdellatif kechiche biography

Set in the South of France, the film follows a holiday love triangle between three friends. Yet, it isn’t really the plot that so deeply moves the audience, but Kechiche’s sumptuous, sensual and luminous shots, which perfectly capture the beauty of summery nonchalance and effervescence.

Kechiche’s experimental but immediately-cult filmmaking style has made of him one of the most influential of his time, as uses his expert lens to add momentous depth and significance to life’s most simple but trivial moments.

As Mektoub, My Love opens, MILLE selects three of the filmmaker’s most iconic movies.

Games of Love and Chance, 2004 (L’Esquive)

Games of Love a