THE OPINION OF THE “WORLD” – NOT TO BE MISSED
Here is an adventurous film, a first feature film which assumes the cliché of the solar film in Marseille, summer on the beach, before shaking off the towel and going elsewhere. Within an hour and fifteen minutes, summer eternity, by Emilie Aussel, succeeds in causing a light bubble to implode, by confronting a group of young revelers with disappearance and mourning. They thought they were immortal, united forever, here they are falling from their pedestal, landing with a crash in the world of the suffering.
For Lola, love is a suspended moment, necessarily brief, where two beings believe they are gods.
Summer is coming to the zenith for Lise (Agathe Talrich), long brown hair and mother-of-pearl complexion: she has just obtained her baccalaureate and is spending her days with Lola (Marcia Feugeas), her best friend, Malo (Matthieu Lucci) , her lover and accomplice, and all the other friends, like Elias (Louis Pluton), Eve (Rose Timbert), Soa (Safinah Mixty Mihidjay)… The air is hot as in Mektoub, My Love. canto uno (2017), by Abdellatif Kechiche. But, more than sex, the director endeavors to film this unique fluid circulating inside a strip, where each banal moment can reach the sublime. Where the fatigue of the aftermath of a party triggers liberating laughter, between two deep sentences. Because strong things are said to each other, casually: thus, for Lola, love is a suspended moment, necessarily brief, where two beings believe they are gods. But it’s a decoy, she says, since we’re only humans.
The director, born in 1980, does not abuse sequences of smoke and rosé. Very quickly, the film changes. One evening, Malo prolongs the swim with Lola and she does not emerge from the dark waters. To believe that a jealous god descended from Olympus to slip among young mortals. The filmmaker does not hide her attraction for mythology and, in front of her camera, the Palais Longchamp in Marseille, a recurring character in the film, takes on the air of an ancient theatre.
Camera interviews
Nothing will be known of Lola’s death, and besides, no adult whatsoever (investigator, parent) appears in the story. Emilie Aussel, who co-wrote the film with novelist Emmanuelle Bayamack-Tam and screenwriter Yacine Badday, focuses on the trajectory of Lise, struck by the death of her girlfriend. The young girl crosses the city, strangely silent, meets a group of performers in full creation, slightly older than her. Her loneliness mingles with their doubts, and summer eternity turns out to be more daring, more mysterious too, integrating face-to-face interviews with the actors.
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