Lila, from Paris, is trying to recover from a painful breakup. Here is the script as simple as it is effective for You Deserve a Love, Hafsia Herzi’s first feature film. With the energy of the first times, that of the first films and the first loves, the director tells us about the earthmoving that a heartache can cause and touches as much on the universal as on our most intimate emotivity. others have attempted to paint a romantic portrait of a generation and its complex relationship to sex and feelings, the director, then 32 years old, seems to master her subject from the heart, which she was able to magnify thanks to her very contemporary. Between Kechiche and Maïwenn, New Wave atmosphere, Hafsia Herzi films and embodies Lila’s wandering love, dumped by her lost boyfriend and only faithful to infidelity, who recovers supported by her friends, crying, flirting and experimenting. From her master – the one who revealed her on the big screen in The Seed and the Mule – she inherited the glibness and the art of knowing how to film the bodies, that of women and that of men. Like Maïwenn, she was able to capture the toxicity of love as closely as possible. From the New Wave, she adopts the simplicity of the scenario and the staging. And from Frida Khalo, she borrows the name of her famous poem, title and emotional climax of the film. , incredible Djanis Bouzyani, a true light of the film thanks to his honesty, both scathing, hilarious but necessary to bring the young girl in tears out of her torpor. Sortez les tissues, You deserve a love is available free of charge on catch-up television on Arte .TV.
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