Few filmmakers capture desire on screen as well as Kechiche. [Full review in French]

| Mar 2, 2020

Kechiche's experiential aesthetic and forensic gaze over the faces, bodies and inner yearnings of his characters is even more tangible here than in Blue is the Warmest Colour.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 30, 2019

There is a moral void in the film - or at least a lack of clarity.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Feb 19, 2019

Like the characters, Mektoub, My Love is itself apparently aimless, often irritating, prone to treading water -- indeed, it could be accused of being one long longueur. But I found plenty to admire in it.

| Feb 19, 2019

The dawdling is tedious at times, and the camera's attentions to young women don't always seem artistically valid, yet Kechiche's gift for naturalism still has power: the characters draw you in.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 18, 2019

Above all, Mektoub is a terrific study of the fine art of flirting: of girls and girls, and girls and boys (but never, it seems, boys and boys) and the shifts in power that occur between them as they drink, dance, smile and shrug.

| Feb 16, 2019

Kechiche's camera consistently ogles his female cast but he remains a terrific director of actors, the intimacy and authenticity conveying a real lust for life to sweeten the hefty running time.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 16, 2019

Kechiche is quite brilliant at using stretches of time to create space for actors to let their characters breathe.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 16, 2019

It's leery and defiant. But also creepy and dull.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Feb 15, 2019

A film in which every dull scene stretches on for five times longer than it needs to. Painful.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Feb 14, 2019

One of the most self indulgent auteur efforts in recent memory. It's an absolute chore to sit through, and the threat of a sequel is more than likely to kill off the director's career altogether.

| Feb 13, 2019

By the close I didn't want to see any more of this film. But by the following day I was still seeing it in my head.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 13, 2019

A 90s summer-romance pastoral of epic length and sexiness, marinaded in sunshine.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 13, 2019

While the narrative is far too unstructured for such a long movie, Kechiche never lets the audience get bored.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Feb 12, 2019

A boisterous ode to life, love and youth, Mektoub has moments that charm and beguile but not enough to justify a three-hour running time...

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 11, 2019

A genuine lust for life colours Kechiche's filmmaking; in this case, his joie de vivre could stand to be a tiny bit more selective.

| Jan 17, 2019

Intoxicatingly experiential.

| Oct 31, 2018

[Abdellatif Kechiche] seems unable to focus on the essence of the non-story he tells, which seems to circle restlessly, its concentration constantly distracted as characters vie loudly and exuberantly for the camera's attention.

| Mar 8, 2018

An unruly, polymorphously perverse river of sensations, plunging the willing viewer into a roiling mass of pungent evocations.

| Sep 25, 2017

Though sprawling in length, the film is quite thin as far as plot goes...

| Original Score: C- | Sep 12, 2017