Film Review: “Summer of 85” unfurls a gay love story with sinister overtones
Summer of 85 (★★★★☆) signals a clear warning from the start that whatever friendship or romance blossoms between teens Alexis and David, it won’t end well for at least one of them. Adapting British author Aidan Chambers’ young-adult novel Dance on My Grave, published in 1982, Ozon unfurls their love story with the sinister overtones of a deadly mystery.Historically speaking, something deadly was coming for them and bright young things like the boys in the original novel, who would have had no concept of HIV and AIDS looming at the dawn of the decade.