'Summer of 85' ('Ete 85'): Film Review
How can an angelic-looking, 16-year-old blond boy resist a more tenebrous, slightly older man with a silver earring, a sailboat, a motorcycle and nipples peeking from beneath his billowy 1980s shirts? It's no surprise when cute Alex falls in love with the edgy and alluring — if also ill-omened —David inSummer of 85 (Ete 85), the 19th feature from gifted French filmmaker François Ozon. Whatissurprising is how deeply this French-language adaptation of British novelist Aidan Chambers' 1982 YA classic,Dance on My Grave, feels like a full-circle moment for Ozon, as well as for audiences who have been following him since his late-1990s debut.