Noémie Merlant is a French acting star who helped produce two years ago “Portrait of the Burning Lady” by Céline Sciamma Shine at the Cannes Film Festival. Now, she offers a side pleasure as a film festival with the fascinating but flawed director virgin, here as a special screening. She and her partner, the emerging Roma actor Gimi-Nicolae Novaci (Gimi-Nicolae Novaci) co-wrote the film. She discovered and played a non-Chinese character in Shakira. Professionals, this is a short film about the Gypsy community in Paris directed by her in 2019. There is a clear screen chemistry between them, and sometimes Mi Iubita (Romanian “my love”) Mon Amour is almost like calling me by your name.
Melante plays Jenny, a young woman who works in the film industry and is about to get married. She went to Romania with a group of girlfriends for a bold hen weekend. But when their car was stolen at the gas station, Jenny and her team found themselves dependent on a family of strangers who accepted them, played by Novach and his relatives. Nino (Novaci) is an inspiring beautiful and sweet boy, almost like a young Cillian Murphy, he told the amused young woman that he was 21 years old, but one day, when his mom and dad announced Nino 17 On his birthday, he was brutally beaten. Novach couldn’t stop smiling with Jenny’s company, he obviously had a good impression of her. There is some major flirtation, but also major drama, because Nino’s family is being threatened by the local gang. Finally, Jenny and others finally took the train to the original seaside destination, and Nino also impulsively jumped on the boat with them.
I like the scene between Jenny and Nino, when she urged him on the number of women he had sex with him-and whether that number was actually “zero”. This is very fascinating, because the poor, innocent puppy-like Nino obviously wants to know whether to invent the girlfriend of the past, or “recognize his virginity, which is more likely to make him and Jenny together.” “Inevitably, Jenny’s fiance suddenly appeared in Romania.
Mi Iubita Mon Amour works best when people are hanging out, talking and laughing; in theory, these static dialogue scenes should be unremarkable, but in fact they are very attractive, especially when Nino’s father emotionally tells women How much suffering they have suffered. That scene, probably improvised, looks very real. But when the gangsters show up, it is less convincing, and their ultimate goal seems to be to provide a false dramatic moment at the end. The love story of Melant and Kovac finally did not end well. Maybe they think it is impossible in art or life. This is a fascinating work by Melante, who has a real sense of directing a group of actors.
