Still missing from action, since the infamous 2019 Cannes screening of “Mektoub: My Love — Intermezzo,” Abdelatif Kechiche seems to have found his next project.
French media, Chaos Reigns, are linking to an article that mentions Kechiche having recently directed a TV series. Could this be the same thing he was shooting in Sète this past summer? We thought it might have been a movie.
Kechiche and his editor worked on another cut of “Mektoub”, for two months, this past Spring. It seems to have a completed version, somewhere out there, ready to go. However, Will a distributor or film film step in and pick it up?
Kechiche seemed to have regrets regarding ‘Mektoub: Intermezzo,” the second film, being shown at Cannes (when the film was "not finished, not mixed, not totally color-corrected"). He has stated that if he knew at the time that the principal actors would have boycotted the premiere, he would not have shown it on the Croisette.
The sexually explicit 212 minute film has still not been released anywhere in France or the United States. It’s now the stuff of legend. Kechiche claims to have been the victim of a conspiracy orchestrated by the French media and star Ophelie Bau’s agent, adding that their sole purpose was to destroy his career.
He’s also iterated Bau was more than happy to take the role and show her body off, in all it’s beauty, and that she specifically requested a change in actors for the cunnilingus scene in order for her to shoot the scene with her then-boyfriend.
Whether you like him or not, Kechiche had a reputation as one of the filmmakers working in France, he’s always had a keen eye for the way people speak and act in real life. He even won the Palme d’Or in 2013 for “Blue is the Warmest Color.”