Bang Gang (A Modern Love Story) ***
Dir: Eva Husson.
With: Marilyn Lima, Daisy Broom, Finnegan Oldfield, Lorenzo Lefebvre. 98 mins.
Cert: 18
That self-correcting
title, balancing aggressive come-on with wistful parenthesis, is about right.
French writer-director Eva Husson here issues a dreamy-tender cautionary tale,
unfolding over one long, sticky summer, in which merry high-schoolers pair off
to poke one another, online and IRL; it’s all fun and games until the onset of
syphilis. As her teens retreat into one lad’s unparented pad – oblivious to
external events, like the In the Realm of
the Senses lovers – Husson carefully situates their experiments within a
wider, natural context: this filmmaker’s light, sweet touch is such she can
even venture a funny subplot involving the school hamster without straying into
urban legend territory. Satisfaction may depend on your desire to spend 90
minutes around blankly suggestible hormoneheads, but Husson – more forgiving Hansen-Løve than forbidding
Breillat – nudges them and us both towards a healthier understanding of what
our bits do: for her, blossoming sexuality isn’t necessarily a crisis, just a
season we pass through.
Bang Gang (A Modern Love Story) is now playing in selected cinemas.
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