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Top 200 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2023: #63. Abdellatif Kechiche’s Mektoub My Love: Canto Tre

Published on January 16, 2023

Mektoub My Love: Canto Tre

The pandemic and the servings of humble pie eaten after his Cannes 2019 premiere debacle means that while he might be a jerk of a person, Abdellatif Kechiche will have the opportunity to get out of movie jail. Both the second and third instalments of Mektoub My Love will indeed see the day of light and we’d be lying if we said we weren’t extremely curious. Technically this part of a quadrilogy with Mektoub, My Love: Intermezzo not offering much to the promise of 2017’s Mektoub, My Love: Canto Uno. As the closing film – we don’t know what to expect but we imagine that Mektoub My Love: Canto Tre would zero in on select characters with a trajectory that is open-ended. Our money is on Mektoub My Love: Canto Duo offering a bit more depth. The brunt of a public outcry means the two films are unlikely candidates for Berlinale, Cannes or Venice selection.

Gist: This is the final chapter in the quadrilogy which began with Mektoub, My love: Canto Uno.

Release Date/Prediction: There’ll be some festival programmers who’ll be interested in both features.

Eric Lavallée

Eric Lavallée is the founder, CEO, editor-in-chief, film journalist and critic at IONCINEMA.com (founded in 2000). Eric is a regular at Sundance, Cannes and TIFF. He has a BFA in Film Studies at the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema. In 2013 he served as a Narrative Competition Jury Member at the SXSW Film Festival. He was an associate producer on Mark Jackson's This Teacher (2018 LA Film Festival, 2018 BFI London). In 2022 he served as a New Flesh Comp for Best First Feature at the 2022 Fantasia Intl. Film Festival. Current top films for 2022 include Tár (Todd Field), All That Breathes (Shaunak Sen), Aftersun (Charlotte Wells).