Maxime and Melanie are 15 years old and kiss each other constantly. She reveals a sexual distaste for him, and he scolds her for not telling him sooner. They love each other like two teenagers, madly, and their spontaneity soon brings them up against the reality of pregnancy. Melanie is pregnant, and Maxime, who initially seems upset, induces her to pursue the above-mentioned new life project. Their dreams seem unbreakable to reality until their parents are informed of the situation. Melanie's mother, very young and with a biographical background too similar to her daughter's, will make a very strong decision to induce her to reflect, while Maxime's family, will be more complicit in their decisions. The pregnancy progresses, and the young 15-year-old tries to give structure to her future by participating in the selection for a major soccer team in the role of goalkeeper. The latest ultrasound reveals the sex of the unborn child while some major upheaval again engages Melanie's decision-making range. After all, the choice is hers alone, and the father cannot change the fate that sees him, despite his dedication and care, guardian of prior responsibilities.

An immense film deals extremely incisively with a theme already known to the general public.

Can choice be spontaneous where social and cultural changes counsel otherwise? Can adult reflection be expected in two teenagers who lack any life experience?

To what extent can or should one intervene for the sake of one's children?

Is it okay to put them in front of their choices without lingering with overly protective love?

The responsibility of bringing a child into the world is always very intrusive, especially where majority is still far to come with the risks and changes that growing up in those years entails.

Senez's debut work, the film is a strong, at times violent portrait of an age in search of dimension. Surprising, realistic, incisive, the subject matter delves into all the complex cruelties that adolescence entails.

Between fragility, recklessness, a-perception of risk, the need for love and recognition, a difficult, chaotic, impetuous, absurd, magically insane age is portrayed.

Everything is perfect, the interpretations, the dialogue, the dreams, the realism, the vision.

No trivial sentimentality crowns the radicality of the bewilderment; nothing is superfluous rather everything is relentlessly necessary.

Without wishing to pass an ethical judgment, everything is right in this film and in the right place.

Authenticity is the real protagonist, light and incomprehensible, banal and elusive, helpless and violent as only adolescence can be. Of the maternal is the choice of fatherhood the consequence of the first...

A film about which it is difficult to stop talking, which is necessary to see, because it tells without hesitation about passion, the discovery of sexuality, often anticipated, which reveals the search for an absolute to dominate, mingling with it. It tells of the states of mind, of intimacy , of pain steeped in the desire to play; of the vital imprudence of those who cannot stop, at least at that age.

An artistic surprise that will not hesitate to make people talk about it.

23-Jun-2023 by Beatrice