Hanzo’s comments:
FYI: Adult star Jodi Taylor is starring in a new French movie as Jessica Pennington (birth name?), sequel to the fairly controversial-even-for-France Mektoub My Love, the director made Blue is the Warmest Color – she quit porn but looks like she has some nice nude & sex scenes in this.
IMDb summary:
Amin returns to Sète, still dreaming of cinema. An American producer gets interested in his project, “Essential Principles of Universal Existence,” wanting his wife Jess as the lead. But fate, capricious, imposes its own rules.
Background, per IMDb:
In 2017, it was revealed that director Abdellatif Kechiche had decided to split his Mektoub project in two or three movies, which caught his producers (Canal+, Pathé Films and France Télévisions) by surprise, as their contract only referred to producing one movie. They thus decided to withdraw their funds for the post-production. Kechiche had to auction off his Palme d’Or to fund the post-production for Mektoub, My Love: Canto Uno (2017) and finish the movie, which he eventually presented at the 2017 Venice International Film Festival. With the new funds, he was able to finish post-production on the second opus, Mektoub, My Love: Intermezzo (2019), and present it at the 2019 Cannes Film Festival, but the music rights issues, the drama at Cannes and the bad reviews prevented him from releasing the second movie and moving forward with this saga for several years. As of December 2025, Mektoub, My Love: Intermezzo (2019) has been indefinitely shelved, but he managed to finish and present the third opus, Mektoub, My Love: Canto Due (2025), at the 2025 Locarno Film Festival, and it was released in French theaters in early December 2025, nine years after filming it.
Is this the 2nd or third film? I remember that the 2nd film had a lot of sex but never got a distributor as it was MASSIVELY BOOED by the audiences and destroyed by the critics. Some said it was worse than porn.
The third. Intermezzo is the second one with an unsimulated sex scene with Ophelie Bau.
There was supposed to be 4 films but they got stuck in development hell thanks to the pandemic putting on the backburner this long and they ran outta money as result so they scrapped the 4th film which would have been the finale called canto true