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Nora and Leo, 16, live in the same town, in the same suburbs, go to the same highschool, but everything opposes them: their social backgrounds, their families religions, their everyday lives. Yet, they fall in love at first sight. But from a theft accusation bringing into conflict their respective families, their love story will have to face a series of trials and dramas. 

Unifrance 

• In high school, a budding passion brings them together, but their families keep them apart… While taking up the eternal motif of Romeo and Juliet, this drama is distinguished by a successful anchoring in today’s reality, with a Muslim clan against a bourgeois cell, an education that destroys freedom on the one hand and racist prejudices on the other…
  Translated from Télérama 

• It was enough for Philippe Lioret to remake “Romeo and Juliet” in a suburban town of Paris to paint a giant canvas, that of French society in 2023 with almost all its problems: from unemployment to communitarianism, from racism to fear of terrorism, from the cruelty of the labour market to the temptation of extremes (“There are other lists”). If the first film seen in 2023 sets the tone for the entire cinema year, it will be a very beautiful one.
  Translated from « Un point c’est (pas) tout » 

• Philippe Lioret updates the powerful tragic romanticism of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet in a contemporary social film. The pure young lovers come up against the equally powerful hatred of their families, in a fractured France.
  Translated from Dernières Nouvelles d’Alsace 

• French Film Festival in the Czeck Republic 2023 
• Istanbul FF – 2023 
• Helvetia French FF- 2022 
• Tübingen/Stuttgart International French-language FF – 2023 
• Unifrance Rendez-Vous in Paris- 2023