Summer of 85

Summer of 85 is set in Normandy in 1985. Alexis, sixteen, is on holiday at the coast when his boat capsizes in a storm and an older teenager, David, rescues him. The two become close very quickly, and what begins as friendship turns into Alexis's first experience of love. The bond between the cautious, inexperienced Alexis and the confident David shapes the weeks that follow, though the intensity of the relationship carries its own complications. The film was directed and written by François Ozon, and it is the fifteenth of the twenty films he has directed in chronological order, following By the Grace of God and preceding Everything Went Fine. Félix Lefebvre plays Alexis and Benjamin Voisin plays David, with Philippine Velge, Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, Melvil Poupaud and Isabelle Nanty in supporting roles.

The production was a Belgian-French one, made for a budget of about seven million dollars, and it took roughly four million dollars at the worldwide box office, less than its cost. On IMDb it holds a rating of 6.9 from around sixteen thousand votes, while on TMDB it stands at 7.4 from just under a thousand. A critics' rating of 6.6 from 102 reviews sits slightly below the IMDb figure.