Our Eternal Summer

Lise is 18 and spends her days with her gang of friends on a beach in Marseille. But when her best friend drowns, her carefree spirit is shattered. Lise realizes that nothing lasts forever and that she must be reborn... Émilie Aussel’s modest drama echoes a situation the director experienced herself when she was a teenager. A group of friends’ spends their summer vacation as they finish high school and get ready to move on to their adult lives, just to have one of them disappear into the sea; the film poetically looks at the effects on them, individually and collectively.

Keywords

  • Creatives: Debut Films
  • French Exclusive Fiction
  • Sooner Exclusives
  • Sooner Exclusives: Stories that Matter
  • Topic: Mental Health
  • mourning
  • summer
  • teen

Actors

  • Agathe Talrich
  • Marcia Feugeas
  • Matthieu Lucci
  • Idir Azougli
  • Nina Villanova

Director

  • Emilie Aussel

Drama


1h 15min


16

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France
2022
Immerse yourself in the summer of a carefree teenager who suddenly loses her best friend and realizes that nothing lasts forever.

Immerse yourself in the summer of a carefree teenager who suddenly loses her best friend and realizes that nothing lasts forever.


Lise is 18 and spends her days with her gang of friends on a beach in Marseille. But when her best friend drowns, her carefree spirit is shattered. Lise realizes that nothing lasts forever and that she must be reborn...


Émilie Aussel’s modest drama echoes a situation the director experienced herself when she was a teenager. A group of friends’ spends their summer vacation as they finish high school and get ready to move on to their adult lives, just to have one of them disappear into the sea; the film poetically looks at the effects on them, individually and collectively.

Cast & Crew